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Your $200 subscription is a major net loss for them. The vast majority that pays for that would cancel in a heartbeat the moment they had to pay API prices. Which may or may not be profitable, I am not entirely sure. But for the sake of argument, let's assume that it is.
And they will be 800 trilion ARR in a couple of years, following that same rate! 8 quadrillion by 2029!
> When you are growing so fast, you don't need to make a net profit. You just need to make sure your unit economics are good - which it seems like they are given reports that their gross margins are at 60-70%.
If their margins were anywhere near this good, they wouldn't need to raise so much money so often.
If you create a machine that turns 1 dollar into 3 dollars, you don't dillute your ownership of the machine, you use your fabulous profits to expand your machine's capabilities.
It takes a CTO with cojones to actually own your infrastructure.
You took the time to comment this, but apparently didn't take the time to read the whole comment you are responding to.
They are replacing Office365.
There's certainly no shortage of people believing in AI hype.
Eh, once you have built your grid in solar and wind, you don't really depend on the countries that sold solar panels and wind turbines for you. Those last for a long time, long enjoy that you can even spin up manufacturing yourself; it's not really something inscrutable.
There may be an argument that depending on the state of the world that raw materials to manufacture some of those things may become more complicated to access, but that is true even for countries that currently make those.
> If you want clean, abundant, cheap, secure energy, invest in nuclear.
Absolutely, yes.
Energy should be abundant and diversified.
Especially for a git service, something what would will be eminently used by software developers, who mostly can speak English anyway.
I find GLM5.3 so much better than Sonnet it is not even funny.
Sonnet behaves like a cheap model while being very expensive.
But that statement would be bullshit.
Ubisoft respected my wishes to not play their shitty games by not even supporting my OS of choice.
Even calling Omarchy a distro seems to be a stretch. The best description I're read is that it is a Hyprland setup for Arch. As far as what a Linux distro can be, this is pretty mediocre. The sort of thing that would get an HN thread, see minor traction, and take the backseat.
But, quite a lot of people seem interested in hyping it. I suspect the reason is just because the dude behind it is not shy about being an ethnonationalist, "great replacement theory" asshole, etc.
Quite a few people here are very fond of those talking points. Thinking about brown people being ethnically cleansed makes them all tingly inside. So, they really want to talk about Omarchy as a proxy.
It's important to lay the blame on who is actually pushing this crap.
It's little coincidence that the EU parliament, who actually represents the people, that keep shooting shit like this down.
I still have to use Claude Code at work and after getting used to Pi I feel I'm always fighting against it.
Maybe the way I enjoy working with LLMs just works better with Pi.
Iceland has to comply with the EU because it chose to belong to the EEA.
Iceland has to comply with EU because it is in the EEA. The situation of Iceland is completely different than the situation of the UK.
The UK has to comply with the EU as much as Nicaragua, New Zealand, Namibia, etc.
I was explaining to the commenter above me that Iceland already has to comply to EU regulations, because he seemed unaware of that.
Unsurprisingly, every thread on HN that mention EU seems to attract all sorts of people that have absolutely no idea of what the hell they are talking about.
Iceland is in the EEA. It already has to comply with pretty much all EU regulations (with some exemptions, such as their fishing thing). It is also a part of Schegen, freedom of movement, etc.
Unlike other countries, it doesn't get to vote on those regulations, so it doesn't even get the veto power.
I honestly think it may make more sense for Iceland to not be a full EU member, the fishing industry may be too important for a fairly small island nation, etc.
But it has nothing to do with the reasons you fantasized about.
The way the EU is composed right now, it is designed to be kneecapped by the national governments every time.
For larger countries is much easier to deal with Europe when it's a bunch of small countries butting heads with their neighbors.
The main problem with it, is that when you vote on national elections, typically you are concerned with local issues. Housing, healthcare, transportation, employment, immigration, etc.
Nobody is really thinking "who will this party behave on the EU level?" Then they do shit like this and hide behind "we have to comply with the EU".
Iceland complies with EU because it belongs to the EEA. It has nothing to do with "precence of EU across the sea".
UK doesn't have to comply with th EU. It has to if it t wants to be able to export stuff there.
Other two countries in EEA are Norway and Liechtenstein.
Rather embarrassing indeed.
The boiler is not huge, but it has enough water for 2 or 3 people showering in a row, depending on how quickly that happens and what other things sre using hot water now.
It doesn't take super long to have hot water again, but it depends on how cold it is outside. On colder days it obviously take longer.
> HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute
Oh ffs.
Hell, Nuclear is 1940's technology. Are you telling me that the famously industrious Dutch are unable to produce energy without pumping gas out of Groningen?
The only minor issue is during winter months, if the daughter and the wife shower one right after the other, it takes some 40 minutes for the boiler to have hot water again.