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Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel by erichocean on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:25PM (#23541003)
> Outsource everything OTHER THAN core competencies.

The core competency of the US today is finance. We've been actively outsourcing everything else we can.

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Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel by mikequinlan on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:19PM (#23542325)
I've looked and it seems that our actual core competency (the thing we do better than others) is raise soybeans, beef, and chicken. https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/news/economy/top-us-exports... for example.
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Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel by jfk13 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:50PM (#23541953)
> The core competency of the US today is finance.

Since when? It didn't look very competent in 2008...

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Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel by erichocean on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:14PM (#23542250)
We're not even competent anymore at our core competencies…
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