Maybe they'll buy Long Space-based AI Corp. (formerly known as Long Blockchain Corp, formerly known as Long Island Iced Tea Corp) next.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp. for those who missed the first episode.

I may be an adult on the outside, but…

I took the bus up to San Marino when I was nearby once. There was a sign near the bus stop about having one's passport stamped, 5€ at the tourist information office and by chance I had my passport on me. Happy happy joy joy.

(Lots of businesses use .sm domains, yes.)

I think that posting says: ① Anthropic intended "Max 20×" for developers, and that lightly-using developers should cross-subsidise heavily-using developers ② Openclaw etc. use lots of tokens, and the same plan ③ Anthropic now excludes agents from the developer plan ④ and this hurts … Anthropic?

I don't understand the reason. Anthropic has subsidised an unintended group recently, why does ceasing hurt Anthropic itself?

That's a lot of money in much of the world. How much did you earn when you were 16, 20, 24?

"There must be thousands" is just despair. But since you mention something concrete, those 26 domains, I had a look. 26 is not a lot, easy for a human to scan. I included a few more (.ad for Andorra, .al for Albania, ..., .sm for San Marino) for a total of 52.

Belgium uses AWS and Gibraltar (.gi) uses Afilias. The Isle of Man and a couple of other small ones use DNS providers in Europe but outside their own territory. Apart from that, the 52 I checked all use their own primary name servers and often secondary name servers at other organisations elsewhere (e.g. Macedonia uses secondaries in Austria and Slovenia, Albania in the US and one in Australia).

So it's Belgium and Gibraltar, and soon it's just Gibraltar.

Oh well that's good news. I don't mean to despair, I think it's within our grasp to break out of US tech dependence, I just worry the momentum won't last. There's a surge of EV sales whenever there's an energy crisis, but it usually trails off once the crisis is over.

I hope our push to be more local with tech is not just reactionary

Russia was attrited and gave up in Afghanistan in 1989, Germany was attrited and collapsed on the Eastern Front in 1944, USA was attrited and gave up in Vietnam, etc.

The point is that attrition takes a long time and a lot of effort. It doesn't happen overnight, as the media has been claiming about this war for years now.

Afghanistan was fought by the USSR rather than just Russia. Quite a few Ukrainian soldiers ended up there ironically.

"The point is" … that? I thought your point would have something to do with a necessity for compromise. "War of attrition" → "compromise".

I don't see that, AFAICT few wars of attrition lead to a compromise.

And, BTW, the newspapers I read didn't write "overnight". Did yours — really?

I've had Claude produce HTML containing SVG for graphs recently. I could have produced Markdown+PNG. Are you saying that Markdown+PNG would have used fewer tokens?

This one was released a few years ago and still seems unbroken. I'm sure it will be broken at some point, but if you have to wait a year or two from when you make a deepfake until you can post it on Facebook, maybe that's enough. Maybe even a month is enough.

Oil may be valuable stuff, but nothing compels competing energy sources to be more expensive, and the cheapest oil fields were developed first, with a few exceptions. The optimists who want to develop oil fields beneath 3km of water are IMO unlikely to sell at a price that covers their costs.

Windmills cannot produce fertilizer or plastic. Oil is useful for a lot more than just energy.

On the energy side, of course there will come a day when solar and nuclear will be more economical and plentiful than oil, but that is many decades away.