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Anectodal, but I use a Lenovo Thinkpad on a personal capacity, and a MacBook at work (so that was the "corporate purchase")

Given a choice, I would rather have the Thinkpad at work as well.

> US

> reciprocity

Funny joke. Everybody laughs. Curtains.

They did make a good launching pad for him.

I love this sort of reply.

Yes, the bastion of free market capitalism is no much different than the evil communist countries.

When Chinese companies do it, then it is evil price dumping.

When US companies do it, then it is just good business strategy, investing in growth for future profits.

Which just proves GDP is a low IQ metric to measure how good a country is to live in.

I certainly would rather live places like Mallorca or Donostia than in many places that are ahead of Spain in the silly GDP game.

Speaking of low IQ, it's pretty amusing to read that someone thinks that Spain came out unscathed from the events of 1930s and 1940s.

I know. The urban legend would still not be a thing.

Nuclear Gandhi would never have been a thing.

If the US wanted to have more military control in Denmark, it wouldn't need this sort of ridiculous dance and a new deal.

It always could put military bases in Greenland. NATO was a thing, and Denmark never really bothered itself much with US military bases there. Greenland was not annexed by the US.

This is pretty much the same shit with the Iran war, the US now is scrambling to convince Iran to open the strait of Hormuz, just to get things in the same state they were before the war started.

> So with the re-newed interest and a willigness to seriously mess up the NATO alliance - what does the US want in Greenland this time around?

This assumes the US has a plan. It's a bold assumption.

That's precisely what I expected. That people would pop up defending US atrocities by equating them with the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah.

And you know what? You're right. Those are all terrorist organizations.

There are some terrorist states that indiscriminately kill civilians though, such as Israel and the USA.

The worst thing people would do is surrendering in those cases.

Except Switzerland and EEA exist?

The UK could absolutely pursue some form of association with the EU if it so desired, it doesn't need to be in the EU for increased cooperation. The problem is that the UK people overseeing brexit wanted very much to cherry-pick only what was advantageous for the UK only and cede on nothing that the bloc desired.

As for Canada, we will have to wait and see. Is it a Switzerland style deal (an endless torrent of asterisks)? Is it something similar to EEA but lighter? Something that is more focused on trade and mutual defense and less on freedom of movement and financial ties?

Probably the main advantage of the EU is that it is much stronger at negotiating these sorts of agreements than any of its individual countries would have been.

It is a deal, both sides bring something to the table and try to negotiate what comes from that.

Eh, as much as I might dislike the government of my country, I think I believe I would hate a lot more the country that decided it was a good idea to blow schoolgirls from my country into minced meat.

> If the US military was unethical, it wouldn't have lost in Afghanistan

You can be unethical and still profoundly incompetent.

> Highly unlikely an entire chain of military personnel knew it was a school and was like, "yeah get em good, and lets see when they come scrambling in for their kids corpses".

When you phrase it like that, I firmly believe that's exactly what happened.

Wealth, like gravity, distorts everything around it with excessive concentration.

It matters little how wealth is created. No one has to lose anything for the excessive concentration of wealth to cause the lives of everyone to be worse.

What I find surprising is that DS Flash can do it at all.

I love DS flash, it is an amazing workhorse to implement plans created by more robust models (such as GLM). But a more fair comparison would be of DS Flash with GLM Flash.

I still question it. It's very light on details by just casually dropping they have 80% margins. I smell bullshit on this.

It is certainly not above them to play accounting tricks to pretend to be anywhere near profitable.

If you create a machine that can turn a dollar into 5, you don't dillute ownership of the machine, you use your fabulous profits to expand production. Anthropic, on the other hand, raises money like crazy, and seems desperate to IPO.

> before accounting for revenue shared with distribution partners, including Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab, and the cost of training its model, the newspaper said.

"We are profitable when we ignore our costs".

I wonder what other funny strategy they may employ to claim 80% margins.

> I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life.

Ok, flagging this as misinformation.

This shit again?

This is pure, unadulterated, D.O.P. bullshit. That I see it making the rounds here so often and so many people buying into this crap makes me relieved that no one in real life knows that I have an HN account. I would be ashamed to admit I have one at this point after reading the crap people here believe in.

By all means, I don't disagree. I just have a policy of stressing the point that EU is not a country when people comment on it as of it had the powers of a national government.

In fact, as someone that lives in one of those countries, I am actually viewing the events in the middle east with optmism. The closure of Hormuz and Bab-el Mandeb are the sort of harsh push that we needed to get out of our collective asses and cut our dependency on a resource that is in every angle you look at terrible for those who depend on it.

I am not naive, and I know that it is not possible to cut it entirely (oil is used for more than fuel). But if we stop depending on it for vehicles, electricity generation, heating and ao on, it will make a huge difference already.

Then your comment is sort of pointless too. Unless you want to argue "every country in the world that does not produce enough oil and does not have enough refining capacity for said oil should electrify".

Then singling out EU countries becomes silly.

EU is not a country.

Taxation on crude oil and its byproducts is largely for each member state to decide, as is electrification policy.

In some cases the EU steps in; for example with CO2 emission quotas, electrification targets, and largely regulating how countries operate in between them (for example, if France sells energy to Spain, it has to follow some bloc regulations if I am not mistaken).

I find it somewhat amusing how people insist in commenting on EU as if it was something it is not.

> It's not possible to fight OpenAI or Anthropic's engineering teams

And yet, I find Pi so much better to work with than Claude Code.

> OpenAI would have no incentive to taint its first math announcement of this magnitude if it knew it were "plagiarizing" another person's work.

That people still think OpenAI has, in the Year of Our Lord 2026, any integrity left is baffling.

Sounds like a problem with your provider, or with how your harness sends requests.

All DeepSeek models have 384k maximum output tokens:

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

DeepSeek user here.

I very much prefer they don't raise prices.

I used a lot V4 flash to implement plans built by other models, and it was honestly top notch. The thing was a workhorse, and I got none of the isuses you describe.

I was mostly using DeepSeek on Pi, connecting to their API directly (not some third party provider).

I honestly have more issues steering Sonnet properly.