And what happens if Iran doesn't fold like Venezuela? Then the gates are open to trade in whatever is not dollars. Which means that the US economy will die.

that's not what the article said:

> They turned to showing ads in ChatGPT, something Sam Altman once called a “last resort”, while Anthropic is crushing them

Some kind of artisan "proper" quality work, compared to cheap enterprise AI slop.

I ask because I have seen huge variations in load time. Sometimes I had to wait seconds until being able to type. Nowadays it seems better though.

There should be nothing submitted, except maybe anonymous telemetry metrics at that point.

I do agree that there is a possibility that some defence deployment agreements may not longer be desirable for America, and that they are in no way obligated to perpetually defend Europe. NATO had specific goals, which could be considered fulfilled even, long ago.

So for example regarding the Ukraine invasion, there is (or has been lol) an expectation of support from America, both because of some vague NATO-proxy implication or simply due to historical ties. And the Idaho mum not wanting to pay for some far away war is valid, but... we must add two things into this equation. One, an implicit and practical part of the agreement has historically been that the protected allies spend a large amount of their budget on American suppliers. And two, that at least in the past, this was a huge deterrence against any communist-like regime changes that have directly ejected any American neo-colonialism wealth extractions.

Perhaps, today allies are spending less, and the threat of communism has more or less collapsed. So America might be much better off without paying for foreign security. But all this really was never in place out of some noble spirit of world peace, that's all I'm saying.

PD.: a hundred percent agree on Europe being too slow and incapable of reacting to any of this, and embarassing itself. As a European, I hope we can slowly get out of the whining and towards some kind of proper self-defence pact, as many member states actually do have very capable militaries, just individually and not coordinated. I'm not saying, as advanced or experienced as the USA, but if you'd make a "top list" we wouldn't be helpless near the middle or bottom.

1. The USA has put up military infrastructure around the world by its own volition. 2. The USA is the richest country in the world.

> The same way that a farmer considers it in his pecuniary interest to grow and sell vegetables, and we are vicarious beneficiaries in that we have access to affordable food we can eat.

So what is the handout here, exactly? Your argument is an oxymoron.

Very interesting. I wonder how much good a publicly transparent trading system would do. And what downsides there are, of course.

It's an age old epic: tell the privileged that "actually, you're being exploited of your hard work and innate intelligence". It let's you sleep at night.

So what does Deno offer now, exactly? The free parts just sound like a pretext to pull you into some paid solutions.

It can be hard to run a company, even harder to make a buck, but at the same time we can still be allowed to say how much they suck at it.