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gregorygoc··on French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic
Just stop transferring wealth to hoarding boomers and problems will solve themselves.
gregorygoc··on Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
Your whole argument is looney. Do you live in the EU?
gregorygoc··on Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
EU is just a talking club for a couple of countries. It just serves as a scape goat for failures of national policy.
gregorygoc··on Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
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-...

gregorygoc··on Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
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-...

gregorygoc··on Mistral Large 4
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.
gregorygoc··on Mistral Large 4
Many European countries provide helplines for people in need. Did you try one?
gregorygoc··on Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation
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.
gregorygoc··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Is EU chips act 2.0 any good?
gregorygoc··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
There will be 2nm in Ireland
gregorygoc··on Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping
Exactly, chess.com is at value extraction phase. Lichess is much better platform now.
gregorygoc··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
What happened in 2011 and why were there no sovereign decisions afterwards?
gregorygoc··on Mistral OCR 4.1
I don’t think any European AI model can reach the experience and productivity of average NSA/CIA analyst.
gregorygoc··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
There’s nothing wrong with creative destruction
gregorygoc··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
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?

gregorygoc··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
Exceptions*
gregorygoc··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
Yes, it is different in Netherlands, Sweden, Poland.
gregorygoc··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
Ah yes, Germany == Europe.
gregorygoc··on Siri AI
Can Apple now focus on rolling back Liquid Glass “upgrade”?
gregorygoc··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
Exactly, well put!
gregorygoc··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
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.
gregorygoc··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
Good question, given that American companies basically threw copyright law into the trash, I think they should.
gregorygoc··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
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.
gregorygoc··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
No, we don’t need US’s Trojan horse in the EU
gregorygoc··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
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.
gregorygoc··on The dead economy theory
Junior employees are not sufficiently competent.
gregorygoc··on Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit
Because they distill
gregorygoc··on The dead economy theory
No
gregorygoc··on Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets
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.
gregorygoc··on Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets
Germany has high energy costs, but back in 2010s they didn’t because they had access to cheap Russian gas.
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