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by uytrhyujkujhy 16y ago
That was sort of my original point, much of the US high value engineering (defense/transport/infrastructure) is for the US government. Which means that the more the taxpayer spends on overpriced defense contracts and cost overruns the bette
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by uytrhyujkujhy 16y ago
So apple can buy the CPU for it's iPad from Samsung for less than Samsung can????
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by uytrhyujkujhy 16y ago
Not any more, you can get chinese 2 channel 50-60MHZ DSOs for $250. If you do your homework you can find the same ones that are badged HP or Agilent here
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by uytrhyujkujhy 16y ago
From a macro economic point of view it doesn't matter If your stealth bomber uses $100 parts made in the USA or $10 parts from china with the difference going in the CEOs bonus - doesn't make any difference when the taxpayer is billed $100
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by uytrhyujkujhy 16y ago
Then that shows that the US industrial output is bigger. That's why Germany makes $50,000 cars and Mexico makes $15,000 ones
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by uytrhyujkujhy 16y ago
It also misses a lot of chinese industry. It's somewhat harder to track the business operations of a Chinese army owned construction company than a US NYSE listed engineering firm. In $ terms there is also a big gap. The Boston big dig cost
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by uytrhyujkujhy 16y ago
It's not necessarily good though. A multi-billion $ weapons system built in America for the US taxpayer, even if it is never deployed or even abandoned, counts as a $Bn manufacturing output. As a famous economist said - from a GDP point of
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by uytrhyujkujhy 16y ago
My first embedded chip had 256bytes of memory and 16 instructions
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by uytrhyujkujhy 16y ago
chin splints presumably from your jaw dropping?