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Now they're happy to trump up some BS about "America innovates, Europe regulates" It's easy to "innovate" when you're starting from a "clean slate".

by tagyro 2y ago

fsckboy 2y ago
Here's some innovative American peanut butter to go with your pure jelly: We didn't trump up anything about American individualism, ingenuity and innovation. Rather, a visiting European, de Toqueville, wrote about it extensively as early as 1835. De la démocratie en Amérique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America He also said "...I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position; and if I were asked, ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply,—to the superiority of their women." "Tocqueville noted that religion played a leading role in American life in the 1830s, due to its being constitutionally separated from government. Far from objecting to this situation, he observed that Americans found this disestablishment quite satisfactory, in contrast to France, with its outright antagonism between avowedly religious people and supporters of democracy."
- tagyro 2y ago
  no jelly here Happy to have my privacy, no company snooping on me 's all good, man :)
inglor_cz 2y ago
"It's easy to "innovate" when you're starting from a "clean slate"." This is an interesting remark. It seems that countries like Estonia or Poland, which significantly overhauled their systems in the 1990s, are more innovative than Italy, Germany or France, whose systems are much older and somewhat ossified / clogged with bureaucracy. But the US system is even older, and it still produces good results. Heck, the UK system is ancient, and the UK has a lot of innovation going on, both in tech and biotech.
- tagyro 2y ago
  I'll give a different example: Romania (mostly) skipped (A/V)DSL and went directly to optical fiber, which resulted in having the top-spot in download speed for a couple of years. The US started from 100m ahead - the level Europe was at the time - so they already had a foundation - and (imo) made it easier to look ahead from atop a (100m) mound.

Now they're happy to trump up some BS about "America innovates, Europe regulates" It's easy to "innovate" when you're starting from a "clean slate".

by tagyro 2y ago

Now they're happy to trump up some BS about "America innovates, Europe regulates" It's easy to "innovate" when you're starting from a "clean slate".

fsckboy 2y ago

Here's some innovative American peanut butter to go with your pure jelly: We didn't trump up anything about American individualism, ingenuity and innovation. Rather, a visiting European, de Toqueville, wrote about it extensively as early as 1835. De la démocratie en Amérique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America He also said "...I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position; and if I were asked, ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply,—to the superiority of their women." "Tocqueville noted that religion played a leading role in American life in the 1830s, due to its being constitutionally separated from government. Far from objecting to this situation, he observed that Americans found this disestablishment quite satisfactory, in contrast to France, with its outright antagonism between avowedly religious people and supporters of democracy."

tagyro 2y ago
no jelly here Happy to have my privacy, no company snooping on me 's all good, man :)

inglor_cz 2y ago

"It's easy to "innovate" when you're starting from a "clean slate"." This is an interesting remark. It seems that countries like Estonia or Poland, which significantly overhauled their systems in the 1990s, are more innovative than Italy, Germany or France, whose systems are much older and somewhat ossified / clogged with bureaucracy. But the US system is even older, and it still produces good results. Heck, the UK system is ancient, and the UK has a lot of innovation going on, both in tech and biotech.

tagyro 2y ago
I'll give a different example: Romania (mostly) skipped (A/V)DSL and went directly to optical fiber, which resulted in having the top-spot in download speed for a couple of years. The US started from 100m ahead - the level Europe was at the time - so they already had a foundation - and (imo) made it easier to look ahead from atop a (100m) mound.