From my reading I get the feeling it has more in common with Spain and Portugal before the fall of the dictatorships.

It's likely the regime will be denied use of heavy weaponry by the US and Israel. This means any actual popular revolt in some sense could be supported by massive air power.

The Adventure Zone, Hardcore History, The Rest is History, Fall of Civilisations, The All in Pod, Planet Money, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Noclip Crewcast, The Retro Hour, The WAN Show and a bunch of podcasts in Spanish and Norwegian that I doubt anymore would care about.

Are there many podcasts in Spanish and Norwegian?

In Spanish tons and tons pick your country and flavor. In Norwegian many more than I expected. Some very good retro game ones that I enjoy.

Thats not bad for a mature business like paypal

I mean it's not like Stripe was founded yesterday. Stripe: 2010 Paypal: 1998

I'd argue that 99% of the "internet gdp" happened after Stripe was founded

I mean for me I compare AI today with the introduction of the Apple 2. It promises a lot and can do some awesome things but we are still at the beginning. Also I am amazed how quickly people just got used to AI. Its still magical and 5 years ago this was science fiction that people did not think was possible.

I think the Japanese are also working on potentially competing technology

Don't think Rapidus is. Nikon & Canon might be researching alternatives to EUV Lithography but how long is that going to take?

LSTC will contribute research (for 1nm) though it isn't clear if it'll be in partnership with ASML or as competition.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/japan-seeks-revitalize-its-sem...

Just ban algorithms on feeds. It seems to do nothing but harm. Keep it on pages and put those in their own tab.

The Dutch had more in common with British East India company phase of the British expansion.

My bet is that the amount of work needed per token generated will decrease over time and the models will become smaller for the same performance as we learn to optimize so cost and needed hardware will go down

We would have been better served by setting minimum clothing standards instead of this bs to get at the fast fashion. Also educate young people about the cost of their cheap clothes to the world especially young women who are the majority consumers of fast fashion.