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It's not clear that Italy wants anything banned globally.

Cloudflare is an ISP operating in Italy. If you want IP blocking instead of DNS blocking the results will be even worse.

Pirate sites are probably hosted in places where they can't really be sued.

Copyright overrides net neutrality.

It's not contagious.

I really hope so, but it doesn't make the news less extraordinary.

> Prior to return, NASA previously coordinated for all four crew members to be transported to a local hospital for additional evaluation

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-spacex-crew-11-missi...


This is probably for privacy. If all four go to the hospital you can't tell which one is sick.

Good point.

Zero knowledge cryptography could work here. You can prove you're over 18 without revealing your age or prove you're in France without revealing anything else. VPN providers might not be skilled enough to implement it though.

Do you need pirate live streams that badly?

They're not just doing DNS blocking. Spain is doing IP blocking and other countries will follow.

Then you use a VPN and give them the middle finger?

VPN blocking is coming next.

Blocking VPNs is extremely difficult. Even if mainstream VPNs are blocked, you can set up your own on a VPS and keep giving middle finger to the Spanish government.

You can't run those at home.

Why?

Because they are extremely loud, consume 8-10 kW, and probably cost $20K used.

Plenty of home runs all electric heating systems. Running inference on a H100 could be dual-purpose and also heat your home! (albeit less efficient than heat pumps, but identically as efficient as resistive heating)

The 8-10kW isn’t a big deal anymore given the prevalence of electric vehicles and charging them at home. A decade ago very few homes have this kind of hookup. Now it’s reasonably common, and if not, electricians wouldn’t bat an eye on installing it.

In the winter in northern Europe or the colder parts of North America, as part of a radiator system? Kind of works!

Any other time and place? The power to run it, plus the power to cool it.


But the cost of running them is.

That may not be a good example because everyone is saying Groq isn't worth $20B.

They were valued at $6.9B just three months before Nvidia bought them for $20B, triple the valuation. That figure seems to have been pulled out of thin air.

Speaking generally: It makes sense for a acquisition price to be at a premium to valuation, between the dynamics where you have to convince leadership its better to be bought than to keep growing, and the expected risk posed by them as competition.

Most M&As arent done by value investors.


Maybe it was worth the other $13.1B to make sure their competitors couldn't get them?

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