They have it because they don't spend on defense like the USA does.
The US taxpayer is the world's golden goose and by means of things like NATO are subsidizing the European socialist healthcare systems.
If the USA cut it's funding in these lines Europe would be back to square one in a very shot time.
> They have it because they don't spend on defense like the USA does.
That doesn't feel right to me.
In the most recent year with data, as a percentage of gdp:
party healthcare military
eu 10.95% 1.56%
usa 17.36% 3.45%
stark difference, but "the only reason eu has socialized healthcare is because of their low military spending" just doesn't reconcile in my mind to the above numbers
The US pays more per person for healthcare than any other nation. This would be true if we doubled defense spending, or if we cut defense spending to zero.
This just seems like the USA's poor spending choices. We could easily have a similar healthcare system as the rest of the developed world, if we chose not to buy all those bombers and aircraft carriers.
I don't know the source of this rhetoric but you should look into the data instead of spewing this garbage. Another comment already put up the percentage expenditure on healthcare between what you consider "socialist" healthcare system, and the USA's corrupt system. You pay more for a lower quality service, the socialised (not socialist) system is less onerous to societies than the middlemen-riddled system of the USA, you get more bureaucracy, less coverage, while paying through the nose for a service you don't even know you will get provided.
It's simply a stupid system, it doesn't work, in a functioning society it would be accepted as a massive issue and reworked. Instead you have your democratic system captured by corporations who need this system to be perpetuated, you are right about the US taxpayer being the golden goose but not for the world, it's the golden goose for whole industries operating inside the USA to work on extracting maximum value from its population.
It's not the rest of the world milking you, it's your own corporations milking you dry.
1 technology has moved on significantly. There are new options, and increased focus will deliver more.
2 if a few hundred million people burn coal while we move up the tech tree it’s not a huge deal. If 7 billion people do, it really is. That’s a big part of why China has embraced solar, hard. It’s a new reality and we need solutions that fit the context.
Gotta wonder if Google has used code from internal systems to train Gemini? Probably not, but at what point will companies start forking over source code for LLM training for money?
It seems much cheaper, safer legally and more easily scalable to simply synthesize programs. Most code out there is shit anyway, and the code you can get by the GB especially so.
I would assume that internal code at Google is of higher quality than random code you find on Github. Commit messages, issue descriptions and code review is probably more useful too.
Some people see an abyss or total blankness, and panic, because they don't know what to do with it and need to be given a purpose. Others see the same and rejoice, because it is the ultimate canvas on which a creative can make things.
The bets on moneybags-centric ML spending has many dead ends.
Draining capital into the wrong ones will be common and easy. Then the bubbles will burst and we will see how much raw capital and debt actually pay out.
