Is it just because it is (or was) more cost effective? I mean EU has tons of talent, so it's hard for me to believe it's a lack of resources
Maybe it is too costly or too difficult to start up in the EU?
I haven't done too much research myself. I don't know the stories of anyone who tried to compete against palantir/google/boeing/etc
We have plenty of talent here to build stuff ourselves, and frequently do.
If I’m honest I’d guess lobbying and/or trade deals where we often agree to buy smth from the US.
A recent one is NHS (UK healthcare system) and Palantir, which makes no sense to hand over core medical data to an outsider. That seemed a clear lobbying case.
We have nothing to gain, anywhere on the planet, from more and more closure.
It's so sad that we're still stuck globally with so many dictatures and non-representative quasi democracies like presidential and semi presidential republics, all waiting for the right strong man to push it.
America's founders fucked up with their presidential approach of making a single, hard to remove person, hold executive power.
Say what you want, but it hasn't been since Sri Lanka 50 years ago that a parliamentary republic turned authoritarian. Every single others have been presidential and semi presidential ones.
Electing kings seems worse than having ereditary ones, they can even claim popular mandate...
Ahhh, this old trope. Fork it - trivial to do when you have consensus.
They
- have the data of yesterday
- have backups of the data of yesterday
- are going to write today's data on top of it to continue the chain
(insert magic here)
- somehow we are super sure, tomorrow, that today's data has not been tampered with
If somebody can shine some light on the magic part, I'm interested
You don't have to guess, that's exactly what the headline says: "...over fears of national security leaks". And several times in the body of the article.
Why doesn't the Trump admin open up it's data to inspection by European, Chinese, Russian etc auditors? What does it have to fear?
The point is that if the hashes of the blocks are published, you can't later go back and tamper with that data.