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Still better than the 4/0.5 Mbps DSL provided in my area in Germany.
Oh wow. I can't actually remote work on 0.5 upload. Need minimum 4 to talk to people! Although people rave about 1gb, I don't pay for that much as I have no need. I am not downing Llama every minute. A reliable 100 is plenty fast.
Neither can we... :'(
The authors examples of “Digital Mittelstand” companies are not businesses at all but tiny “creator economy” side projects. These do not scale to 30% of GDP in the same way high value B2B industrial equipment does (in manufacturing you happily pay $100,000 for a piece of machinery because it can turn inputs into more valuable outputs at scale). Instead of coming up with incorrect ideas about what the government shoul…
Yes, but what if the big-software type economy isn't actually that useful? Maybe you can grow it to 30% of GDP if you start doing a bunch of bad stuff, but if it can be replaced by open source local stuff-- if it's possible to simply kill facebook, Microsoft etc. and replace them with Linux together with a couple of not incredibly expensive software packages developed to provide a substitute, then why should we have…
A European FB or alternatives for literally every US Big Tech product already exist, all of them OSS.
Even search (Google) now became much easier to replace with LLMs.
What it misses is solving the chicken and egg problem, basically getting people to use it.
Without its people, social networks are useless. The same is search.
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Germany has a viable economy. It's one of the strongest, most diverse in the world. It's in a recession right now, but we're talking about fluctuations in the 1-percent range here. If you think Germany is anything close to a failed state then all I can tell you that you either fell for lies or intentionally spread lies yourself.
A change from 3.7% to -0.3% is not in the 1-percent range. It's a decline of more than 100%, as all the growth is gone. Their economy has been sliding for years, the only change in trend was when they were helicoptering covid cash. They are done for, they won't recover.
They can as well make insulin $1000 a pop, so everybody with diabetes will need to pay more, GDP up!
Oh wait, Germany doesn't even have a huge chunk of their population with diabetes because Germans don't live off mountain dew and cheetos...
Definitely, Germany has no future!
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I did, it was super easy.
It takes months and you’re required to go to a notary at least twice and you have to put down 12500/25000EUR. This is absolute nonsense. In the UK you can open a limited company with 12GBP in a matter of days. Oh and it’s completely online, something which Germany will never have in the foreseeable future.