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Comment Re:Hard to tell (Score 1) 322

once the Chinese want to add the rest of the world to their market

That would be yesterday. The rest of the world (not just the USA) is worried about China's monopoly in rare earths (magnetics) and battery manufacturing capacity (of which they have about 80%). Both of these are dual use resources. Both for civilian EVs as well as military uses.

Comment Re:First step. (Score 1) 64

Or if it's developed in China, where gouging for healthcare is prohibited. Already a lot of new drugs are being developed in China, licensed by US Pharma, produced mostly in China, imported to the US, and sold for 10-100 times the price.

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Comment Re:There is nothing "well engineered" in that atta (Score 1) 41

I blame MBAs for that situation, mostly. To people who've never done the job programmers are fungible inputs, like plastic or solder. "A programmer is a programmer, right? If they can write device drivers to make my hardware work they should also be able to create a usable interface to it, build the database, configure communications protocols, and make the whole package secure! It's all programming, so what's the problem?" /s

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