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If money is the only moat, you'll see race to bottom till ROCE goes down to gsec returns.

A chat is expensive to run

Is it? A mid-size server can support couple of million of users. Storage of large files may cost something but not the chat service is super simple and cheap to run.

my wife and I are not drug addicts or alcoholics

Yet, you still have two years.

I think OP meant network is private. That also is wrong, it is semi govt.

NPCI is a public sector company with partial ownership between 46 banks. Its costs is trivial compared to savings and efficiency it brings in overall system. Cash handling is very costly for entire chain. Printing by RBI, its logistics by banks and handling by vendors.

Apart from that it is formalization of informal economy, govt has better visibility, tax evasion is difficult and people outside financial services can now use it.

Also, like Rupay has charging for transactions abover a certain threshold of value like 10000 will cover some of the costs without reducing the incentive of system.

Think of vaccines, small cost for big savings elsewhere.

Anyone aware of any official/private efforts in China or Russia to digitize or republish these books. Nowdays, finding these books particularly in languages like Hindi is very difficult.

I have very fond memory of these books. We are from lower middle class family in India. My dad was fond of books. Western books were costly, but Soviet and Chinese books were of high quality and cheap. So we used to get loads of them from book fair.

'Issue' for who?

Better way is to provide a Claude.md with strong stylistic guidelines and loc requirements. Else it will be a chicken and mouse game of what is from AI.

Open models hosted in Cloud???

Need them for trolls to move around.

after a weekend reboot

Isn't new outlook lives in the cloud? So this shouldn't be a usecase.

duckdb is so nice coupled with claude code

Can you expand upon it? You mean claude code use it to store its memory/state or it can do business queries using DuckDB.

It is an OLAP db. So you can have a pipeline storing data in parquet files in S3. And then use DuckDB to directly query on it.

I think people overrate 'local' part of open Models vs private. With OpenAI my choice is 1. I have to use them, even if they decide to double the cost or work with govt to blow my country. My $5 server can't run GLM but I have choice from many providers based on my requirements of cost, data residency, political alignment.

Models don't know anything across iterations yet.

Can you expand. They have both context and memory?

Collectively Europe has talent and money to support it. Whole point of sovreignity around it is to have inhouse the talent and capacity to have essential resources even if it can be have for cheap from other nations/alliances.

That is why people lament at idea of being completely dependent on Russian gas, US tech or Chinese manufacturing.

Gorilla by Facebook had this. Value is stored as delta and time as delta of delta.

You force the founder to give up their private property just because it is valuable?

That's how taxes work.

Religion is one of the best at marketing and fund-raising since millenias. Why is it surprising that they adapt to new tech? They have done it for printing press before that.

If that is the question. Those customers anyway won't be using any LLM or cloud services in first place. If you are a jornalist investigating nations, stay away from everything.

Salt water fish can process sea water, no point in evolving for saltier brine if you have oceans of 3% water.

Hopefully someone has asked right questions and removed confusing answers/hallucinations.

In terms of biomass humans are much larger than ants.

Are these "pure" Sony or from new JV with TCL?

Those were John Ive era laptops where form ruled function. Poor thermal, less ports, less keys were all features.

Erin Brockovich is popular enough that it justifies duplicacy of efforts, amount of visibility her name will brings in much more value than cost of building it.

During Mao/cultural revolution for all the bad, two good things were great focus on K-12 education and reducing religious fundamentalism (curbing religious powerhouses). Both of them are now biting India, alongwith standard problems of corruption that plague most poor democracies.

Come to an Indian city. You'll have cars, 2w, auto, cows coming from 7 directions everywhere.

Open Source ASML EUV. But will wipe off trillions from US stocks so 401k may not like that.