Government beauracracy, which provides things like democratic oversight, environmental protection, enforcing power grid standards and interoperability, construction regulations, etc? Would you rather we just didn't have those things?

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rangestransform a day ago | parent | next [-]

It should be mind numbingly trivial to stand up a solar farm and ram through some transmission lines in the desert, and mind numbingly hard to set up a temporary gas generator. We needed regulatory exemptions yesterday for clean energy, public transit, and EV charging.

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TitaRusell a day ago | parent [-]

Oh it would be if AI actually made money. Turns out all those companies cheap out and don't actually want to put down the 20 billion for a nuclear reactor- which should be trivial if they were really the future!

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SR2Z a day ago | parent | prev [-]

They have billions of dollars, they're short on TIME.

They want computers in racks now and (rightfully imo) look at yearslong approval processes with disgust. Look at Ashburn, VA - they extract loads of money from these companies, and they keep getting investments because constructing new datacenters is easy thanks to state laws.

It's not about the money here it's about the time.

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bigbadfeline a day ago | parent [-]

> They want computers in racks now and (rightfully imo) look at yearslong approval processes with disgust.

Disgust of the rules for me but not for thee? The rest of us have to follow the rules, but not them.

How about disgust for actual pollution? They could build clean, quiet and fast if "> It's not about the money it's about the time"

It doesn't add up, like at all.

	▲	consensus1 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They don't care if you have to follow the rules either. Why don't you get mad about the fact that you are forced to obey all these idiotic rules instead of somebody else finding a way around them.

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consensus1 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

All of them are good except for democratic oversight. Those other things are beneficial and cheap and easy to comply with. It's the democratic oversight of what gets built and where that is nothing more than a giveaway to worthless bureaucrats, lawyers, activists, and NIMBYs.

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tavavex a day ago | parent [-]

The alternative to democracy is wealthy guys who can buy their way into anything being done forcing their will upon the "worthless" rest of the populace, as you called them. If only billionaires weren't held up by the monsters that are activists protesting their activities and lawyers acting as a check on their legal power.

Let's be clear, democracy isn't perfect and it usually isn't fast. But to date, it's the only system that has any hope of keeping the most powerful in check. Rejecting democracy is begging for someone who doesn't care about you to tell you what's right and wrong.

	▲	consensus1 a day ago \| parent [-]
		I get that anyway. It's just that in democracy it's a mob of millions of idiots who don't care about me. I guess I'd rather have it be the billionaires because at least they want to build things and advance our infrastructure and technology.

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malfist a day ago | parent | prev [-]

You're not thinking like a techbro. My startup shouldn't have to adhere to those regulations, but everyone else should. In fact, once my startup gets established we should make even more regulations