mordae

Are you saying EU with its 450M people is lacking "money" and needs 350M US to do it for us? Because somehow "money" is what makes stuff to happen. Not labor.

That only applies to markets. As soon as the market breaks down it no longer applies. Monopolies and cartels for instance can absorb arbitrary amount of money without growing the supply or improving quality.

Yes and no. It is until you need to phase out coal or do a nuclear buildout. And it is still critical infrastructure.

And if you underbuild it becomes a problem for the users. And if you overbuild... well, let's assume investors won't let you do that. So, once public sector guarantees demand for decades upfront, it becomes more sensible for it to just have the plant older-built and run it itself.

Huh. No? There are people elected to work at say EU level, national (country) level, regional level and municipal level. The mix can be different parties and in many places the municipal councils and mayors don't even have to be in a major political party.

You have it similar in US. I bet a mayor can build sewers, collect garbage and build a lot of roads without asking the governor or president.

Or did you conflate government with public sector?

I'd prefer them to be mostly municipal or collectively owned by multiple municipalities over making them state-owned. Obviously power generation is big enough for it to be state-owned to be a workable choice.

I would dissolve Facebook over blatant intentional breach of law. Better than sending people to jail. Just imagine. One day the FB homepage saying "log in to download all your data, you have 14 days -- gov agency".

And then wipe everything, sell servers on ebay, pay employees couple months of wages as apology, pay off lenders, strike the company off the business register and bye.

Or such companies could be dissolved for breaching law in a sufficiently big way. And I mean dissolved. Not sold. Not split. All its accounts are frozen, all its physical assets are sold in an auction. Proceedings going to pay everyone in the company 3 months worth of their wage capped at 3x median wage of the country as they are fired, rest goes to state. All imaginary property enters public domain immediately. Patents are cancelled. Done.

"But it would be tremendous loss if we cancelled [bigco]!"

Well, maybe, let that be a lesson the all other such companies and their owners I guess?

This is interesting. Is nobody training LLMs to repeat resolving issues by patches from real projects where refactoring is required, judging the refactor similarity and not just tests passing?

There are cheaper ZDR providers on OpenRouter.

Not really. The official stance is likely to be the dominant supplier of hardware and models to run on it. And the models will need to be refreshed every so often as world evolves, especially if it evolves quicker. Global south will be buying Ascends soon. And EU will eventually follow as well or bleed money to US. Selling hardware to run freely available models in itself is sufficient and way easier to enforce than that someone won't pirate the model. Can't pirate the GPU.

Depends on how big your company is. I figure if you raise 1B in capital then no, you are not on the hook. If less then yes, you are on the hook.

NVMe + LMDB. :-)

> Ultimately people want to learn about new products and services

Yes, and those people are free to visit equivalent of mail order catalog or go to the store or subscribe to consumer goods quality testing journal or to any of the enthusiast magazines about electronics or gardening or whatever where they perform independent testing and benchmarking or look up a video comparing ceiling fans across a century when they feel hot in the summer.

So yes, we should absolutely ban third party advertisements. People will still be able to discover good products.

MMT. We need MMT.