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Deepmind is a British company (now owned by Google), and are for sure at the forefront of AI from anything I can understand.

Covid vaccines were almost all done by European companies.

Europe is different for sure, and incumbents often use regulations to fight innovation but that happens in the US as well. Internet access for example is a lot better in Europe compared to US.

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> Internet access for example is a lot better in Europe compared to US.

Citation needed. Data I can find indicates that the US does pretty well for speed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...

That said, I have no doubt that the cost of internet in the US is substantially higher than in Europe.

It really depends on the country in the EU. Germany is terrible with Internet speed.

Agreed. I lived in Germany until last year and it wasn't great. Especially since companies there often do only 2-year contracts, or only have higher speeds for the 2-year contracts.

Britain is not in the EU.

If we include Britain, there would be 2 websits in the top 100. A Hungarian porn website and bbc.com

Europe != EU

Britain is in Europe but not the EU.

> There is only one European website in the top 100 websites

spotify.com is swedish, and booking.com is the netherlands. Both of those are part of the EU, are in the top 100, and are not porn websites.

There are more I'm sure, but I know those off-hand.

Can you link to a list that has these two in the top 100 websites worldwide?

Both are not on Wikipedias list of most visited websites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites

I used the alexa top 1m, since when someone says "top website", that's what I assume is being referred to: http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip

Maybe that's stale and there's other preferred sources now.....

But you linked a "top 50" list, which seems obviously useless to make the claim you're making.

Hungarian? I assume you mean Czech (xvideos)? And xnxx (not sure if they're related). There's also a Cyprus based site (xhamster) although I suspect they have substantial operations in not-Cyprus.

Not according to this list:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranking-the-top-100-website...

I just browsed that list and it was hilarious that most of the EU sites were google/amazon country sites. But that list is from 2019.

You said Europe (I think, can't read your comment anymore), and the UK is very much part of that.

fortunately Britain doesn't use the euro

not really related when that's almost 20%, is it?

turns out retaining the ability to set your own interest rates is important

yeah, they use the pound, which is also almost 1 = 1 with the Euro =)

so by almost you mean almost 20% off?

euro-nationalists kept saying after brexit the euro would hit parity

(but they expected it to be against the pound, not the dollar)

lol, ok, fair. I guess people would expect the pound to lose power due to Brexit in the long term

inflation is at 9% tho

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