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Deepmind is a British company (now owned by Google), and are for sure at the forefront of AI from anything I can understand. Covid vaccines were almost all don
by kmonsen 4y ago
Deepmind is a British company (now owned by Google), and are for sure at the forefront of AI from anything I can understand.
Covid vaccines were almost all done by European companies.
Europe is different for sure, and incumbents often use regulations to fight innovation but that happens in the US as well. Internet access for example is a lot better in Europe compared to US.
- TekMol 4y agoBritain is not in the EU. If we include Britain, there would be 2 websits in the top 100. A Hungarian porn website and bbc.com
- MrsPeaches 4y agoEurope != EU Britain is in Europe but not the EU.
- TheDong 4y ago> There is only one European website in the top 100 websites spotify.com is swedish, and booking.com is the netherlands. Both of those are part of the EU, are in the top 100, and are not porn websites. There are more I'm sure, but I know those off-hand.
- TekMol 4y agoCan you link to a list that has these two in the top 100 websites worldwide? Both are not on Wikipedias list of most visited websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites
- TheDong 4y agoI used the alexa top 1m, since when someone says "top website", that's what I assume is being referred to: http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip Maybe that's stale and there's other preferred sources now..... But you linked a "top 50" list, which seems obviously useless to make the claim you're making.
- rdl 4y agoHungarian? I assume you mean Czech (xvideos)? And xnxx (not sure if they're related). There's also a Cyprus based site (xhamster) although I suspect they have substantial operations in not-Cyprus.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoNot according to this list: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranking-the-top-100-websites-in-the-world/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranking-the-top-100-website...
- rdl 4y agoI just browsed that list and it was hilarious that most of the EU sites were google/amazon country sites. But that list is from 2019.
- kmonsen 4y agoYou said Europe (I think, can't read your comment anymore), and the UK is very much part of that.
- blibble 4y agofortunately Britain doesn't use the euro
- andymockli 4y agoRelated: https://www.x-rates.com/calculator/?from=EUR&to=GBP&amount=1 https://www.x-rates.com/calculator/?from=EUR&to=GBP&amount=1
- blibble 4y agonot really related when that's almost 20%, is it? turns out retaining the ability to set your own interest rates is important
- asdadsdad 4y agoyeah, they use the pound, which is also almost 1 = 1 with the Euro =)
- blibble 4y agoso by almost you mean almost 20% off? euro-nationalists kept saying after brexit the euro would hit parity (but they expected it to be against the pound, not the dollar)
- TulliusCicero 4y ago> Internet access for example is a lot better in Europe compared to US. Citation needed. Data I can find indicates that the US does pretty well for speed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_connection_speeds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_... That said, I have no doubt that the cost of internet in the US is substantially higher than in Europe.
- bobthepanda 4y agoIt really depends on the country in the EU. Germany is terrible with Internet speed.
- TulliusCicero 4y agoAgreed. I lived in Germany until last year and it wasn't great. Especially since companies there often do only 2-year contracts, or only have higher speeds for the 2-year contracts.