One reason (not the only one) is likely strategic - deny potential competitors access to resources i.e. out spend them (competitive CapEx escalation).

Go to america.gov (which is Gemini behind the scenes afaik) and type in "play minecraft"

that one is a hardcoded easter egg

yeah but the prose is illustrative (fable/opus wouldn't do it in the same style)

"A week in Beijing and Shanghai with the people building AI in China": https://earnedintuition.substack.com/p/involution-without-ex... does a decent job of exploring some possible reasons

I tried to read this but it's just claude after a certain point.

It's unreadable.

I can't understand any serious writer essentially expecting other people to read stuff that they didn't write. Or if claude was actually good at formulating ideas and conducting information, fine. But the truth is that I'm just reading 80% empty prose that are forced in there by claude.

Yeah, sad sign of the times unfortunately.

> which even they couldn’t access

What would prevent them from getting the data out of postgres?

E2E encryption, but I don't know the architecture. I.e. Meta doesn't have the keys. My comment above is based on an interview I saw with Zuckerberg where he wanted to use the Signal model to ensure the data was secure "even from Meta."

Where specifically do they say their European plan has ZDR? I just skimmed that page and their FAQs but can't see it (though I might have missed it).

Hmm I may be mistaken on that now, I remember it being in the user agreement. There are third party routers that explicitly offer ZDR, though API costs will be slightly more expensive.

Yep am waiting for some of my whitelisted openrouter providers to pick it up (so far none offer it but hopefully a few will in the next couple of weeks)

There's already an open weights one mentioned up thread: https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/

Brexit has caused an estimated ~6-8% per capita loss of output: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv0m164m84o

>inflexibility on the EU side triggered the Brexit referendum.

That's a bit of a stretch

It's literally what happened.

Cameron was trying to reduce the scope of EU integration with the UK (esp freedom of movement), with the threat he didn't want to use of a referendum, the EU said no (as the other commenter explained partly to disincentivize others, but also because they thought he was bluffing and people would never vote to leave), so the referendum was held.

To be fair, freedom of movement is one of the core principles[1] of the EU.

Restricting that is a tall ask, I wouldn't describe refusing that as being inflexible.

[1]: https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-histor... "Freedom of movement gives citizens the right to move and reside freely within the Union."

That's wrong, he did get what he wanted before the referendum: "After the deal had been approved, Cameron described it as giving the United Kingdom "special status within the European Union" and immediately declared that both he and the UK Government would campaign for a "Remain" vote in the referendum within a "reformed European Union"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_United_Kingd...

Not sure why its so difficult for you to understand the obvious goal of taking a hardline stance on leaving the EU as a member state vs onboarding possible partnerships, members, etc. You're looking at this backwards.

I think that the EU would be in worse shape today if the UK had followed most other members at the time and restricted freedom of movement to it for the countries that joined in 2004 and 2007. It would have been nice to have got some credit for that.

Cameron wanted to split the four freedoms. Canada does not, from what I can read.

FYI, Hoka have an EU site too

And North Korea?

Crazy, but not universalist so they can only harm themselves.