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Anyone can declare anything.

You think China just lets US law enforcement do investigations on their territory without their consent??

Israel's conflict with Iran, maybe. Israel's conflict with Hamas is irrelevant though and that's what people are protesting.

That doesn't really answer the question.

why do we (residents of western countries) pay attention to Israel? There's nothing relevant to our lives happening there. It's not more relevant than Ethiopia or Sudan.

Why are we paying so much attention to what's happening in Israel then?

What do you care about the value of the house you're living in?

What did you do to deserve the massive raise in value of land since you bought that house besides buying early?

Any private entity has that right though.

I, as a person, can decide I won't do business with a company that uses Anthropic models for whatever reason. I can even decide I won't do business with a company that relies on suppliers that use Anthropic.

This right applies to private companies too. Like Walmart could set contract terms that their suppliers aren't allowed to use AWS. The suppliers are free to accept those terms or not.

Is it a good thing for society that Amazon grew that large?

That's a common issue in orgs where sales are incentivized based on size of contract without regard for the profitability of the contract.

See also: selling features that don't exist and cost more to implement and maintain than the contract is worth.

It's a contract, you're free to negotiate?

If you agree to those terms knowing it's unrealistic, you're agreeing to give away your service for free.

> Which internet provider can deliver reliable access to remote regions than Starlink?

Why do remote regions matter? No one relevant lives there.

> Why would you take your phone with you when you run?

So you can listen to music? And most people don't have a smart watch.

It's fairly common to see people running with a phone strapped to their arm.

Are Mac users more likely to pay? Likely yes.

Are the total number of Mac users who pay higher than the total number of Windows users who pay? I kind of doubt it. Windows market share is still much higher than MacOS.

> Android only really was competitive for a very short window of time

Complete non-sense. iOS and Android are equivalent. Users do not chose Android or iOS because one or the other is better.

It's just brand loyalty, status signalling and ecosystem lock-in that creates enough friction that people don't bother.

I wonder if that changes in countries where the main language is written right to left?

Completely irrelevant to my point.

The point was just this: you don't need $100 trillion to actually exist for that market cap to be possible.

> Like spacex isn't going to be the world's first 100 trillion dollar company because there isn't that much money.

That doesn't really matter. As we saw with crypto valuations, market cap is just number of shares * last price.

If you have 1 trillion shares and one is traded for $100 you have a 100 trillion market cap.

So the rate goes from say 4% to 4.16%? That's still unimpressive.

If you mean from 4% to 8%, then that's actually raising by 100%

Maybe I'm missing something but when would the 500 geese instances ever be stack allocated in Rust? That comparison seems unfair, the lifetime of that kind of object isn't going to be compatible with stack allocation.

Allocations are really really cheap in Java by the way, so I don't get how 500 allocations would even be an issue.

That wasn't what was implied then. If old media continues playing then it's still "forever".

> BluRay no, because your player's keys can be revoked when you pop in a new disc

Wait what? How? How is that possibly legal?

And who is the customer?

Healthcare market is completely distorted. Price isn't linked to value because the person that uses a service is usually not the person directly paying for it. Worse, the price usually isn't known upfront, so no one is making a rational decision based on "value".

How does KYC tell a company whether you have bad intentions or not? Let's say you work in a consultancy doing security research. On paper that looks good right?

How easy would it be for criminal orgs to setup legitimate looking fronts to pass these KYC checks?

What makes the diagnosis "worth" $100? Right now it requires a highly paid human which sets a floor on the cost.

If there's competition from LLMs it's going to drive down the cost.

Symlinks are a pain if you're on Windows, I'd rather not bother with them.

> But the sentiment of nuclear depends purely on which party you vote for, I don't think the language itself has an impact.

People aren't really partisan like that in Switzerland. They'll happily elect people from one party then vote against the party on specific issues in referendums or initiatives.

For something like nuclear, people who vote for green party might be mostly aligned with the party because it's a key issue for them while people who vote for center or right parties won't really care what the party recommends.

Switzerland is not part of the European economic area, aka EEA.

MRIs by themselves no, but depending on what you want to actually see you need to inject a contrast agent which is probably not something you want to do too frequently.

> pressing up on a new console doesn't bring you a command from history, which Linux terminals and 3rd party Windows ones have been doing for decades, even Powershell does that.

I'm wondering if you're confusing Windows terminal with cmd.exe?

Windows terminal is not the shell. It's a terminal emulator. You run a shell inside of the terminal, for example you can run... Powershell.

Command history is a feature of the shell.

What good is advertising if they can't actually sell the product?

Serving Opus 4.8 isn't worth a trillion+ valuation.

The valuation of the AI labs is based on continual improvements of their models.

Open weight models are going to catch up to Opus 4.8 and at that point the model is a pure commodity.