hadn’t been held back by lazy MS et al.

MS is not lazy but working hard to maintain their lead.

How did we manage before cars or smartphones? AWS lambda may not be that useful but it’s only an example. The difference is the entire collection of cloud services.

Whatever is the next step, some things need scale. Google has their own AI chip. I think there are also specialized storage chips. Gates has a company for new nuclear reactors.

But that’s the next step. First somebody has to catch up and establish cloud services in an environment that is as skeptical as the comments in this thread, with less money to burn and a smaller pool of developers.

The magical advantage of hyperscaler is not price but that new business ideas can be tried much faster with no need for hardware investments. They can keep running when a moment of social media attention brings a huge amount of new customers. An outage doesn’t matter if everybody else is also down.

Of course the hyperscaler knows which apps are cash cows, as does the Android team, as do the credit card companies. Europe is not prepared for that future. As the CEO says, we can do what is left, supply chain optimizations, unless there is a fundamental change.

Who is going to finance it? Google and Microsoft barely could break into AWS market. There is a huge portfolio of services to write. 450 million is not much if the others have 4 billion customers.

It’s network effects and the winner takes it all. Google and AWS are only in rhe market because they have a ridiculous amount of money to burn and the customer relations to pry away their share of the market.

Of course it is strategically crucial. That’s why Microsoft and Google got involved. The EU is very late to the game. They must have noticed that China has built a competitor but they didn’t start moving. Europe must invest more than Oracle, who also have money and customers, but not enough.

The problem is that China has one billion customers. If Europe and USA split further it could happen that each company could be too small for the next level.

I would’t call them cloud data centers. Those existing European data centers can’t be what the CEO is talking about when he is speaking of development.

Competition to cloud services like AWS lambda and such doesn’t exist. That’s what has to be developed and established in the market.

Technically he is not wrong. Where should the scale come from? Europe also doesn’t have the software companies that would use the [cloud] data centers [and their cloud services].

The big question is why Europe was asleep while the US were building their dominating position?

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Then think about why it wasn’t a huge issue directly after the election.

Syria was conquered by anti-Hamas forces. Others are also playing chess.

Only if the summary is included in the training data.

After all, it’d be much easier to press on a button that’d kill 10 000 people living 10 000 km away from you than to stab one person to death.

That could be the result of our training. After all, people die for our way of life and we have to cope.

They have a base in Greenland if they want to fly to Greenland. If anything this shows that the Greenland story was just there to flood the zone.

Why does the USA need those bases, especially since they said that Europe should defend itself?

I know the UK banned women’s orgasms

Why? To prevent British women from having expectations?

if it were the same, you wouldn’t have been allowed to make this comment.

It works both ways. Is OP allowed to make the comment because he is more priviliged or because he has less power and is less of a threat?

Remember the McCarthy era. There can be more restrictions if needed.

Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

Good for Europe or bad?

American investors are increasingly acquiring European companies, prompting calls for new ownership models to protect economic sovereignty.

https://slrpnk.net/post/22904041

Only for ‘peaceful purposes’. You have to run nuclear reactors to create plutonium for the bomb. So all peaceful nuclear electricity creates the material for the bombs.

Sweden could join the Euro, but they make sure that they don’t fulfill the criteria to join. Framing this protest as Russian propaganda distracts from the necessary debate.

The total value of US-held European business assets has surged from $1.05 trillion in 2011 to $3.79 trillion in 2024, with nearly 32 percent of European assets currently held by American investors.

And yet that’s less than Apple’s market capitalization. That’s even more worrysome than the takeovers.

What’s missing is the same number for Europe. How many American assets are held by European investors?

The USA is not comparable because they have illegal immigrants who distort the unemployment rate.

There has to be labor shortage for wages to rise. If employers can, they hire illegal imigrants instead of rising wages.

This means there can be bad employment conditions even with a low unemployment rate. Greece shouldn’t have that problem so living conditions will improve.