The Sun is visible from Earth as well, the last time I checked.

In LEO you don't get power 24/7 because you are only 500km above the Earth. Yes the Sun is more attenuated on Earth but what we care about is $/W not raw wattage, and Earth certainly has cheaper $/W than space.

> - coms w/o interruption using existing infra

I'm perplexed how comms might be easier in space than on Earth where you can just run a cable.

> - Rideshare (SPX can build out capacity while other lifts pay some of the bill for lift)

On Earth you don't need to rideshare because you don't have to ride a rocket.

> - Nonregulation

Space is more regulated than Earth. The only way to get to space is via a rocket which is the same as an ICBM. Governments regulate the process of building ICBMs and what payloads can ride on them.

If you want non-regulation then go to international waters or find a bribable government.

> - Very low latency to "places of interest far from USA mountains"

The latency is not terrible in LEO but it's nowhere near as good as on Earth.

If you could pay a few space sherpas $100k to head up into LEO and service the thing, it would definitely be worth it.

This is Amazon prioritizing their 100% stake in AWS over their 20% stake in Anthropic. It's also possible that Amazon knows things that are not public.

The fact that Amazon is willing to report this despite owning shares in Anthropic and being close to a liquidation event points to whatever they found being actually serious.

In the case of the crypto export ban, the government was attempting to suppress the release of cryptographic research. For example, if a cryptographic researcher wrote a paper on a cipher and they included a definition of that cipher in the paper, that was an "export" of cryptography. This is very clearly a restraint on speech that violates the first amendment and after much legal wrangling the government agreed and the issue evaporated.

AI is different though because these models are private, so they cannot really be considered to be "speech". Although if it were an open model it would likely be protected speech to release it.

If you're using an unstable API they expect you to figure everything out yourself. It doesn't mean that they don't want you to use it though.

If you're using the Pi as a microcontroller that you can run Python on, then just get the cheapest Pi that meets your needs.

If you're using the Pi for computationally expensive tasks then pay more money and get the fast one.

Personally I have a Pi 5 and it's perfect for me because I want small size but high performance. People say "just buy a real computer" but that would be higher energy and larger footprint.

The whole point of these things is that you use them for whatever you can imagine. Since different people have different imaginations it only makes sense that there's a range of different devices to suit everyone.

The consumer purchases a domain name from their registrar. Neither the consumer nor their registrar are in Austria. The registrar is the one providing the service of registering the domain with the NIC. The NIC can't just say "we have a contract directly with the consumer".

The registrar can write in their contract that "consumer must cancel domain before it expires with the NIC" or "consumer must sign contract with NIC", and if the consumer doesn't do that then the registrar can maybe (depending on consumer and contract law in their jurisdictions) sue the consumer if they don't fulfil the contract of sale. But writing in one contract that the consumer must sign a third-party contract doesn't imply that the third-party contract actually exists. The NIC cannot go after the consumer because they don't have any contract with the consumer.

https://www.nic.at/en/how-at-works/domain-holder#id105

> I received a letter from the debt collection agency. What can I do?

> If a domain hasn't been paid for despite several payment reminders from nic.at, the domain shall be locked and the open claim handed over to our debt collection agency. As a result, the invoice must be paid directly to the debt collection agency. Please contact our debt collection agency for more information

Like TFA it's hard to tell if they genuinely believe that they are helping their customers by not discontinuing their service, or if it's a scam. I suspect a mixture of both.

There's no rule that domain names expire unless you renew them, at least for ccTLDs. It's just a convention. Conventions lead to assumptions, and assumptions can be used to scam people.

In general there's two types of businesses: businesses where you pre-pay (e.g. McDonalds), and businesses where you post-pay (e.g. a sit-down restaurant). If you take a conventionally pre-pay service and apply post-pay pricing to it, you have yourself a perfect scam.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1bnjus/the_austri...

There's a night and day difference between:

1. One party has ASI and everybody else has nothing but their human brains.

2. One party has ASI and everybody else has high-level AI but not quite ASI.

Most science fiction assumes world 1, because it's a better narrative. However, we actually live in world 2.

1. Publishing users must approve each and every release from a smartphone app.

2. Publishing users must provide verified government ID.

The first step prevents the types of attacks where an attacker gets control of a maintainer's computer and publishes a new release.

The second step discourages attacks where a user tries to get a malicious package used by others.

When combined with the security features that already exist, e.g. delays and automatic scanning, it would make it considerably harder to pull off a successful attack.