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Thanks this seems like really good information. I've never heard of this...

73 violations involving slave labour, 1 with child labour, am I reading that right?

Decisions and jobs aren't monolith.

In some cases employers are going to hire US based no matter what. In other cases there would be a choice and this policy may tip the scale in some of those cases.

In aggregate, it seems really likely to me that this will result in some outflow of jobs from the US to international

Sure there would be value, but now with an additional 100k hurddle,.expanding overseas office may be a better value

500 million was specific to Claude Code, they are at 5 billion annual run rate and growing

Yeah. I don't really get how single cottage rentals are economical vs a proper many unit business.

But, I'm biased, I would prefer to stay in a cabin resort than some strangers cottage that has no real reputational risk.

I saw a "distributed in canada" one :(

I mean, I agree that a lot of money was spent training some of these models - and I personally wouldn't invest in an ai based company. The economics dont make sense.

However, worst case, self hosted open source models have got pretty good, and I find it unlikely that progress will simply stop. Diminishing returns from scaling data yes, but there will still be optimizations all through the pipeline.

That is to say, LLMs will continue to have utility regardless if Open AI and Anthropic are around long term.

Some people are finding value in LLMs, that doesn't mean LLMs are great at everything.

Some people have work to do, and this is a tool that helps them do their work.

The 'cloud' was a pretty big thing though... everyone used to self host, now only some self host.

AWS, GCP, Azure make a lot of money

Sure. Statscounter has a history of questionable data. They don't have a representative sample of websites, and there are technical challenges.

Finland is a small population so would suffer from sample size issues.

What catalyst is there to drive an almost 4x market share growth? And the collapse of Mac?

Flip through a few countries, you can tell they are having issues with OS classification.

This is partly because there is no good supply chain or real wholesale market for mid priced consumer packaged goods. It's essentially completely owned by the ogilopolies.

There is for produce and meats which share the supply chain with restaurants.