Much of it is from Iran and destined for China. They won’t stop those exports.

In other words, France realizes that they need ICBMs to be taken serious, especially in Asia.

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

Thank you.

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.

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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Only if the summary is included in the training data.

If only Musk would use LSD or whichever drug helps to resolve those issues instead of ketamine.

For those attacks the size doesn’t matter but the willingness of breaking the law. My size argument is that the USA and China will clash. Europe will engage Russia when that happens.

Thank you for your insightful feedback. Have a great WE, too.

So you’re genuinely advocating breaking international law?

No, I just believe that the EU will break the law and attack, like members already did in Libya and Iraq.

I can also say that I was not the one talking about fantasies.

Edit and yes, there is a need to wait for Ukraine EU membership

Is there a reason for that? UN article 51 seems to allow support of other countries if they are attacked.

Too simple for an explanation, they are not stupid.

Ukraine soldiers are trained for 3 months. There can’t be much infrastructure needed for an attack since the battle is on enemy territory when it starts.

Also, surely you’re aware that wars of aggression are banned in international law?

Iraq, Libya and others. At worst we call it a special military operation in support of Ukraine.

That’s why we need to get Ukraine to the EU, so that then it’s not a war of aggression, but honoring the mutual defense clause.

I guess there is no need to wait for EU membership to help a country in need.

Oh and, in which country’s military forces would you be participating in this attack fantasy?

None. After these comments at most they will use me for medical support.

So the laws won’t protect the children. Then why do those laws exist?

That’s why the new weapons are needed, to prepare for an attack.

Why else would Europe need those weapons? Russia has problems fighting Ukraine. How could they fight Europe?

Btw, I say we because any serious war will use the entire population, like Ukraine.