I'm gonna ask something stupid, maybe: what is keeping you from having a minisplit in each room ? You don't have to run them the whole day. Just where you are going to be for a couple of hours.

My guess is: the cost of the minisplits, pretty certain if you had them and turned them all on, you could still draw that much power from the grid.

And probably you are underestimating the cost of nuclear anyway.

Some others: SPARC and SuperH.

Might be a good idea to spend a couple of million by setting up a small office of 10 people to work on it in the coming years.

https://matrix.org/ is partly funded by French government.

Network effect is also hugely important.

Takeaway (thuisbezorgd) and Zalando are some pretty large players in the EU markets. Spotify of course.

Booking.com. Adyen. ASML. Messagebird. TomTom. To name a few from a tiny speck of land in Europe. It's not like we lack capabilities.

I think they are doing really well (by their own standards), the job is to destroy the government. They want to get rid of taxes and rules and regulations that prevent them from keeping their money and doing whatever they want.

I don't see that as a business problem directly.

But I see it as the XKCD 2347 problem.

As mentioned above, clearly the market doesn't reward good engineering.

Nobody cares about pirating, it's when the masses are able to do the pirating easily and get the content easily that is when things break down.

That is what DRM is about preventing.

If some knowledgeable people can copy it and put it low-fi on some competitor of Youtube and Google doesn't show in in search results. That isn't that bad. That means the general public won't easily find it.