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You lost the "au" on the way? 8 could be l33t for B, making it derBauer (the farmer).
More like builder or maker, then farmer.
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> The economies are too integrated for this scenario. This exact reason was put forward by political thinkers in the 1910s to "prove" that a major war in Europe was completely impossible. It was then put forward again in the 1930s to "prove" the same thing; for real that time.
There’s one plausible escalation scenario: Trump wins and America becomes authoritarian state the same way as Russia did, gradually destroying democratic institutions and opposition. In such scenario EU will be forced to reconsider the relationship with America and pursue strategic autonomy. It is still not a matter of days, months or years.
And it wouldn't be the first time Trump specifically caused grudges. The US just giving up on the Iran deal has certainly already done the same. Not only was the EU also a signatory, but so were the UK, Germany and France individually. And then he moved the embassy to Jerusalem, which was also openly opposed by the three I've already mentioned. So now the EU has to second-guess every treaty the US signed, because apparently that signature means less than it used to mean.
But those two past actions would be nothing but a sentence in history books compared to at least a paragraph about the US cutting funding to Ukraine.
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Wow, 5 years later and what have they actually accomplished? Look at the milestones section: https://gaia-x.eu/what-is-gaia-x/about-gaia-x/
This is too funny. What's to stop an American cloud hyperscaler from creating a "properly patriated" subsidiary that it simply licenses the tech to? Wouldn't that side step the "sovereign" protectionism? An American company would run circles around this mess.
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Those are the EU plate letters for each fwiw
Not exactly. Only D and A. Switzerland is not in the EU (it's in the EEA but not EU) and doesn't have number plates following the EU design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
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Highly skilled engineers leave to places where they get their money's worth (i.e. not germany/eu).
honestly if you include other costs e.g. for acceptable health insurance, having children, eating reasonable healthy, general quality of live things etc. the sallies often aren't bad at all Sure if you are one of the best of the best and are willing to take high risk for high reward and in general give up QoL/Work live Balance then especially in SV you have better chances to make a lot of money. But for most skilled…
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The US government can (and for many years did) tap the phone calls of the German chancellor; I don't think getting to data held by European cloud providers is really a big challenge for them.
Regarding the tech aspect? no. But legally it's always has been challenging. And that's where the difference lies Unrelated, I think this also happens the other way around.
Sounds about right ...
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I’ve acquaintances who have done similar things. The wastefulness of EU is the real reason people want their countries out of it. There seem to be zero journalists covering EU shenanigans so everyone just get the news from people in the trenches. While our local politicians gets fired for buying chocolate on the wrong account (true story).
> The wastefulness of EU is the real reason people want their countries out of it. Unless such wastefulness is directed towards your own country! By the way, the only ones who actually voted to quit were those idiot Brexiteers who were not even aware of the EU funds invested in the UK.
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Only if you ignore the A380 debacle, or the bloat that A400 is. And then there is this - [0] Boeing makes the comparison easy for Airbus. [0]- https://spacenews.com/airbus-takes-a-charge-of-nearly-1-bill...
OP is EU has become an open air museum and all the good companies are now either American or Chinese. > Boeing makes the comparison easy for Airbus. What else to compare against this claim ? Airbus is by no means perfect of course, but it is still miles ahead of the best the Americans or the Chinese have to offer in a very complex large scale industry. It is not just aerospace, even auto is still über competitive, Eu…
It's not perfect, but it's competitive and successful. Lots of countries contributed to its success, leaving (most) political issues aside.
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Need a third party citation on that. I'm highly skeptical by the press releases they bring out and seem to be taken over verbatim with very little due diligence. Given the fact they don't even allow public signups outside of DACH im highly skeptical of their claim they're doing billions of revenue in public cloud. It wouldn't surprise me if there is some interesting bookkeeping going on to boost the numbers. The curr…
Cloud&Heat receives GaiaX funding: https://www.cloudandheat.com/news-press/gaia-x-summit-2020/ Teams up with Schwarz group to create StackIT cloud: https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/schwarz-gru... As for the revenue, I would trust a multi-billion international company that if they say billions in revenue, that'll be halfway accurate. Or else, that would be massive securities fraud. Here's their (indepe…
Unfortunately, those links expire after a while. To everyone else: Go to unternehmensregister.de and search for "Schwarz IT KG" (located in Neckarsulm, registered at Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRA 730995) and open the document "Jahresabschluss zum Geschäftsjahr vom 01.03.2022 bis zum 28.02.2023".
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>European market has always seemed like a tertiary market compared to the US and Asia Well, this isn't even remotely accurate on the numbers. For virtually every big tech company the US is about half of the market, Europe about 30%, then ~15% Asian Pacific, and give or take a bit in the rest of the world. Given that most large tech companies are locked out of China or quickly leaving the only large country with compa…
It's about revenue growth opportunities, not current market share. Europe in general is largely stagnant, and seems likely to trend down due to the demographic time bomb. In Asia, South Korea is already comparable to Japan as a technology market (but also stagnating). The big Asia-Pacific growth opportunities are going to be in India, Malaysia, and Philippines.
Africa is the untapped market right now; Nigeria is expected to exceed 400mil (if not 500-700mil) people by 2050. I don't know as much about their economy, so I'm not sure if this growth has translated into the kind of infrastructure which would create more demand for computing services (i.e: I don't know what smartphone or 5G penetration is like there), but I would bet that if it's not ripe yet, it will be soon
Europe needs to solve its demographic pressures by either accepting more non-EU immigrants or doing something to encourage women to have more children, which would require solving for the opportunity cost (i.e: career stagnating or ending) that women bear 90+% of the time they have children, as well as the FOMO issues (which I don't think government can solve)