It’s like the Gastronomie Branche in Vienna

I really like Kagi, but I'm starting to get that same sense of anticipatory melancholy I used to get when I found a really good drug dealer back in the day - this product or service is fantastic, and I'm very happy to be able to give it money, but I recognize this is a short term affair and some day I'll be back to having to search for it again.

I would continue to pay Kagi $10 a month forever for exactly the product I signed up for - I have zero additional product wants or needs, zero additional ambitions for the service, zero things I'd like my money to be going to other than sustaining a high-quality service that solves a need for me. I don't need or want the AI features, I sure don't need a browser, and I'd really like all of this manic product energy to be going towards the core product so I can continue to enjoy it for the foreseeable future.

> Whether it's logical or not

From an American NatSec perspective, French strategic autonomy is viewed as a positive, as can be seen with Elbridge Colby's work (and similar work by Mastro and Doshi), and a lot of the initiatives led by the Biden admin, as this would allow burden sharing because the US is no longer in a position to manage a two continent war. France does our dirty work in the Sahel and can help in the Indo-Pac (as was seen with the US, France, and India jointly armtwisting the UK into ceding Diego Garcia to Marutius)

In Australia's case (and to the US's benefit), alignment with France makes sense and has been something that has come up in Australian NatSec for years.

New Caledonia is barely 800 miles off the coast of Australia and NZ, and both New Caledonia and French Polynesia have faced pressure due to China, especially after the recent violence in New Caledonia was linked to Azeri [5] disinfo networks on TikTok, along with decades of covert ops by China in New Caledonia [6][7]. France has also been an active defense partner with India and Indonesia - both of whom are increasingly cornerstones of Australian defense.

By every single standard, having an active "Indo-Pac" France is a net benefit for America+ strategy and Taiwan.

That said, French NatSec "strategic autonomy" does not have anything to do with French industry's alignment with marketing a "European first" tech story.

France has similar issues to the US with power politics (as can be seen with France, US, SK, and Israel sharing a similar CPI score), and the biggest booster and beneficiary for "European Tech" is Xavier Niel [0] (France's Mark Cuban or Elon Musk), who is on a first-name basis with Macron [1][2] and whose Father-in-Law (Bernard Arnault) has personally played a significant role in French power politics for years [3][4]. Arnault is also the reason why every country negotiating with the EU ALWAYS tariffs congac and champagne - Arnault's LVMH owns Hennessy and all the other congac producers, and the majority of champagne producers.

End of the day, this is just another inter-elite conflict between vested business interests like any other, but couched with the flag of nationalism.

Nothing wrong with that, but this is why you don't see alignment amongst EU member states - as each state is supporting their own vested business interests amidst a trade war. For example, there's a reason all of us American tech investors end up working with the same handful of politically aligned law firms in Czechia or ending up in the same IT Parks in Eastern Europe.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-12/xavier...

[1] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/12/22/emmanu...

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/french-mi...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/insight-macro...

[4] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2023/08/08/bernard...

[5] - https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/russia-azerbaijan-exploit-...

[6] - https://www.aspi.org.au/report/when-china-knocks-door-new-ca...

[7] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2024/05/16/why-and-...

The number of non-doms fell from 74,100 to 73,700 in the year up to April 2024, whilst tax intake from them increased by £100m. I do not consider 400 out of 74,100 as them fleeing....

[1]: Non-dom tax take jumped £100mn in 2023-24 despite falling numbers - https://on.ft.com/3Gx1MXU via @FT

Compilers simply could not keep up - that was reality, not just marketing. Ideally, Intel should have coded the compilers too and removed the rough edges. But they were a bit too slow and AMD ate Itanium's target market.

You have to admit though that the EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) model was quite innovative. The philosophy influenced the LLVM project and some of the principles are used in GPU's and AI accelerator chips, even if hardware-based dynamic scheduling won the game.

You sound very delusional, so many points in your text to be corrected but i dont think its worth it.

Just one nasty question: if you, as an assumed conservative, had to choose between conserving capitalism or the environment, what would it be?

Be warned, this article is misleading. The actual scientific paper shows a salinity‑driven weakening of stratification that likely allows more subsurface heat to reach the surface and melt sea ice. The article describes this as a complete overturning‑circulation reversal with dire carbon release consequences. These are claims that the paper itself does not make or substantiate. The paper actually does not use the words carbon or CO2 even once. The authors of the article took such liberties with this that I really believe this should be considered disinformation.

> Nearly all the smaller countries would waive even up to a minister-counsellor’s immunity in that scenario.

Sadly, if the UK's experience is anything to go by, if it is a US government worker / diplomat they would be on the first plane home[1].

I fear it would be no different in Japan. The US would get away with it. Even more so in the Trump era where he would probably make some dumb threats to the country to force their hand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn

Pi-hole is a killer application and I've loved it since I got it setup. One other app I highly recommend to run on your Pi in addition to Pi-hole is Nginx Proxy Manager[1].

[1]: https://nginxproxymanager.com/