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Dear Europe, please wake up

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Re: Dear Europe, please wake up

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Post by y-curious »

iamacyborg wrote: post #24
marcinzm wrote: post #22

This misses the big one: California bans non-competes, bans anti-moonlighting clauses and lets you quit with no notice. If you’re at an EU company and need to give 3+ months notice to quit that will discourage starting your own company on the side.

The flipside is your company can't just fire you at will, which is rather nice in this day and age.

I'm not trying to be obtuse, but at what point do the worker protections discourage employment? If I have to pay the huge employee fees associated with the EU, I may just go hire someone in Asia.

Re: Dear Europe, please wake up

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Post by marcinzm »

lycos wrote: post #47
marcinzm wrote: post #22

This misses the big one: California bans non-competes, bans anti-moonlighting clauses and lets you quit with no notice. If you’re at an EU company and need to give 3+ months notice to quit that will discourage starting your own company on the side.

I have never seen a 3+ month notice to quit in the country I live, curious which country this happens in? Sounds extremely ridiculous if true

My friend in Germany got that and had to pay a large fee to leave early to move to the US.

Re: Dear Europe, please wake up

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Post by 29athrowaway »

Europe needs its own tech megacorps. Their own OS, office suite, cloud provider, source control, social media, mobile devices, etc.

The creates the abundance of data required to win at AI.

Because Europe doesn't own its own data, they lack the data necessary to win in AI against others that do.

Creating a EU startup ecosystem without the megacorps is just feeding the American megacorps more because those startups will get acquired by the highest bidder.

Re: Dear Europe, please wake up

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Post by alephnerd »

TooKool4This wrote: post #37
alephnerd wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you’re at an EU company and need to give 3+ months notice to quit that will discourage starting your own company on the side. India has similar non-competes to Western Europe, but is able to maintain an innovation ecosystem.

India is very different than Europe. It would be difficult to attribute outcomes between the 2 countries to just this single difference without considering the many other differences.

Absolutely true, but I'm just pointing out that non-competes are not a major precursor for Europe's laggardness in innovation.

If all of the EU's innovation system is sclerotic compared to Illinois or MA or India where non-competes are vindictively enforced, then there is a major issue.

Re: Dear Europe, please wake up

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Post by jandrese »

dangrossman wrote: post #3

I can't scroll this webpage to read it unless I plug my laptop in. Scroll events have a lag time measured in whole seconds, then the page scrolls down by either a fraction of a line or by multiple paragraphs, so I can't keep track of where I was reading. Plugging in my laptop, which changes the power mode, makes the webpage barely usable, but my cooling fans are spun up to full speed now. This is using Chrome on a De…

It worked without issue on Firefox 125.0.2 on Windows 10, but I have uMatrix installed and didn't allow anything beyond the defaults on the page.

Edit: Went back and tried allowing the firebaseio script, which added some blur to the top and the bottom of the page as well as some light blue elements to the background, but didn't otherwise noticeably affect performance. But it is possible those elements were added via some normally 3D accelerated operation that may not work on all browsers and be painfully slow when not accelerated.

Re: Dear Europe, please wake up

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Post by lores »

ta1243 wrote: post #30

"If you go to the south of France – our hope and prayers in the global AI race – and order a coffee there is a chance that the waitress doesn’t understand the word “coffee”, can’t explain you what’s in the salad – happened to me twice." Oh they'll understand. They will just pretend not to. It's France.

Oh no! Someone in a foreign country did not make any more effort than the author did to learn a foreign language! Not once, but twice! That's it, I'm never leaving San Francisco again.

And as for your snark, no, many French people do not speak English, and a fair number resent Americans going around like they own the place without making even a cursory attempt at being polite.

Re: Dear Europe, please wake up

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Post by Muromec »

I'm not sure what I need to wake up from and what this even is about. The Europe is good, the Europe is bad? I totally don't want to live in another US, because if I wanted, I would have went to the one already there across the ocean. I specifically don't want to work with US-funded venture backed companies and their bullshit, it's not sustainable in the long term.

Re: Dear Europe, please wake up

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Post by seydor »

alephnerd wrote: post #19

A lot of the "Europe is bleh" rhetoric is about Western Europe - specifically France, Germany, and the UK (if they make it harder for European and Asian immigrants to come). The Eastern and Central European countries have always felt much more dynamic and open to work hard. There's a reason why the countries on the lefthand side of the graph provided are also the ones with some of the better innovation industries in…

> The Eastern and Central European countries have always felt much more dynamic and open to work hard.

Yet as soon as they try to take advantage of their position (via e.g. tax breaks) they'll get punished (eg 15% corporate tax rate, what happened to Ireland, Cyprus). Not being a single economy truly prevents competition for capital. So old money stays put where it is , new money is not allowed.

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