Re: [PLUG] The Big Hack: How China used a tiny chip to generate ridiculous replies

[brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

On 10/5/18 3:52 PM, Keith C. Perry wrote:
> Federal government agencies require domestic manufacturing in many if not all cases but I don't think the requirement for technology is down to the chip level for builds.  It may even then be percentage based (i.e. how much of this is build by Americans) but I forget since that decision matrix is evolving.
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> The current situation aside, we have long gotten away from working with our hands in America.  Part of that is because the supply side of the economy doesn't want consumers fixing things and part of that is that, the STEM disciplines don't place enough value on it (certainly influenced by the above point).
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> In my view, far too much emphasis is placed on software compared too hardware or firmware.  The dirty little secret is that **some** companies see technology, especially closed source software solutions, as a way to replace highly skilled technical professionals with products.  This has been feeding the overall frenzy to put money into software  layers and not the full stack- which for me includes the physical.  The idea that you can cloud, virtualize or containerize everything so that you need to pay smart people is stupid and once all this hype passes, will put the appropriate companies at deserved disadvantage or out of business.
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> We did this to ourselves long ago.
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just nitpicking, but technically IBM did this to us long ago. ;)

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