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Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by dismalaf »

foolfoolz wrote: post #558
ismailmaj wrote: post #343

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Pay isn't the main problem with Paris, it's quality of life. Housing near work is mostly old Haussmannian buildings that are rent capped and where demand far exceeds supply, so most of the stock is unmaintained. You either accept bad housing in the city or live in the suburbs and commute — not ideal. To make matters worse, French companies (especially old-school ones) have a culture of presenteeism for white collar j…

pto/vacation, healthcare, and unemployment differences between US and EU mean nothing to high skilled tech workers in the US 1. all good tech jobs in the US have unlimited pto 2. all good tech jobs in the US have good healthcare plans that will continue after being let go until you get a new job 3. you will be able to claim unemployment, but a good tech company in the US will also give you a severance

1. Does unlimited actually mean unlimited? If I want to take 2 months off every year will there be absolutely zero repercussions?

The others are valid though.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by simonask »

dpark wrote: post #513
phenomen wrote: post #499

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That's your fantasy. Reality is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49607443

The reality seems to be that for decades Europe gave only lip service to decoupling from American tech infrastructure, but in the last couple of years America has gone from being seen as a strong ally to being a major risk. It will take time to move. Frankly as an American I hope it takes a long time and we get our shit together and rebuild our alliance with Europe. But it’s possible that the damage is not reversible…

Also, what lip service, exactly?

This is what I mean: Americans don’t understand the immense dividends they have enjoyed from being the defacto symbol of “progress” in the 20th and 21st centuries so far. American solutions were chosen by European customers because they were reliable trading partners with an air of modernity. Homegrown was seen as the antithesis to leapfrogging into the future.

People celebrated when McDonald’s came to their country or town. Not anymore.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by simonask »

stickfigure wrote: post #542
celsoazevedo wrote: post #538

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I'm not sure if it's really a "trump agenda". The ideas didn't start with him, the people who voted for said ideas aren't going to suddenly disappear, and this is his second term. It looks more like part of the new normal from the outside, and that's why things are changing. A country can't go from reliable to unreliable partner every 4 years without any consequences.

Even the people that voted for Trump didn't sign up for this, which is why his approval ratings are terrible even by historic standards. He didn't run on a platform of "attack Canada and suck up to Putin". Most Americans are very pro-European. Most of the voting population has living memory of the cold war. As to what happens post-Trump, it's anyone's guess. I expect a hard reset. Markets have short memories, as they…

Hedging your country’s future on American presidential approval numbers is political suicide in Europe, as it rightly should be.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by foolfoolz »

dismalaf wrote: post #561
foolfoolz wrote: post #558

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pto/vacation, healthcare, and unemployment differences between US and EU mean nothing to high skilled tech workers in the US 1. all good tech jobs in the US have unlimited pto 2. all good tech jobs in the US have good healthcare plans that will continue after being let go until you get a new job 3. you will be able to claim unemployment, but a good tech company in the US will also give you a severance

1. Does unlimited actually mean unlimited? If I want to take 2 months off every year will there be absolutely zero repercussions? The others are valid though.

unlimited does not mean unlimited because then you would take 365 days off each year. it means you don’t accrue or worry about a balance. i work at an “unlimited” company i see most engineers taking 25-30 days of PTO. it’s a bell curve and there’s outliers on either side but 4-5 weeks/year is quite reasonable

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by Grombobulous »

madeofpalk wrote: post #303
riffraff wrote: post #152

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I am not sure it's correct to lump apple and Mistral's strategies together. Apple's business is selling hardware/services and their stores, but Mistral's business is AI. Apple's strategy seems to be "wait till real business shakes out" but Mistral's strategy seems to be "go after profitable niches and avoid unwinnable fights".

The other part of Apple's strategy is "lets not waste money doing all that expensive research - lets just pay them for the finished result and save money".

Is that really part of Apple’s strategy? They have recent examples of moving a whole bunch of stuff that requires a lot of research in-house. You’ve got stuff like their silicon, cellular modems, Vision Pro, the health business, etc.

Really Apple is pretty R&D heavy when it comes to their hardware business.

I think it’s more accurate to say that Apple sees itself as a consumer solutions provider first while a lot of the companies in the AI race are heavily focused on B2B.

The frontier AI model race is about being the first to be able to sell solutions to companies that will replace their workers and make their workers more productive.

But for B2C, the value potential just isn’t there, which is why Apple isn’t chasing it.

And now you’ve got the Mac mini/Mac Studio situation where Apple is better off selling pickaxes.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by simonask »

phenomen wrote: post #499
simonask wrote: post #439

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> In the event of some schism … In the views of most Europeans, that schism already happened. Europe was perfectly happy to rely on US software and services for decades. None of the large US tech companies would be nearly as profitable if they hadn’t had a whole continent of wealthy customers, and no competition. I don’t think Americans are realizing yet how much has changed for us the past two years.

That's your fantasy. Reality is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49607443

2 years is not a long time. What I’m telling you is that sentiments have changed dramatically, and every government and company board across the continent is taking actions to position itself according to those sentiments.

You won’t see the full effect of that for at least a decade, but that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by weberer »

utopiah wrote: post #195
dist-epoch wrote: post #172

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> with Pax Americana looking increasingly shaky. that is being replaced with Pax Silica https://www.state.gov/pax-silica

This "Non-Signatory Participants : Taiwan *" is so weird precisely because Taiwan is the one who started the Silicon shield few years ago by making TSMC central to the whole ecosystem.

Its a roundabout way of not recognizing Taiwan as an independent country. The USA officially has a "One China policy".

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by weberer »

foolfoolz wrote: post #558
ismailmaj wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pay isn't the main problem with Paris, it's quality of life. Housing near work is mostly old Haussmannian buildings that are rent capped and where demand far exceeds supply, so most of the stock is unmaintained. You either accept bad housing in the city or live in the suburbs and commute — not ideal. To make matters worse, French companies (especially old-school ones) have a culture of presenteeism for white collar j…

pto/vacation, healthcare, and unemployment differences between US and EU mean nothing to high skilled tech workers in the US 1. all good tech jobs in the US have unlimited pto 2. all good tech jobs in the US have good healthcare plans that will continue after being let go until you get a new job 3. you will be able to claim unemployment, but a good tech company in the US will also give you a severance

>1. all good tech jobs in the US have unlimited pto

Its usually 15 days paid time off, and unlimited unpaid.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by foolfoolz »

weberer wrote: post #568
foolfoolz wrote: post #558

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pto/vacation, healthcare, and unemployment differences between US and EU mean nothing to high skilled tech workers in the US 1. all good tech jobs in the US have unlimited pto 2. all good tech jobs in the US have good healthcare plans that will continue after being let go until you get a new job 3. you will be able to claim unemployment, but a good tech company in the US will also give you a severance

>1. all good tech jobs in the US have unlimited pto Its usually 15 days paid time off, and unlimited unpaid.

not the good jobs. not the jobs that were comparing to mistral level equivalents in the US. i haven’t had metered PTO since 2015 and everyone i know is the same

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Post by [deleted] »

foolfoolz wrote: post #564
dismalaf wrote: post #561

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Does unlimited actually mean unlimited? If I want to take 2 months off every year will there be absolutely zero repercussions? The others are valid though.

unlimited does not mean unlimited because then you would take 365 days off each year. it means you don’t accrue or worry about a balance. i work at an “unlimited” company i see most engineers taking 25-30 days of PTO. it’s a bell curve and there’s outliers on either side but 4-5 weeks/year is quite reasonable

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