There are some holes in your story. Samsung and Intel are still way ahead of the SMIC.
China produced some chips, but they don't have a good way to scale it up. To produce these chips they used ASML lithography machines which they can't buy anymore.
and China would have de facto control of computing around the world, at least for a while.
Likely yes, but that's not what I was hinting at. If it looked like China is going to be successful in taking Taiwan, all the TSMC facilities would get blown up.
I didn't check. I sent it right back. It looks like it was some bait and switch scheme, when I received the book I checked the amazon page and there were many other new complaints about this exact thing.
Regarding that ... I recently bought a hefty biography on Oppenheimer - should have had more than 500 pages, great reviews. What arrived was a 50-page small format booklet. Not even books are a "safe buy" on Amazon.
I already said I'm pretty happy with my personal salary and conditions. But my salary is far from typical and most devs here get less than half of that.
If you really earn 500K then your "luxury life" makes more sense, but is even farther from a typical Spanish dev.
Also yeah, I do mean a luxury lifestyle. As in, almost all the perks you’d expect from a holiday package as part of a daily lifestyle.
If you mean those tiny, badly built hotel apartments/suites, then I have a different idea of luxury life.
I used to be happy with a humble lifestyle when I was younger as well, but now with small kids, I want to provide them better living conditions.
Oh sweet summer child…
Do you have some actual argument instead of vague condescending remarks?
I’m a high tech worker myself. Maybe we’re in different markets (I’m in cybersecurity) but it sounds like you’re being swindled.
In a way, I do feel swindled since my direct US teammates on the same level earn about the double of what I do, with lower taxes and lower cost of living. But then I'm actually quite happy with my 200K EUR total compensation if I don't compare.
The problem is that my compensation is rather a big exception. Most seniors I know earn something between 60-80K, with 100K being pretty rare (outside my company).
Lol, what a fine example of whataboutism. We're talking about a procedure to enter NATO and you whatabout Iraq. How about we talk about the crimes of Ivan the Terrible instead?
I give you that US is getting a better talent on average. But I don't believe this is the most pressing problem for EU - there's plenty of talent, there's just a problem in leveraging it.
Personally I don't have an issue with impacting sovereignty of countries like China or Russia, since their idea of sovereignty means suppression of others.
Joining sanctions necessarily incurs a cost in trade. It's understandable that poorer countries which have smaller stake in the war don't want to participate.
Why do you think so many countries want to join BRICS?
They want to join to get funds from the development bank. Not much more.
There are some holes in your story. Samsung and Intel are still way ahead of the SMIC.
China produced some chips, but they don't have a good way to scale it up. To produce these chips they used ASML lithography machines which they can't buy anymore.
This is not going to happen ...