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I am sure my country's economy sucks.

But then nobody really screams apocalypse. But, in US, people are so alarmed about US' economy collapsing.

Can somebody explain what this means exactly?

Why do they need to pay it back? If they pay it back, then what will happen?

I'm from a developing country. My country is objectively much worse than US in every aspect. My country doesn't export anything significant. There's no innovation. insane level of corruption. Yet we don't have this issue. Nobody screams that the country will collapse.

Is this kind of doomsday thinking an American-only culture?

Actually, increasing the fees will lead to more expensive in-game products. Higher price = higher barrier will reduce the number of players.

Therefore, this is opposite of praying on the kids.

Your story is an extremely typical one. It's even worse at older tech companies like Google, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM.

Yet these companies are doing well by any standard. Sure, IBM is bad but it's still a $100B company.

Who is even doing useful projects at these companies? Every story I've heard is everyone is doing useless projects for promotions.

Maybe I just don't know how large companies work.

"Wang" can be one of the 2 popular different last names in China and Taiwan.

The difference is an aggressively growing and profitable business vs. stagnant-at-best-degrowth-at-worst business.

> We should send them to Iran to negotiate the peace deal.

I laughed so hard. But I mean seriously...

Anyone who joins Anthropic at the 800 valuation is probably less about money.

If it is about money, they would try to buy low, not buy high like this.

That's like 1 principle engineer. That's it.

Is this an ads for GrepheneOS?

I don't think it's bad if the mandate of that funding is to have open-weights.

I don't think it's that difficult. Their servers are stateless too. S3 is easy to migrate.

Database is more difficult, but tons of people have done it successfully.... meanwhile people who host their own LLMs are relatively small in number in comparison.

Most companies don't do their own data centers mainly because it is more expensive and less reliable. It's something they can just pay for the problem to go away. The calculus for hosting your own LLM is probably similar.

Even Stripe who built their own coding agents and has tons of money/resources still decides not to host their own LLMs.

Still, many people will prefer open-weight models. It is similar to how we prefer linux but still use AWS/Render/and whatever. It doesn't lock us in, and we can move providers if we want to.

It's the same argument why Google isn't never considered a monopoly to the online ads space. Because the whole ads industry is much larger.

Same thing with card payments. There are online card payments and in-store card payments and other kinds of payments. Stripe + Paypal volume is considered a fraction of it.

The same business model that Deepseek is using.

Open-source models + services. This is more attractive because it doesn't lock in the vendors. If I grow larger, I can decide to deploy the open-source models.

I doubt Stripe is anywhere near the monopoly status.

Except for Stripe and other payment gateway companies, of course

> Is anyone on HN still actually using Cursor in 2026?

Most people on HN wouldn't be satisfied using anything. Therefore, probably no

Ok, now that you mentioned it, I actually want that.

On top of that, the company hasn't never hidden the fact that everything on the machine is tracked.

Everyone on the planet is saying this. Every new hire orientation likely states this.

People act surprised when they are tracked on a corporate machine lmao.

Do they go to Apple Store and login it to their personal account on the showcase iphone and yell at the genius employees?

As I understand, the AI part makes $2B a month now (from Anthropic and Google).

The AI/compute revenue is higher than what the space department makes.

> is barely any more "effort" than buying and holding SPY, as the work is being entirely delegated

Effort is translated to money e.g. you do it yourself or you hire someone to do it; someone is spending that large amount of effort that is valued at millions of dollars/year.

If SPY is so great, then wealthy people would've just bought SPY.

But that's not what they are doing. They pay fund managers top money (think top 0.1% earner) to invest for them.

> Many strategies are dependent on that level of wealth (or designed to address problems that only apply to that level of wealth) for tax-related reasons.

Their main goal is to grow the funds. Tax-saving is secondary at best. Nobody would be okay with shrinking the fund to acquire tax-saving lol.

Because they obviously tried to make it any insult by attacking the person they discussed with.

Who said it wasn't about Palestine? Who even thinks that? We are talking about the protest regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict, right?

So, you think Palestine is irrelevant to the discussion of ... rolling the dice ... the Israel-Palestine conflict

They both invaded each other's land and killed each other's families. One side is obviously losing.

It's common sense yet you keep denying it.

Palestine aims to annihilate Israel ... cue "from the river to the sea".

They both want to kill each other. It's only that one side is winning.

Not sure why you need to mislead. It has been clear for 50 years at least.

> Also, winning by one of the narrowest margins in US election history

This dude said he would help commit genocide and became the first republican to win popular votes in 20 years.

> The Israeli-Palestine conflict is far from the #1 priority of things US voters consider when voting in presidential elections.

If a president promises to commit a genocide, I don't think any kind of policies would get voters (who are against genocide) to vote for him.

It's certainly not #1 priority but it is a deal breaker.

Correct. Israel is committing genocide.

> Hamas is resisting occupation

This is definitely not true. The fact that you downplay what Palestine has been doing is wild.

You were definitely angry given your comment here "If you didn't want to discuss that, then you shouldn't have brought it up."

If you weren't, we would just discuss normally without insulting that the other side didn't have intention to discuss in a discussion forum.

So, somehow my comment angered you that you had to resort to the tactics of undermining the other side.

I tried applying the same principle for building a product.

Then, I have a few products that have maybe 10 users.

Too niche is an issue.

> Most Americans would prefer that we fund neither.

I'd say, based on the latest election result, this isn't true.

Trump was basically like: I'm gonna fuck up Palestine. They'd better watch it. He was always clear about this.

And then he won every single swing state and even won popular vote.

Not that I agree with Trump. I merely state what I've observed.