Isn't that what most enterprise software is? A number to call and some kind of contract on it?

A strange game. The only way to win is not to play.

These were more like infrastructure suggestions.

This is all just so beyond dumb that I can't even figure out what's real and what's not. No just the LLM stuff, but that you can just invent a set of large numbers that have value and trade them, instantly.

This is useful enough for a family of 4 with teenagers who have a lot of logins that I don't mind the price. I'm not going to deal with self-hosting to save $1/month. My time is worth more than that.

Their own particular reasons are that utilities don't like chaos. Utilities plan on 30+ year time scales. They've planned to close these plants (which are uneconomical) for years and know when Trump leaves, this order also ends. So instead of an orderly planned closure of the plants, they get chaos. They also don't just buy coal at the market, they have long term contracts which now need to come back.

A brazilian coworker bought a suitcase on his trip here (circa 15 years ago) and then bought a playstation and an xbox to bring back.

Despite the headline this is not bankers moving to London but people rebalancing assets to non-US stocks. Which have been doing very well recently especially given the weakness in the dollar.

Somewhat sad OP is using cloud flare. If it was 2001 you'd just have it with some basic firewall appliance in-front of it.

The decentralisation of the Internet continues unfortunately

You mean the centralization.

Oh yeah, of course, thanks

The US will never allow them to be imported on this basis alone.