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Comment Re:What are the other 95% studying (Score 1) 76

No disrespect to the Chinese engineers. There's some brilliant guys over there. But there are also very large geopolitical forces that shape our world, and engineering can only do so much and so fast. At the global scale, we're shaped by trends that are very, very difficult to change.

Comment Re:What are the other 95% studying (Score 1) 76

I watched that video. I found it kind of ridiculous. First of all, that low end manufacturing left the US a couple decades ago. Any low value item with a high labor content, or that is intrinsically dangerous, makes more sense to off-shore because Americans get paid more per hour than most other people, and American labor laws are more stringent than theirs. Making commodity bolts is, by it's nature, a low value job and you don't want to do it in America. What matters is, does the US have the expertise to make the machines to make those things, and the US is a major machinery exporter, so yes. And Destin didn't look very hard either. I work for a tool & die company and do a lot of work in manufacturing. The US is a big country and there are lots of people who still know how to do injection molding, machining, and tool & die. Destin just didn't know where to find them, probably because he's too young to have heard of the yellow pages.

Comment Re: What are the other 95% studying (Score 1) 76

That statement is false. The original company founded by the Wright brothers, the Wright Company (est. 1909), no longer exists independently and does not still make aircraft parts.

Here's what happened:
– In 1916, the Wright Company merged with the Glenn L. Martin Company to form the Wright-Martin Company.
– Wright-Martin went through several mergers and name changes, eventually becoming part of Curtiss-Wright.
– Curtiss-Wright Corporation still exists today and makes aerospace components, but it's a successor company, not the Wright brothers’ original firm.

CurtissWright (the successor to the Wright brothers' original company) does have manufacturing operations in CHINA. They operate multiple facilities across China that produce aerospace and industrial components, including actuator systems, valves, sensors, and more.

Comment Re:We really need to push IPv6 adoption (Score 2) 65

Why? I get why anything accessible on the public internet should be IPv6, but it doesn't matter for anything behind a NAT box. Why can't my home setup use IPv4? Or the tiny little network on my mobile robot that isn't connected to the internet? There are tons of cases where an isolated IPv4 setup with static addresses is simpler to setup and troubleshoot than an IPv6 network.

Comment Re:What are the other 95% studying (Score 1) 76

Probably French literature or basket weaving. Seriously, though, the US is a major exporter of highly advanced manufactured products. One of the biggest categories is commercial aircraft components, followed by pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and machinery. The US is a highly technical nation. I wouldn't be worried.

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