gregorygoc
Re:French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of int...
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:00AM (#50315282)
Just stop transferring wealth to hoarding boomers and problems will solve themselves.
Re:Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:28PM (#50200567)
Your whole argument is looney. Do you live in the EU?
Re:Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:22PM (#50200489)
EU is just a talking club for a couple of countries. It just serves as a scape goat for failures of national policy.
Re:Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompe...
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:52AM (#50002193)
EU capped credit card fees precisely for this reason[0]. This news never gets out, because “Europe bad, the USA great”.
[0] - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/fees-for-...
Re:Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompe...
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:49AM (#50002173)
EU capped credit card fees precisely for this reason[0]. This news never gets out, because “Europe bad, the USA great”.
[0] - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/fees-for-...
Re:Mistral Large 4
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:42PM (#49981713)
Ah yes. Let’s thank the might US for providing pesky Europeans capital a fistful of dollars. But maybe let’s do it after Americans thank for Russian, Arabian, Chinese, European capital and workforce. After all this is what “Made in the USA” means.
Re:Mistral Large 4
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:38PM (#49981677)
Many European countries provide helplines for people in need. Did you try one?
Re:Europe's new robotics unicorn: Germany's RobCo hits $1B valuation
on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:53AM (#49966518)
After WWII Europeans decided to build an egalitarian society and focus on wealth creation, peace and cooperation. Pre WWII they were just too much for the world, as the concentration of powers, including clash of ideologies and need of survival, led to ultra competitive environment at a cost of aforementioned values. They were a leading edge once, due to continental race of industrialization. Because of this structure basically 80% of the world was under European rule. They just prefer watching from the backstage now. Let’s pray this continues.
Re:ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @06:35PM (#49861222)
Is EU chips act 2.0 any good?
Re:ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:02AM (#49856128)
There will be 2nm in Ireland
Re:Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping
on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:19AM (#49693085)
Exactly, chess.com is at value extraction phase. Lichess is much better platform now.
Re:Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:12AM (#49573951)
What happened in 2011 and why were there no sovereign decisions afterwards?
Re:Mistral OCR 4.1
on Friday August 14, 2026 @07:31AM (#49297370)
I don’t think any European AI model can reach the experience and productivity of average NSA/CIA analyst.
Re:Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:30PM (#49158879)
There’s nothing wrong with creative destruction
Re:Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
on Friday July 03, 2026 @05:09AM (#48772733)
It appears it’s pork, which lands in China. Current corrupt government is fighting tooth and nail in order to not start a trade fight with China at EU level.
You do realize that when a term was coined many years ago its definition might be broadened?
Re:Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't se...
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:43AM (#48671580)
Exceptions*
Re:Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't se...
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @01:19PM (#48662964)
Yes, it is different in Netherlands, Sweden, Poland.
Re:Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't se...
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @10:05AM (#48660087)
Ah yes, Germany == Europe.
Can Apple now focus on rolling back Liquid Glass “upgrade”?
Re:Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:12PM (#48339669)
Exactly, well put!
Re:Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:15PM (#48330022)
It’s not that I don’t agree with you, I am just pointing out why it’s hard to catch up to scaling laws given the European economic (capital) and political (US would be upset if they found out Europeans distill) constraints. China is only bound by economic constraints.
Re:Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:11PM (#48329986)
Good question, given that American companies basically threw copyright law into the trash, I think they should.
Re:Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
on Friday May 29, 2026 @05:40PM (#48329675)
Big tech has remote offices in every major European economy, and they pay well above top 90th percentile of market rate. It basically has a talent sucking effect on the entire economy.
Re:Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
on Friday May 29, 2026 @05:37PM (#48329642)
No, we don’t need US’s Trojan horse in the EU
Re:Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
on Friday May 29, 2026 @05:34PM (#48329610)
EU big nations getting marginalized: haha. The only reason there’s no US-like tariff on Chinese cars is because Germany was too scared it would lose its access to Chinese market.
Re:The Dead Economy Theory
on Friday May 29, 2026 @04:41PM (#48328952)
Junior employees are not sufficiently competent.
Re:Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
on Friday May 29, 2026 @03:41PM (#48328215)
Because they distill
Re:The Dead Economy Theory
on Friday May 29, 2026 @01:49PM (#48326707)
No
Re:Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets
on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:45PM (#48098146)
If someone had guts (not the current governments) they would split the Germany into zones and all the Bavarian whining about “ugliness” would fade rather quickly when the prices went up.
Re:Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets
on Monday May 11, 2026 @12:45PM (#48097394)
Germany has high energy costs, but back in 2010s they didn’t because they had access to cheap Russian gas.