Readit NewsThe EU does not exist as a unit, it's 27 sovereign states cooperating. In the EU the single market is an achievement across countries, but can't compare with single large internal markets.
China as the second economy of the world managed to succeed with a centralised plan.
So I think market size and economic power is a bigger indicator than centralised vs not.
So, your long game should be to forge amicable relations with your next-door neighbour, rather betting everything in your relationship with your manipulative friend on the other side of the pond. In the meantime, you should also become self-dependent.
Russia would love to regain the European land the Soviet Union lost.
If your Member of European Parliament supports chat control stop voting for their parties and politically support their opposition
What's "homini" supposed to mean?
AI and calculators can easily do computation for us, why not take Conrad Wolfram's approach and teach step #1 which is to identify the problem and understand what computation is required to solve it
NVidia market cap: 2.64T
Antitrust issues aside, NVidia could acquire Intel for about 1/30th of their stock. That would result in having an end-to-end platform play like AMD/ATI, about 5x the number of employees, a tremendous number of technologies (compilers, numerical libraries, etc.), massive diversification, and actually rather better fab access in both directions.
Thoughts?
generally, the company was looking for a very unique form of talent driven by a certain attitude and experience. they developed tools for verifying and filtering for it. if you've read any william gibson novels the firm would fit right into something he would describe.
if I were to characterize it, I'd say someone who has been any one of a FOSS contributor, bootstrapped founder, hacker, competitor especially elite level or minor fame in anything, autodidact, amateurist, performing artist, among other high competence bars that demonstrate tacit knowledge, focus, clarity, humility, reflexive curiosity, and related qualities, then imagine a firm that had somehow managed to quietly collect scores of them.
HN seems to attract a cluster of those people.
Reminds me of Vitality health insurance in the UK