Recently the EU allocated billions to fund tech startups. But if you read the bare minimum demands, you'll see how suspicious it is. Like, you have to have a female co-founder, when everybody in the trade knows it's very hard to find a trustworthy co-founder of any kind.

I haven't heard of anybody getting these funds. I suspect the recipients were pre-selected before the announcement and the criteria was tailored to match them. And I also suspect, in some roundabout way, part of the money will end up in political campaigns or something.

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bee_rider 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

How would you hear of somebody getting these funds? I don’t personally know anybody who’s gotten massive VC funding in the US either, but I think it does happen.

I don’t see any reason to be skeptical of the requirement to find a female co-founder, I mean it is clearly a program to promote equality, but that is an uncontroversial goal in some places.

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klipt 2 days ago | parent [-]

Suspicious that the EU claims to "promote gender equality" while turning a blind eye to the male only conscription perpetrated by EU members Austria, Finland, etc

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bee_rider a day ago | parent | next [-]

It is a lot easier to come up with new rules for a project that requires proactively making investments (where it is assumed they will be selective anyway), than it is to convince a country to change their military policy.

	▲	klipt 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> convince a country to change their military policy Maybe they can't force them but the EU has mechanisms to punish illiberal behavior like the fines they are charging Hungary. They should start fining countries that do make only drafts, at least to start a conversation about it.

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zaik a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Should the EU have the right to reject national election results if the results show no gender equality?

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em-bee 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

it's very hard to find a trustworthy co-founder of any kind

that may be so, but did you check if the funding is limited to teams with at least two or more people? some funds do not allow single founders at all for whatever reason.