throwaway09809 a day ago

Your HN handle is a good fit for your comment

  • simianparrot a day ago

    It’s tongue-in-cheek given how AI-bros seem to think human intelligence is no different from the function of an LLM.

    At least I’m not hiding behind throwaway accounts.

deaux a day ago

Complete, utter bullshit. There are maybe 4 countries in the world with significantly less dependence on US tech. Out of those 4, one has magnitudes more government interference, another one has even more rules and regulations - including even stricter data privacy laws than GDPR - than the EU, the third has slightly less than the EU but also the lowest local tech % our of the 4, and the last one is Russia.

But sure, it's the rules and regulations that are the problem.

If you have any knowledge on the topic I don't need to name the other three.

Talking software as that's the discussion here, not hardware.

  • simianparrot a day ago

    Ok so where's the European alternatives? Where are they? Because in my experience as a Norwegian citizen who has started and run tech companies, we simply can't compete on this kind of tech because energy is more expensive, all the added costs of employment are so incredibly expensive (despite massive amounts of immigration, which only drains our welfare state anyway) and all the EU-based rules and regulations we must follow even when we're not direct members; all of these things and more related to them are absolutely stifling.

    In this environment there is zero chance of an "AWS-like" competitor or anything remotely like it in the tech sector. And if you say "Hezner" I've got a bridge to sell you.

atoav a day ago

Ah the good old unelected bureaucrat-myth. And then you check and the very (usually right wing) politicians rallying against the bureaucrats voted for this or that regulation themselves.