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 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'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.

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.

I wish I had mod point but "It's pronounced eye-gor" and " Of course the rates have gone up." will have to suffice.

That was in fact not a real world test at all. It was using records to ex-post-facto relitigate decisions. And yes, this is an important step towards something that may be considered for "real world testing" but it's not that at all.

That's a mid to low salary in BayBucks. Also, they are visa slaves with their H1Bs tied to the employer, ripe for exploitation.

You're not even sure how agriculture works, "bro".

If you bathe in the wet product, yes. But what credulous morons take from this is that food treated with it will give you cancer, or being around treated areas will give you cancer. It's not accidental that they have been led to believe this. but it's absolutely false. If you're not a commercial applicator ignoring OSHA rules you aren't at risk.