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Re:Mistral raises €3B by chronic7304 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:35AM (#49606317)
> can you elaborate what are their fundamental flaws that are not fixable by funds?

Culture.

In terms of output, EU working culture is inferior to American/Chinese working culture.

Work life balance is irrelevant for frontier/sovereign AI.

Re:Mistral raises €3B by alansaber on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:37AM (#49606320)
Holy oversimplification. Do you get all your information from the internet?
Re:Mistral raises €3B by chronic7304 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:53AM (#49606460)
> Holy oversimplification. Do you get all your information from the internet?

If you live in France, Germany, Estonia, UK, just walk outside and look at employees leaving their offices?

We need to start shaming individual countries in addition to blanket EU.

Re:Mistral raises €3B by Foobar8568 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:49AM (#49606954)
Lol, and Switzerland has high working hours, but I achieve less in 3 months than 3weeks in Paris.

My US colleagues, like German one,just bullshit on reality of what they produce.

Real problem is more on VC, autonomy and small companies.

Re:Mistral raises €3B by InsideOutSanta on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:37AM (#49606847)
Shame them... for not working their employees into a heart attack at 40?

I'm not sure if your hypothesis is correct. I personally don't think the crazy work hours are what make the US so competitive in tech. But even if it were, it's odd to call for shaming countries for having less insane work cultures.

Re:Mistral raises €3B by KronisLV on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:46AM (#49607468)
> We need to start shaming individual countries in addition to blanket EU.

Reading this gave me a visceral disgust reaction.

I have worked in the middle of the night here to be able to ship prod fixes for meeting deadlines. But that and even overtime should be exceptions rather than the norm.

This better be bait, in which case good job but flagged anyways. Surely nobody would genuinely make the argument that workers should be worked to the bone?

What I personally think could help would be less bureaucracy and regulation in regards to tech advancements (while preserving privacy of individuals), so that the time is used more efficiently, alongside significant investments.

Re:Mistral raises €3B by skeledrew on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:44AM (#49607454)
There is logic to it. The ones who work 12h/day for 6d/week does more than the ones who work 8h/day for 5d/week does more than... It's simple scaling that pays off over time even if the general quality of work by the former isn't as high as that of the latter.
Re:Mistral raises €3B by bossyTeacher on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:40AM (#49606347)
>inferior

Way to reduce a multi dimensional concept into a single scalar value. Care to explain what exactly make it inferior? Try using more than one word if you can.

Re:Mistral raises €3B by tokai on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:21AM (#49607256)
In reality US and China are just not efficient enough.
Re:Mistral raises €3B by ChrisRR on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:08AM (#49609224)
Brand new account, only 1 comment.

Checks out

Re:Mistral raises €3B by v3ss0n on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:10AM (#49692617)
Thats one of the valid point.