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mft_today at 6:39 PM1 replyview on HN

So China innovated around GPU supply issues (because they had to) but Europe couldn't/wouldn't?

Hard to not see this as another sign of European stagnation...


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simgttoday at 7:44 PM

In no specific order:

- Europe was first to dig up its fossil sources of energy, the bulk of it is long gone

- Europeans got used to roughly clean air, soil and water, heavy industries are polluting

- the embargo is forcing China to vertically integrate, the Chinese have no alternative, Europeans (think they) do