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Yes, we have more vacation in the EU than people in the US.
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Yeah it's such a disgusting mentality to appreciate a work life balance and not have work be your entire world. Such a horrible existence.
Anyway, I'm off on holidays now, enjoy!
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[citation needed] here. The tech sector is still well and alive in EU, and outside adtech (which was hit hard by GDPR - that was the point) doesn't seem to have been visibly impacted.
"The tech sector is still well and alive in EU" [citation needed]
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> Many projects don't make any progress between mid of June and late August, depending on the number and diversity of stakeholders That's what, less than 8 weeks, in a year of 52 weeks, where things progress slower, and this is supposedly a big issue? And even if you know and understand that these other people are humans too, just like you, this is seen as "narcissism" and "selfishness", that they take vacations in t…
you are correct but its also the reason for the lack of EU tech capability and over-reliance on US
If you do do much admire economic success through suffering, can I assume that you have relocated to China? (mainland) Because they sure know a thing or two about that...
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you are correct but its also the reason for the lack of EU tech capability and over-reliance on US
It might be a minor contributor, but it sure isn't the reason. If you do do much admire economic success through suffering, can I assume that you have relocated to China? (mainland) Because they sure know a thing or two about that...
> BERLIN, June 26 (Reuters) - Volkswagen is considering shutting four German factories and ramping up job cuts to as many as 100,000, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday, in what could be the biggest ever overhaul in the industry.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volksw...
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> Many projects don't make any progress between mid of June and late August, depending on the number and diversity of stakeholders That's what, less than 8 weeks, in a year of 52 weeks, where things progress slower, and this is supposedly a big issue? And even if you know and understand that these other people are humans too, just like you, this is seen as "narcissism" and "selfishness", that they take vacations in t…
you are correct but its also the reason for the lack of EU tech capability and over-reliance on US
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It might be a minor contributor, but it sure isn't the reason. If you do do much admire economic success through suffering, can I assume that you have relocated to China? (mainland) Because they sure know a thing or two about that...
if you think the status quo is sustainable, and that Europeans can live a luxurious life fueled by cheap Chinese workers... > BERLIN, June 26 (Reuters) - Volkswagen is considering shutting four German factories and ramping up job cuts to as many as 100,000, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday, in what could be the biggest ever overhaul in the industry. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportat…
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you are correct but its also the reason for the lack of EU tech capability and over-reliance on US
Besides the whole AI thing, what exact "tech capability" is missing in EU or Europe today? Most things been preferable to get from the US as workers are generally abused there for profits, so been cheaper, but capability still exists in Europe and is ramping up. Do you have any specific examples or you're just on the typical anti-EU HN tirade so many of you seem to fall into as soon as EU is even slightly related?
or do you think EU doesnt really need that, it can just rent from the americans
what is the EU frontier AI model?
what is the EU frontier chip fabs?
Real talk, does anyone use anything from Mistral because it performs the best, by whatever secular metric of your choosing? Or is it only used "because EU"? Just focus on answering the question. I wonder if anyone has observed it perform better on any objective metric in any rigorous setting.
For a defense project we're working on, we basically have a hard requirement to use european cloud provider + european llm We cannot use open source LLMs on-prem, I asked. So that's basically a hard requirement to use mistral, even though Chinese models are strictly better on every dimension.