The EU can’t even distribute a vaccine properly but they’re going to *checks notes* invent a new quantum computer and capture 20% of global semiconductor market by 2030?
Maybe the EU should figure out how to get jabs in arms and then we can talk about quantum computers
Flashback to 2000:

EU announces the "Lisbon Strategy" with the aim of becoming "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010.

Everyone agreed it was a failure.

I don't see why this time will be different unless the EU radically changes course.
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26 Jan
GameStop is the new Bitcoin:

1. Scarce digital asset
2. Recorded on a public ledger
3. No tangible value
4. Traded mostly among Redditors
5. There are much easier ways to transact
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17 Jan
Big week for tech platforms & free speech!

- Twitter & FB banned Trump
- Apple & Google banned Parler
- Amazon kicked Parler off AWS
- Stripe stopped handling payments for Trump campaign

I just wrote a 4,000 word piece on these issues.

Here's a thread with my 10 takeaways...
1. Contrary to what many people have been claiming, no, Big Tech is not more powerful than the government.

The government can tax you, imprison you, and kill you. It can even nationalize private companies.

Tech companies can delete your free account.
2. Trump may be banned from Facebook and Twitter, but he’s still the president of the United States and he has not been silenced.

As @ModeledBehavior reminded us, only 22% of adults use Twitter. (And only 10% are daily active users).

Twitter is not real life.
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26 Dec 20
Almost all the wasabi you eat is actually horseradish.

Almost all the pumpkin pies you eat are actually squash pies.

What are other examples like this?
Almost all the Kobe beef you eat is not actually Kobe beef (h/t @Maxsimile): bonappetit.com/entertaining-s…
Most maple syrup is just corn syrup (h/t @antirobust): washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
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16 Dec 20
The antitrust complaint against Google from the Texas Attorney General (and 9 other states) is out!

This case focuses on the online advertising market (as opposed to the DOJ's focus on the search market).

Thread with some of my initial reactions as I go through it...
Ugh, the complaint completely misunderstands how targeted advertising works.

It alleges that Google is lying when it says it doesn't sell user data to anyone. But that's true!

Targeted advertising works without sharing personally identifiable data. This is basic stuff.
This section contradicts what we know about the digital ad market.

It says that Google is the "controlling node & central authority for online advertising" & its "monopoly tax" leads to higher prices.

But Google's market share is 29%.

And prices have fallen 40% in last decade.
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30 Nov 20
The Moderna vaccine was designed in 2 days in January.

Every smart person was recommending Human Challenge Trials to speed up the approval process.

The US didn't do it, obviously.

Here's the part I still don't get: There are 195 countries in the world. Why did *no one* do it?
(This was not a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely confused — please help!)
We had 39,000 volunteers in 166 countries willing to participate in Human Challenge Trials!

1daysooner.org
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“running a leafblower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a F-150 pickup truck 3800 miles”

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Apparently @JamesFallows (author of the above passage) has been on a mission to end two-stroke gas-powered leaf blowers.

He’s written more than a dozen pieces for The Atlantic on the topic over the years.

Godspeed!

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