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Re: EU countries team up for semiconductor push

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Post by bildung »

TMWNN wrote: post #544
bildung wrote: post #190

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You have to look which countries people are actually migrating from. Net migration to the US from the richer EU countries is about 0, i.e. about the same number of US citizens are moving into the EU as are moving from those EU countries into the US.

>Net migration to the US from the richer EU countries is about 0, i.e. about the same number of US citizens are moving into the EU as are moving from those EU countries into the US. Not true. 10-17% of Canadian, British, Australian, and Swiss scientists move to the US. ( https://np.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/37lgxg/the_... ) These are percentages of all researchers, whether they emigrate anywhere or not. (…

Example for Germany: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2020/10... (German language)

See the line chart at about the middle of the page, with three lines in black, blue and red. The chart shows net migration Germany USA. The red line shows German citizens only, black shows people formerly living in Germany, but without German citizen status. In 1998 there was peak in emigration to the US, but from then on the trend moves towards net immigration from the US.

I'd love to look at your data, but that migration DRC link points to an apparently empty wordpress instance.

Re: EU countries team up for semiconductor push

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Post by josalhor »

TMWNN wrote: post #539
gumby wrote: post #168

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Having lived in both (and being a citizen of neither): quality of life. Your headline salary in the Us is higher but disposable income is often lower. You spend more time managing your life in the USA with less time left to live it. Some people enjoy that of course. I do find the working environment better in the US, and I enjoy my work, but on most other parameters it’s inferior.

> Your headline salary in the Us is higher but disposable income is often lower. At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD ( http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/ ), where "disposable income" ( http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=46 ) accounts for healthcare and government benefits.

This doesn't account for cost of living (I mean running costs), right?

Re: EU countries team up for semiconductor push

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Post by toyg »

6510 wrote: post #578
romanoderoma wrote: post #444

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> English is not about moving to another place but doing business beyond local. There are "only" 379 million people speaking English as a native language. But there are 1.2 billion people speaking English as a second language, which means that there are more people speaking English that do not actually speak "proper" English, than people speaking it because they were born with it. The outcome is that > About 75% of t…

As a dutch subject I have to agree. When Americans talk about social security and healthcare they seem to attempt to do it (read "fail") from a purely selfish angle. What seems like a complete lack of empathy born out of a selfish culture where no one has your back is really just my linguistic shortcommerings. Jokes aside (not really) Its pretty funny if you think about it. Europe wants to build a cute union that nur…

Your view of the EU “wants” is laughable.

The EU exists to matter on the global stage in the age of superpowers, to keep alight the flame of European economic imperialism that was being smothered bu US/USSR (and now US/China). It just so happens that most people here think the best way to go about that, without massive societal upheaval, is to guarantee prosperity for all. There is little “cute” about the project, any “cuteness” you might see is the result of strategic positioning.

Re: EU countries team up for semiconductor push

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Post by joelbluminator »

Glawen wrote: post #584
rakhodorkovsky wrote: post #519

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In Germany it's common for larger, well performing companies to retire older, less productive employees by way of 'Abfindungsprogramm' - programs that offer these employees generous monetary compensation (up to ~2-5 annual salary) in exchange for them retiring early. I know of four people who took such an offer.

And I never understood why a company would do that

I believe it's cost effective, firing these people is usually very hard legally.

Re: EU countries team up for semiconductor push

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Post by akie »

mrtksn wrote: post #330
rossdavidh wrote: post #254

So, as someone who used to be an engineer in semiconductor manufacturing facilities, this reminds me a lot of Sematech. That was a joint venture between American companies in the 90's, when there was a concern that we were falling behind Japan. I'm sure there will be people who try to claim otherwise, but my view from inside AMD (at that time still doing its own manufacturing) was that nothing much ever came out of S…

Europe has some successful international projects like CERN or Airbus. Besides, what are the other options? Europe is in this strange place where collectively account for enormous wealth and power but individually no country is a match to the big boys like USA/China when simultaneously are super unoptimised due to cultural/lingual differences. The younger Europeans I met were all very eager to learn English, so who k…

> ... maybe as the UK is out of the EU the English language can become the lingua franca with less resistance as it is no ones language

I mean, this is never going to happen. Name one country in history that completely switched language without external pressure (invasion or colonisation).

Re: EU countries team up for semiconductor push

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Post by Gravityloss »

jessermeyer wrote: post #201
Gravityloss wrote: post #48

So, what would a new bleeding edge modern architecture and instruction set look like if one could start from scratch? I assume general computing so cell phones and servers are the target.

Agner Fog has been researching this very question. https://www.forwardcom.info/

That sounds interesting. Forwardcom designed for forward compatibility.

Re: EU countries team up for semiconductor push

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Post by bildung »

ur-whale wrote: post #403
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #287

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>- labor laws (very hard to fire people in many European countries) That's just not true now and hasn't been the case anymore since like the 2009 financial crisis. In most of Europe it's trivial to fire an underperforming non-unionized employee as the countries have adapted more business friendly laws to remain competitive after the financial crisis. Sure, there may still be some grey beards somewhere with old bullet…

That's just Austria which is a comparatively small country. In the larger ones (DE, FR) labor laws are a nightmare.

It's not hard at all in Germany, I already had to do it a few times. It's just regulated, i.e. you have to follow a defined process (two written warnings first, only then the dismissal) and have proof of what happened.

The range of reasons include coming too late to work, insulting coworkers and even underperformance.

Re: EU countries team up for semiconductor push

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Post by mrtksn »

akie wrote: post #595
mrtksn wrote: post #330

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Europe has some successful international projects like CERN or Airbus. Besides, what are the other options? Europe is in this strange place where collectively account for enormous wealth and power but individually no country is a match to the big boys like USA/China when simultaneously are super unoptimised due to cultural/lingual differences. The younger Europeans I met were all very eager to learn English, so who k…

> ... maybe as the UK is out of the EU the English language can become the lingua franca with less resistance as it is no ones language I mean, this is never going to happen. Name one country in history that completely switched language without external pressure (invasion or colonisation).

It's not about switching languages but making a language the default when people don't have the same native language.

So instead of dealing 24 languages, EU can make English the default for everything international. Local stuff will continue with the local language but all the international dealings can be conducted in English.

That's pretty much the standart on the internet and the younger generations are already used to it. If a website, an app or a game doesn't support your language you simply use English and it's all good. From the admin side it'a also good, many people who are not native English speakers who want to build projects for the global audience would simply start with English as a base language and localise from there.

It works fine for the most international thing we have: The Internet. Should work fine for the EU too.

Re: EU countries team up for semiconductor push

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Post by dariosalvi78 »

screye wrote: post #335

Genuine question - Has any major tech innovation/ product come out European industry (mainland EU) over the last couple of decades ? (not Academia) Their biggest tech companies are Spotify and Skype. That's pretty underwhelming given that Spotify's biggest innovations are in product development and Skype became a subsidiary of an American company within 2 years of its existence. Additionally, the 2 companies that see…

You know, tech includes things like trains, aeroplanes, biotechnology, power, scientific instruments, chemistry... But yeah, it's HN, tech here means only FAANG.

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Post by emptyfile »

mrDmrTmrJ wrote: post #513
pompeirules wrote: post #485

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> Do you have any references of English actually being phased-out in EU? It's not clear yet if it will be used in official documents after Brexit agreements will be signed, but UK was the only country who chose English as an official language. There's an hard requirement in EU to translate every official document in every language spoken in the EU, if English is not an official language, that requirement will cease t…

As an American, I was surprised by the amount of English education I encountered in European. Though the places I visited: Sweden, Rome, Greece, Netherlands, France, Spain, Vienna, Ukraine, Berlin all have above average levels. Do you see the Brexit changing this? Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_Europe

Actual map of English proficiency in Europe, you're welcome ;)

https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6Ikp...

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