Yeah, I'm gonna guess it's a lot more than double. My company's enterprise agreement with MS has Claude Opus 4.7 now at 15x token consumption. I bet that's approaching what it actually costs but still not quite it.

When has legality of actions stopped this administration in the past, specifically on creation of unpopular, protectionist (very communist market control) policies?

That's never how this works out. Water is cheaper than electricity for cooling so the more water you use the less you spend, whether that's literally just dumping water back into the sanitary sewer system or through evaporative chillers. In nearly every circumstance these facilities are doing the calculations to figure out which is cheapest and what they can get away with.

Trusing what comes out of Blackstone publicity persons mouth is painfully naieve in any context, bur especially so in light of the history of how these facilities operate.

I mean maybe he's right, but I would always take with a grain of salt a software package creator's opinion on how awesome his software package is.

I think it's a LOT less than zero sum in favor of the market makers who are close enough to the house in this context that it's a difference without a distinction.

You'd think an experienced speaker would be able to adapt to the crowd.

You're replying to someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. The platforms and other large trading houses are market making on these platforms. So that's how the first bet is made and it's very much not zero sum.

It is not zero sum. The usual suspects are market making as well at the platforms themselves. This is a critically important fact to know if you're trying to reason about how this all works.

No, they won't. The small percentage of people losing the most money are credulous morons and gambling addicts who think they have "a system" or some other kind of edge and just need one more to hit the big one.

That's comepletely unnecessary. Before theorycrafting perhaps learn the problem domain.

You can print directly to these printers, even using bambu software, if you have the right firmware level and software, all from Bambu. Because they're not trustworthy you can ditch the Bambu slicer and use their proxy software to print directly to the printer from another slicer. But that's still their junk software that may autoupdate and stop allowing you to do that. So those of us who bought these things before they went off the deep end are running custom firmware with the printer blocked from accessing the internet and printing directly to them using orcaslicer.

The problem is not "no cloud".

I've used their cloud printing once, decided that was a bad idea going forward (time has proved me correct), blocked the MAC address of that printer from ever reaching the internet and have been printing locally with Orca and X1+ ever since. Yes, it does work work great locally.

What's the appeal on losing money to those with inside information?

Huh, haven't seen a change in my Pro subscription. Though I hit the weekly model limit -- if that's not changing then it's not really a big deal.

Makes sense, Gamestop became a weird used goods store a while ago.

Sound like a bitter poor person. I'm going to continue to enjoy my spacious home on a few acres in an area with excellent schools and low crime.