> We have the best bottle-caps in the world.

Spoken like someone who never walked the Isar river beaches in the morning after a Saturday night in summer. Used to be full of plastic bottle caps from all the party goers, now it's just the metal beer caps that you can easily pick up with a magnet.

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rvnx 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Fair enough, this is actually a positive regulation.

This was more to put on perspective that innovation and gaining market share are the main priority in US/China, whereas in Europe, priority is more on regulation.

For example, one of the priorities here in the EU is to regulate and tax AI companies, rather than to make the place attractive.

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adithyareddy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The chip on the server hosting this comment was almost certainly printed with an ASML lithography machine. I get the sentiment but the bottle-cap meme needs to die. Innovation and regulation are not opposite ends of a slider where you have to pick one or the other.

	▲	rvnx 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm totally on your side that ASML, Airbus and a couple of pharmaceutical companies are great innovators and very special (in a positive way) companies in this world. But still, this is where I slightly disagree, because I feel the more regulation, the less innovation is possible. Here just feeling frustrated when I see that freedom.gov getting censorship of that overall tendency to regulate, rather than to actively promote freedom of entrepreneurship, of expression, of thinking out-of-the-box etc, and this freedom.gov thing is just a symptom of that whole system.

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Rumple22Stilk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Innovation is not correct.

Extracting maximum profit is correct.