Uber kept fares artificially low while simultaneously paying high bonuses to drivers to build a massive network. After burning through roughly $30+ billion over its first decade, Uber then pivoted its business model by raising rider fares, increasing restaurant fees on Uber Eats, and cutting driver pay.

Basically, win market through subsidy -> establish monopoly -> increase price -> profit.

I believe Firefox without ads is faster & safer than Chrome with Ads.

Well, some Chinese AI companies like Zhipu AI are actually increasing price. Let us see the trend in 2027 when the money runs out there too.

> A slower, untested, incomplete git implementation, all for the low low price of $10-$15,000.

That $15k is indeed a very low low subsidized AI price. It will be $150k next year.

Why was the component model not expressed in LISP syntax like the way WAT is ? Why have yet another custom IDL language with bespoke parsing rules ?

There is a wat (s expression) syntax for the component model. The problem with the wat syntax for both Wasm and the component model is they’re a reflection of a binary format, and therefore are terrible for writing by hand. They’re designed to be written by tools, and the text format is just to help you understand the binary format.

I’ve written Wasm and component model wat extensively over the last decade to develop tests for Wasmtime, and even for an expert it’s a bad experience.

Wit syntax is easy to read and write by hand. There are high quality parsers that can transform it to and from the binary or wat format as needed, and code generators for a wide range of languages. It’s a way, way better experience in every way to deal with wit compared to the wat format.

Seconding this. Writing .wast files by hand is kind of fun as a novelty, but it's in no way something I'd want to maintain interfaces in.

Declarative interfaces via the WIT format are so much more readable in comparison; I'm really happy that's the direction we took for the component model.

> Tell me, why is it legal for Iran to bomb oil tankers of other countries?

Why is it "legal" for the US to shoot oil tankers of other nations ? And murder sailors of neutral nations in PROPER international waters such as the Indian ocean ?

> I wonder why there isn't a mobile OS that simply lets you build apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and gives you reliable storage without all this effort.

There WAS. Firefox OS phone! HTML+CS+JS apps! But Mozilla kicked it to the graveyard even though it was very popular in third world nations. I guess it was not $$$$$ enough for the Mozilla CEO of that era.

Aren't these Chinese models also heavily subsidized at the moment ? They are running off govt money which also has a cut-off date by 2028-30.

Anthropic says that LLM code "structurally exceeds human standards".

That's because American BigTech Bros are afraid of the below and will take every opportunity to diss on it.

"Support uptake of open source alternatives to proprietary solutions together with Member States and the Digital Commons EDIC — cloud, workplace tools, secure e-mail, decentralised social media."