And obviously the reason is the lack of labour reform and not the billions in handouts currently given by the US and China which the EU refuses to match because of its brain dead insistence on undistorted markets and fiscal rigour. Ah Politico, such well researched and reasonable journalism, it warms my heart…
Is this the same Germany that last I know allowed bribes and kickbacks on international sales to be tax deductible? We lost so many contracts because the things the Germans did were illegal for a USA company.
I have the typical American of German descent hate for Germany because they threw my family away but now are open for everyone else to come live there (making it a huge 'fuck you and your family specifically love Germany'), but also how truly horrible they behave when it comes to business.
> because its brain dead insistence on undistorted markets and fiscal rigour
The issue lies in the fact that the EU is comprised of numerous countries within a single market. When one nation begins to subsidize a company or an entire sector, the other nations are left powerless, merely watching their own companies struggle to compete against those bolstered by government subsidies. It becomes a game of pouring government money down the drain and destroying any semblance of free market mechanisms.
The US is attracting so many companies currently because they are giving out the largest government subsidies. It's nice that you're advocating for more free markets but governments are moving in another direction. And either a country can match those subsidies or they will see their industry relocate to another one.
You should check out how EU state aid laws work. This is exactly the issue they are addressing and it is not true that we have seen a significant "subsidy race" between different EU countries in the recent past.
Why aren't other EU countries facing the same problems? Also, from the article:
> BASF opened a plant near Dresden that makes cathode materials for electric-car batteries just two weeks ago and has pledged to keep investing in its home market. To secure such commitments, however, local and federal governments have been forced to offer generous incentives. BASF will receive €175 million in government support for its new battery operation, for example.
> Similarly, in June, the U.S. chipmaker Intel secured an eye-watering €10 billion subsidy for a massive new factory in the eastern city of Magdeburg. That translates into €3.3 million for each of the 3,000 jobs the company has pledged to create.
Nothing about European markets is undistorted. The most distorted of all is the view that Europe is declining out of some moral stance. The classic example is how California and the US had to go clean up Volkswagen because local regulatory authorities weren't up to snuff.
The Inflation Reduction Act in the USA and the equivalent measures which have been taken in China but don’t have a catchy name. Both countries are currently giving subsidies to companies at an unprecedented rate.
There used to be a lot of opposition to these kinds of subsidies in the US until China started absolutely kicking America's ass because they subsidize their industries.
Private enterprise really can't compete with governments, and even less so against governments with their own sovereign currencies and the ability to subsidize forever.
Speaking of grounding a helicopter, it reminded me of the Hunt For Red October scene of trying to get a person from a helicopter to a submarine. It always seemed like such a complicated something as opposed to just putting someone in the water to let a diver collect them, which is precisely what wound up happening anyways
I agree but I think that’s because the Terraria presentation focuses more on all the things done outside of Terraria rather than the game itself.
It feels more like "I wanted to do something silly with arbitrary constraints and it made me encounter all these fun issues and build these interesting workarounds."
Meanwhile, Minecraft videos are too often “Look at the cool thing you can do in Minecraft” which you like me probably don’t care about.
Two of three remaining relevant browser engine vendors (Apple and Google) base their browsers in that code base. They could have gone from scratch or used a different base, but they took KDE's. They wouldn't have if it was of bad quality and unmaintainable.
"In consolation, Qualcomm today appears to be looking at in-house core designs again. In 2021, they acquired a CPU startup called Nuvia. Meanwhile, ARM Ltd has been tightening up licensing agreements in the face of financial issues. They’ve even sued Qualcomm to halt Nuvia’s efforts and keep a tight grip on players within the ARM ecosystem. Qualcomm certainly has the motivation to safeguard Snapdragon’s future by bringing core development back in-house. If the stars align, perhaps Nuvia’s efforts will give Qualcomm another in-house core some time within the current millennium."
That's the conclusion of the article you are commenting on.
Ah yes, the famous "if it’s not me someone else would do it therefore the system is to blame and not me". What a great logical fallacy. Your actions remain immoral even if there is plenty of other people ready to be as immoral as you are.
Both. We need both. Robins should be punished and the system should be fixed. Obviously. It's absolutely wild that we had to arrive here instead of starting here.
Personal responsibility is a good principle to live by but a dogshit principle for system design. It's a transparent but common ploy by the corrupt: "let's not fix the system and instead toss a few scapegoats to the plebs while we continue to rob them blind."
If we can agree that humans are imperfect, systems help nudge people towards more perfect.
I sure wish I had perfect willpower to avoid bad foods. But, alas, I am imperfect in that regard so I create a system that prevents bad foods from being in my house. The end result is that my behavior trends toward more perfect than had that system not be in place.
Moral philosophical discussions are fine and we can lament about the moral shortcomings of ourselves and others, but I think the systems argument is more pragmatic in creating real changes in behavior and outcomes.
That’s mixing cause and consequences. A society is shaped by its members not the other way round. The law can punish the most egregious transgressions. It won’t set the global standard. Education and social behaviour set the standards. If you want behaviour to disappear, stop treating them as acceptable.
> For desktop, NixOS will continue to be a niche, like Arch and Gentoo, because of the learning curve. But if you're already running Arch Linux, NixOS is a step in a direction you do want to consider, but may not want to afford with your time.
It doesn't help that the Nix documentation used to be one of the worst I have ever encountered while Arch and Gentoo have some of the most comprehensive and well written Wikis.
Did it significantly improve in the past two years?
> Did it significantly improve in the past two years?
I feel like I can pretty concretely answer with “no”.
The docs are hard to read and don’t cover content well, and the ecosystem split that flakes brought have made it more complicated than ever for a new user to jump in today.
There’s plenty of user generated content out there. Sometimes it can fill in a gap, but most of the time I find that I have to just figure it out myself.
Nix is a cool system overall but the learning curve still seems needlessly steep.
https://determinate.systems seems to be doing good work for the nix community though. Shout out to them for sure.
It's common. Lloyds once charged me overdraft fees twice when I left England and my last debit came before my landlord returned my garanty. They then kept charging me fees for a sub-zero account every month for three months while my account was in the green before finally charging me overdraft fees triggered by their own mistake.
They didn't refund me everything once I pointed it. I'm fairly certain they did it on purpose hoping to siphon out an account with little use.
