It takes more than money to supplant the name brand that every ISP games and every front line support worker uses by name

More than $1bn?? I don't buy it.

May I suggest a deep dive into to the concept of “time value of money”

What does “training the Chinese-ness out” even mean?!

The Chinese censorship. The Chinese use open weight models, Europeans too. US big three don't.

A building is an immovable asset. It’s also made of things that wear and tear. Its value is derived from its capability to house and the capability to house something extends beyond four walls and a roof.

The asset has inherent liabilities. A codebase can be reasoned about extremely similarly

Equating human thought to matrix multiplication is insulting to me, you, and humanity.

Sounds like a job for dnssec and sshfp records

Ahh, now you have three problems…hrm

Clearly you don’t and that disingenuousness is frowned upon in discussions here.

I believe a literal Act of Congress…

I have some bad news for you about your home internet connection.

There is no “EU” company with remotely the same network capacity or capability, in general

BunnyCDN is a good contender for the network. They can find another provider for cybersec.

BunnyCDN don't run their own network, most of their servers are hosted at DataPacket(.com), but they use some other hosting companies too.

DataPacket has a very large network though and is kind of, sort of EU-based. AFAIK most operations are in Czechia, but the company is registered in UK. And there's also the Luxembourg-based Gcore.

NAT is a stateful network function and incredibly complex to implement efficiently. NAT is never free.

it's already there and fully supported and accelerated by switches and connected hardware, switches like juniper do have licensing fees to use such features, but a company like AWS can surely work around these licensing costs and build an in-house solution.

> it's already there

So it should be free? The bank already has "money". It's already there so you can take it?

That's not how it works.

Do you not get a managed service where someone upgrades it, deals with outages etc? Are those people that work 24/7 free or is it another "already there"?

fair point, but the pricing of NATs is so low that it would actually take more effort to create billing for it than to just have it be free, it's clearly a choice to maximize profits for every single resource regardless of complexity or cost - that is my problem.

And there are things that come for free when you have instrastructure this big and expansive - one-time configuration and you either monetize it or pass down the savings and since every cloud service is in agreement that profits should be maximized you end up with cloud providers which have massive datacenters at very cheap cost due to economies of scale providing it at a value far exceeding normal hosting practices due to their ability to monopolize and spend vasts amount of money onboarding businesses with false promises which errodes the infrastructure for non-cloud solutions and makes cloud providers the only choice for any business as the talent and software ends up going into maintenance mode and/or turns towards higher profitability to keep themselves afloat.