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Is there a European search engine?
Yandex is European, but maybe not the right kind of European.
yeah definitely not what the eu means when they discuss technical sovereignty lol
Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’
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And ASML has competition as well in Canon and Nikon, although they’re ahead of them in EUV. Are you an EE? Or a Physicist? I’m wondering why you’ve shrouded ASML in such a golden halo? They’re a company doing basic research in solid state physics, but there are a lot of companies like that. And the issue here isn’t EU vs US - it’s private vs public industry. ASML is a private company that was spun off of Siemens. Bui…
ASML is just an example of a complicated, competitive, hi-tech leading company coming from Europe. None of the competitors you listed are on par with ASML at the moment as you said. So we've established Europe can actually make tech critical competitive products (sorry for being hung up on ASML, I live in the Netherlands so that example comes to mind) As for the government vs private venture, I cannot say it's set in…
and companies, all very techy, and none of it is free market
Whoa - sorry but that just isn’t true. Other than Huawei which is a Trojan horse for Chinese intelligence services, none of the dynamism in the Chinese economy is happening in state owned companies. NONE! Look at Tencent or Alibaba or Xiaomi or DJI or any of the big Chinese tech leaders. Or look at SMIC - they guys ASML we’re going to make that big sale to! NONE of these are state owned firms. If you seriously think that any of what’s happening now in China is any kind of a counterpoint to the abject failure of the planned economy, I can’t help you.
Maybe Gaia-X will be a success - but it is as I said - making a successful venture is always against the odds. But private industry will realize that sooner and waste less capital on failures. Public funding takes years past clear failure to turn off the money spigot. Good luck!
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#503> " a platform joining up cloud-hosting services from dozens of companies, allowing business to move their data freely" This is practically dead before it's created. The other platforms (AWS, GCP etc.) are hyperscale due to their useful integrated nature of building blocks. You're not going to get that with a bunch of random vendors. It's hard enough as it is for a large company to create a somewhat homogenous enviro…
> Are you going to have a single API (and perhaps console) where you say: I want a machine with specs X, image Y and parameters Z to do that and have the lower layers resolve it? Probably not. Why not? Isn't Kubernetes already most of the way there? (I have only played with it very briefly, but it looks like it should solve this. The workload is most likely a container anyways, mostly resolving the "image" issue, so…
Not: because you would either lose platform-specific functionality between whatever hypervisor the different vendors happen to use, or you would get multiple APIs. I'm sure attempts other than libvirt exist, but nobody has really succeeded. It's all either Xen, KVM, or VMWare so far, and a little bit of Hyper-V, and none of them are compatible.
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I agree that these efforts have been very hit or miss but on the other hand... What should they do instead? Just give up and accept that we're going to simply be technological vassals to America? Or should Macron and Merkel learn Javascript and take the matter into their own hands? We could've gone the Chinese way and just close the door to American companies, effectively forcing the local populace to use home-grown…
Macron and Merkel learn Javascript and ... Why not? The prime minister of Singapore is an active C++ programmer, and has shared source code on his Facebook page, asking for bug reports [1]. Code is at [2]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime... [2] https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B2G2LjIu7Wbdfjha...
Will it make them better administrators of their countries? I doubt.
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> how far behind the old world is, both in tech as in spirit I always laugh out loud reading nonsense like that. It is only true if you extremely narrowly define "tech" as SaaS solutions. Just to mention a few examples: almost all Fortune 500 companies in the US run on "old world" (Germany7) SAP software. Almost all mobile phones run on "old world" (England) ARM designed chips. The worlds best Go player was beaten by…
England is the most modern of the large European countries and is obviously not what OP was talking about. He's right, both the regulations and the culture make Germany not a pleasant place to do business.
Having lived, worked and paid taxes in England for a number of years, I can tell you that England typically is 5 to 10 years behind Denmark/Norway/Sweden.
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England is the most modern of the large European countries and is obviously not what OP was talking about. He's right, both the regulations and the culture make Germany not a pleasant place to do business.
Having lived, worked and paid taxes in England for a number of years, I can tell you that England typically is 5 to 10 years behind Denmark/Norway/Sweden.
Notice I used the word "large".
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Yes, the DoD is behind a lot of stuff but they seem to get it right, unlike most EU countries with gov funded programs that are an absolute disaster. EU taxpayers consider unacceptable that govt funding goes to waste, but in the end gov funding goes to waster anyway because the amount of bureaucracy is staggering and we don't even get internal competition like the US. So we waster money and we basically burn it witho…
The US DoD has a unique advantage relative to their counterparts -- I've worked with a number -- in that they culturally have a very high risk-tolerance for a government org. They will readily spend vast quantities of money on a high-risk/high-reward project knowing that it will likely fail, and they are okay with that. They've internalized the idea that maintaining an absolute tech advantage, which is an explicit ob…
Hmm, interesting. Do you have any read on this topic?