It's a hard problem. How do you prove you own an account if you lost all proof of ownership? Especially so if an account was never tied to your real name, in which case you could at least rely on government ids.
Gambling creates addicts, and addicts are more likely to act in desperation. They might steal, default on debt, or kill themselves and are less productive members of society. I bet societies with lots of addicts are much less likely to thrive because they carry a ton of dead weight. Thus we should ban or at least curb gambling because it hurts us all in general.
We legalized online gambling, the end result is more and earlier addiction and the added tax does not outweigh the societal cost due to loss of jobs, added crime and secondary effects of broken families on monetary, let alone ethical grounds. And they had to change the law to have more bite due to gambling sites mostly ignoring the required checks on addicted and heavy usage players, because profits have to be made. At least they got rid of the insane commercials since that's what most normal people complained about.
We should specify which subscription plan we are talking about. You seem to be talking about the Anthropic Claude Max plan. I think it's consensus that these flat rate type of subscriptions are loss leaders, as they come with restrictions how you can use the API via T&C, namely only with Claude Code et al. They are meant to hook developers into their products.
Shouldn't we compare the API pricing, where we pay per token? The whole point of local inference is that we don't have any restrictions regarding product use or time limits, so it would only be fair if we compare it to a plan that offers the same. And even that is only a first approximation, because the commercial models are usually much more capable than the open weight models.
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That said, I'm not sure if new certifications are still being accepted. So there may have been uncertified Dogme95-compliant films made since that was never been in the official list.
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