To be more generous, it is the action that can be taken unilaterally.

Trying to eliminate gambling has vexed many an emperor and cleric.

So if he had paid someone to streak he would have gotten away with it though.

We are only seeing the very dumb here.

Cowork and Openclaw are very distinct offerings.

I haven't tried it in a while, but a known way of jailbreaking an LLM used to be to play with their "emotions."

I recall in university that many of these existed but all died as soon as they wanted payment. This seems like airline seat space. People find small seats painful. They find paying anything extra even more painful.

Fair point — that's the graveyard of this category. My current thinking: keep it free and see if it's actually useful first.

Monetization only makes sense if retention is real.

What killed those apps — the paywall itself, or the retention already weak before they charged.

I mean, given that students have for long periods crammed for tests 72 hours before and that the number of course hours is also sparse and inefficient, I am surprised it took this long.

You look at a lot of places and between unions, procurement rules, or an obsession with certain classes of contractors, government capacity is badly hobbled from the start.

Eh, the way the US does a lot of things have significant cost problems.

Public spending on healthcare is around 8-9% of GDP once you add things up.

So you have already paid for a public healthcare system in many ways.

Most US states are not global superpowers with hundreds of millions of citizens.

The scale is completely different. Economics do not simply scale up and down, the math changes drastically when the numbers get bigger.

>The scale is completely different.

Yes, the scale is different. This means that the debt problem can go on for far longer without being apparent. It can even be put off until the current slate of politicians are out of office, until they're dead of old age and beyond accountability. Scale can hide things, by making them so big your field of vision doesn't allow you to see it all at once.

A lot of them just plug into a wall outlet.