Waste of money and this chair clearly doesn't understand game theory.
They were still planning to build a new nickel-manganese-cobalt battery plant? That sounds like the project was in planning hell for 20 years...
Even LFP seems questionable if they aim for cheaper batteries, with sodium-ion batteries likely dominating that field by the time the factory will be completed.
Probably some hack to make it look to the OS like it is charging the battery.
But yeah, why all the silicone? 😱
It is actually a feature as far as bureocracy and diplomacy is concerned. If a language is the non-native language for more or less everyone, no country has an advantage in negotiations due to rethorical skills and so on.
And besides, the only other real options would be French or German, and really no one wants that.
Currently in university or so, and there is a large countryside vs. city gap.
In my experience there has been a relatively recent massive improvement in English skills by the younger generation. Anyone 35+ is still very much behind though. As an elder Millenial myself, it actually caught me on a wrong foot carreerwise as being able to speak English well is no longer considered to be a selection criteria for many jobs, because so many can do it and it is assume a given.
I am sceptical of this... most likely the definition is slightly different between the countries and that causes most of the difference. Like for example one country might count car accidents that happen during working hours into it, while another one might not consider that a workplace accident.
Yeah, everytime this topic comes up I ask if they personally had such an experience or have personally witnessed one, and it is always only some 3rd person story from social media or so. Truely terrifying how people can be manipulated like that.
The amazing part is that most of them will strongly refute this and believe that they are resisting against "the system" and are being oppressed.
Recent models run surprisignly well on CPUs if you have sufficient regular RAM. You can also use a low VRAM GPU and offload parts to the CPU. If you are just starting out and want to play around I would try that first. 64gb system RAM is a good amount for that.
China has a bunch of government aligned quasi-monopolists that try to expand into the European market. What you are suggesting is basically the same model, just with European ones, which is at most marginally better and will likely be much worse (I am old enough to remember when this was still a common model in western Europe, and it sucked big time).
Europe isn't China. It would be pointless to turn Europe into a quasi-China to prevent Chinese influence on Europe. Just like it is pointless to create European tech giants as a counter to US American ones.
They have strategic ones, not tactical ones. Tactical ones are those mini-nukes that stupid people think they can use without it becoming a proper nuclear war real quick. Everyone else (including the French) thinks they are a waste of money.