So you have to found Starfleet and hire the nerds yourself. They won’t organize on their own.

90 private jets for 250 guests

It means they are not friends. If you have a big jet, why would you not fly with other guests and already have a good time on the way to Venice?

Tells you how much more style the rich used to have. What good are all those billions today if the place where you live is not as pretty as Venice? Nobody is going to visit his house in Florida in 100 years.

It explains why there is the debate about which toilet to use for trans people. They can see the other sex naked. It would not be an issue if the doors didn’t have gaps.

Thank you.

After Tiananmen they can’t believe in #1. The party showed that they were in control.

#2 is possible but requires that the elite mistakes money for power. I cannot imagine that old money makes such a rooky mistake.

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

China is producing so much steel that the USA cannot believe that they can contain the Chinese navy in a prolonged war.

I cannot pin it down but things don’t fully add up.

Downvoters, for #1? Jelzin was corrupt. Was there something similar in China?

South Africa had a nuclear program and gave it up. Left alone.

How do nukes help South Africa? They don’t have rockets. What do they threaten to bomb that is a deterrent?

Where are those informations diskussed? If the information was out in March then Lemmy as a whole is not good at filtering the relevant news.

About one hour in, he is talking about a three front war against China, Russia and Iran that was predicted in the 1990ies.

Why has the USA allowed China to become powerful? That war could have been fought earlier with a much bigger technological lead.

It’s still possible to ask if Germany could have prevented it.

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

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

edit: Just noticed that my phrasing is bad and could be seen as praise. OP is right, MS is holding everybody back.

I meant to say that they abuse their market domination to maintain their lead.

Look at MS Teams. It was free until Slack was done as a competitor.

MS did things but that’s inevitable. The crucial part are the things that they prevented.

It’s increadible that OP is even downvoted.

It’s two quotes. Miners don’t throw coal into furnaces.

My liberal friends were saying, ‘You can’t expect them to be able to do that,’” Biden told his New Hampshire audience. “Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine, sure in hell can learn to program as well, but we don’t think of it that way,” he said.

“Gimme a break! Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program for God’s sake.”

Better than being a hopeless doomer about everything.

How can any change happen if there is only a limited willingness to perveive reality and analyze it?

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.