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A comment on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing. Parent comment

Re:Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing by manquer on Sunday August 25, 2024 @08:47PM (#41352899)
The flip side is a lot of governance in US which is typically centralized is distributed to states and yet there are 2M federal employees.

Also only country with comparable language complexity to EU is India, so many languages adds enormous amount of paperwork and bureaucracy, US does not simply have to deal with it.

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Re:Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing by AlotOfReading on Sunday August 25, 2024 @09:36PM (#41353209)
1.4M of those are defense, VA, or homeland security. It's not much of a secret that the US has a large military, and it dominates employment numbers. The highest federal employment total was 4.4M at the end of WW2. It decreased to 2M after the war ended, with clear bumps for the Korean, Vietnam, Cold, and Middle Eastern wars.
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