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This obsession with regulating everything is why California will never have its own tech giants like Alibaba or ASML. Californian voters should just accept tha
by PoignardAzur 2y ago
This obsession with regulating everything is why California will never have its own tech giants like Alibaba or ASML.
Californian voters should just accept that an unregulated market is the only way to get any innovation at all.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoIs this serious? Do you know where most of the "FAANG" tech giants all hail from? Or where a bunch of VC's/accelerators are at? California is not left wanting for more tech innovation.
- lhoff 2y agonot the OP but pretty sure it was sarcasm and choosing ASML and Alibaba specially because they are based in countries that are not know for their lack of regulation.
- jbverschoor 2y agoAlibaba grew because of unregulated / taxfree and subsidized imported goods
- gwervc 2y agoSo not too unlike Amazon and its tax evasion schemes.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoRoger. Definitely some Poe's law here mocking regulation in earnest, so it's hard to tell.
- fragmede 2y ago> California will never have its own tech giants Might be quicker to name the tech giants that aren't in silicon valley
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- jbverschoor 2y agoASML hahaha. ASML is Dutch, probably in the top 5 bureaucratic and regulated countries in the world. ASML is threatening to leave not without reason.
- calmoo 2y agoOP was being sarcastic FYI
- jbverschoor 2y agoThen one of the companies has to go
- simongray 2y agoHe was mocking the way people talk about the EU and intentionally used companies not based in California as examples.
- Freedom2 2y agoWhere do people talk like this?
- PoignardAzur 2y agoThe joke is that every single time an article about EU tech regulations comes out, a bunch of people sneer that this is why Europe doesn't have FAANGs.
- sham1 2y agoIn this very orange website. Any EU regulation seems to be anathema and a barrier to innovation, and that extends to things that improve user privacy and such.
- Freedom2 2y agoDo you have any links? This is very curious and new to me, I haven't personally seen this before, but I'm more than happy to be wrong!
- educasean 2y agoYeah we're stuck with lame also-rans like Google, Meta, Apple and nvidia. California sounds like it really needs your help.
- schmookeeg 2y agodeliver the joke with tinderbox-dry humor enjoy the whooshes
- PoignardAzur 2y agoIt's a genre. I usually wouldn't on HN, but that joke was just right there.