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by 9dev 3mo ago
> Why spend your own money when you can spend someone else’s? Funny you would say that in defence of giant mega-corporations, externalising huge chunks of the cost they generate to the rest of the world. OpenAI decided to run the largest
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That still doesn’t take away from the point that innovation does happen in Europe; the first version of Linux was created and released while he was at the university of Helsinki. If you want another example, Fraunhofer created the MP3 forma
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Unless your goal is creating a society that is centred around being the perfect habitat for Peter Thiel and Peter Thiel only, you should not listen to anything that guy says.
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Scary to think that that's a real question with an unclear answer now.
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If there's one thing all historians agree on, it's that collaboration has always been the winning strategy in human history. If the US had never opened up their innovations to the world, they wouldn't have been able to extr
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Eh, if that’s the only thing you read from that comment, I’m not really interested in continuing the conversation. The opportunities for tech are worse in the EU compared to the US, nobody denies that. But I don’t think the existence of Goo
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If they did that, their pension system (in huge parts built on stock) would collapse. The American tech market is largely saturated, and needs room to grow. The EU is a market of almost 500 million people with a lot of money. The US simply
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> Google made Android open source for free And Hitler built the highways in Germany. What does that even prove? They can still abuse Android for vendor lock-in, or as a sales funnel to their commercial offerings, or as a data source for
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Even in a digital world, monopolies bring clear downsides. The case of Google being able to simply create realities by way of Chrome the rest of the market is forced to follow is a good example here. I agree that the common understanding of
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Let your AI agent of choice summarise the AI act for you. It's reasonable for the most part.
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As he just found out, that's exactly what the EU can do. And as he's about to find out, the EU is way too important a market for the American economy to ignore or pull out of. Play on your neighbour's yard, obey their rules.
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I may be paid to build a machine, but I am a human and take pleasure in arbitrary acts of vanity. I value elegance, and will always favour elegant solutions in engineering and the design of machines, virtual or physical. That’s the reason w
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How is that anything but the work of a masochist. There are absolutely zero reasons to write code like this.
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> Like is it stereotyping to say Black people tend to have darker skin than whites? Nah. But it’s stereotyping to say black people tend to commit more crimes than whites. Which is a lot closer an analogy here, and just as wrong.
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The only mistake was not opening the root namespace altogether. It’s just a money grab.
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Shotgun on your.self! That’s going to yield a ton of great second level sub domains :)
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That would constitute fraud IMHO. You cannot simply make it appear as though customers bought something, when the verb buy has a very specific and crystal-clear meaning.
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If you wanted to come up with individual multilateral agreements to cover even a fraction of what the EU does for its member states, you'd reinvent it in one form or another. I don't mean this personally, but it appears as though
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That’s a reduction in prohibitions, not regulation. You cannot enable this without regulating how it works.
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> All my devices supported USB-C before the EU regulation. I don't have this particular problem so it doesn't exist! It did exist for huge amounts of people. At the time, many manufacturers had proprietary plugs and would s
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Are you kidding me..? The freedom of movement across all member states, including the right to settle and start a business anywhere you like, that's not a "good regulation" to you? Being able to pay in all of those states wit
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Of all things to criticise, you pick out the one ruling that eventually lead to a consolidation of chargers? Really? I haven't ever met a single person who wasn't grateful of being able to have one cable for all their devices.
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And the other way around too - it sounds like you could have had a very similar dining experience as today. It always amazes me how very little difference there is between past people's lifestyles and ours. I know this on a factual lev
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Point taken, but as a European, it doesn’t really make a difference whether it was the election system or the popular vote - either way, this was possible, and there’s nothing to suggest it won’t happen again.
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Nothing. It doesn't matter though. If we can't trust the US administration won't just apply 50% taxes tomorrow because some EU representative said something mean to the president, then we can't rely on goods or services
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> Thinking and doing is not the same. You can't know whether you have the moral high ground. That's always an assumption, and I am not making any assumptions about being morally superior to other nations or cultures. No more,
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Be gentle, foreigners using the internet is still a pretty new concept to them
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…and the US is depending on other markets - mostly the EU and China - to keep growing their economy, because the domestic market is pretty saturated with tech already. This has ripple effects too, because 401k pensions depend on big tech to
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Pitching in on this with a tangent - how good are LLMs with RTS games these days? As someone without friends into that genre, it’d be pretty cool to play eg. AoE II against a capable computer that play like a real human…
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Maybe, but as I wrote in a sibling comment, I prefer to not go down the slippery slope of lowering our standards to compete with nations like the US or China - that isn't a battle the EU can win. Don't forget that the EU is still

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