Europe bashing on HN is so lame. A German start-up developed a working mRNA vaccine the same time an American start-up developed a stupid blood test fraud. You wouldn't hear the end of it if it was the other way round. What big tech came out of the US the past decade? The juicer? If it's about Europe, every quibble is used for sweeping blows, when it's about the US, the failures are all swept under the rug.
Fair point, not all, just the hours of ChatGPT got to me. That said I was replying to someone who seemed to think nothing major had come out of the US in ten years and like, well, as mentioned my ChatGPT usage begs to differ.
Depends on whether you are facing a disinformation campaign on a social network or whether you need to crush Russian armor rolling over the border.
Technology is notoriously two-faced. Or zero-faced if you can't produce it. The medieval people didn't have to worry about Facebook memes influencing the clergy and triggering heresies.
"A German start-up developed a working mRNA vaccine the same time"
True, but not very relevant. A continent with 25 per cent of humanity's wealth is expected to produce at least something sometimes.
But just look at the brain drains. How many Nobelists or other important scientists moved from the US to Europe and vice versa? We are losing our most talented people to a better research environment.
There is no shortage of European workers in Google or SpaceX, where the main limiting factor is actually ITAR laws, not lack of interest. How many Americans moved to Germany to work in SAP or to France to work in Arianespace?
