bogeholm

So much this.

It's like prosecuting the asphalt guys who paved the road the bank robbers used

Let's say you are a software company based in country C (company) and offer services to users in country U (users), only over the internet, and having no physical assets in country U. You could imagine Microsoft offering Office 365 to customers in Liechtenstein, for example.

GP's point is that whenever you sell or offer something to users in U, you have to abide by U's laws in doing so - no matter whether you did that all while sitting at your desk in country C.

Whether or not enforcement or liability is realistic is up to the relationship between U and C I guess - my guess is France and Switzerland are on pretty good terms.

“Then preheat the oven to three fifty, and give that spoon a lick …”

No high hopes for how that recipe turns out with Siri in the kitchen then

I’ll subscribe to your Sphoophtify service immediately

> Cloud models […] don't consume so much power/generate heat

I do realize the cloud is just someone else’s computer right? Power goes in, tokens and heat come out - just in another place

Back when we were kids, we would get 0 tokens/sec _if we were lucky_

Didn’t know, thanks

Unless, of course, said owner cared for the environment

Mercedes has some interesting EV options, and they have some models at the moment that are not necessarily that expensive. Through the grapevine I overheard something about surplus production due to mandate to build a certain number of EVs.

If you don’t want/need a new car, the used car market in Germany is pretty active with EQAs and EQBs.

> why is the energy price an issue

Electricity is sold on the market. If you live next to a data center you can choose not to use any services enabled by that center, but you cannot choose to pay non-datacenter prices for the electricity to charge your car or run your household

3 years ago I was in pharma in Europe. Back then (a political lifetime ago), the FDA had an excellent reputation and was considered a kind of gold standard.

Get your new drug approved by the FDA, and ~50+ countries would follow more or less on autopilot.

This wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, because as far as I know, they really _were_ that good.

Do we have many countries around where wind is not a thing?

Yeah, um…

That might have changed somewhat, recently.

Just Wiki Linus Torvalds my friend:

> Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland

> In 2004, Torvalds moved with his family from Silicon Valley to Portland, Oregon.