Because the other big expense in a datacenter: electricity. Texas has really cheap electricity compared to the rest of the country, sitting at second cheapest after North Dakota.
This site is Neo-nazi propaganda. Dude's trying to sell his "courses" (read: podcast) where he espouses a... concerning list of philosophers.
Plato (like every philosophy discussion in the western world, nothing too bad yet...)
Nietzsche (thanks to his sister, very associated with the Nazis)
Heidegger (literally a Nazi, as in, card-carrying member of the Nazi party)
Strauss (close ties to the Nazi party, acting as their head of the Reich Music Chamber)
Schmitt (literally a Nazi, as in, card-carrying member of the Nazi party, and part of the government at the time)
Dugin (Nazi sympathizer, extreme far right asshole, in bed with Putin)
That's the entire list. If it was 1 or 2 of those, mixed in with a bunch of other philosophers who weren't Nazis, I wouldn't be so confident in calling it fascist. But it's not. The list of philosophers that Millerman espouses are basically a complete list of literal Nazi-aligned philosophers.
Literally the entire purpose of the law California passed, which Linux is responding to, is to preempt such laws: If someone says "we need identity verification because think of the kids looking at porn", it's now trivial to say "we already solved that problem, without deanonymizing everyone on the internet".
It's theory. The concern is for avoiding a (likely, IMO) scenario where the only real indication that someone cracked QC is one or more teams of researchers in the field going dark because they got pulled into some tight-lipped NSA project. If we wait until we have an unambiguous path to QC, it might well be too late.
To avoid the scenario where for a prolonged period of time the intelligence community has secret access to QC, researchers against that type of thing are incentivized to shout fire when they see the glimmerings of a possibly productive path of research.
> one or more teams of researchers in the field going dark
If the intelligence community is going to nab the first team that has a quantum computing breakthrough, does it actually help the public to speed up research?
It seems like an arms race the public is destined to lose because the winning team will be subsumed no matter what.
It's the same logic as any offensive technology: maybe the world would be a better place if we never invented the technology, but we can't risk our enemies having it while we don't, and even if they never develop it maybe it'll help us, and we're the good guys.
Luckily, in this particular arms race, all we the public need to do is swap encryption algorithms, and there's no risk of ending global civilization if we mess up. So we get the best of both worlds: Quantum computing for civilian purposes (simulations and whatnot), while none of the terrifying surveillance capabilities. We just need to update a couple of libraries.
This is true in this case, but in general complicated in the US. Since the executive branch is responsible for diplomacy, but only Congress can pass laws, there's a weird wiggle room where the Executive branch is completely on board with signing some treaty, but then when it comes time to actually implement it in any way that actually binds, Congress can refuse to do so.
It's one of the reasons why for a lot of the "everybody joins" treaties, a bunch of countries sign with a statement that they don't recognize the US as a signatory.
Shirts used to be expensive, but "nice clothes" expensive in today's money, not "1st/2nd most expensive thing most people own" type expensive. $200-$1000 in today's money, scaling to wages.
We most generally lump Mercantilism in with Feudalism. The transition to Capitalism came with the rise of Liberalism (not the American political definition, the political philosophy one), which involved a lot of revolutions.
For you personally, to solve this issue in particular? Use Firefox. Google is evil, and there's a good chunk of the Chrome team who are actively enemy combatants.
For the broader issue of not wanting to give even the information you'd need to choose to share to LinkedIn? Network the good ol' fashioned way: talking to random strangers in San Francisco bars.
Everyone involved in Chrome's most questionable decisions such as Manifest V3's anti-adblocking, the Topics API, etc, are not just working orthogonal to the people's interest, they are directly working against it. I couched my statement down from the entirety of the Chrome team because I hesitate to label "making constant, marginal feature additions that ultimately result in anti competitive behavior" openly malicious.
Everyone from the suit that made the ultimate calls down to the lowest code monkey who bugfixed such features are responsible for their choice to target the good, common user of the internet. I'm not asking for altruism, I just think people shouldn't choose to do evil, and that those who do anyway should be recognized as such.
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