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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by bllguo on Sunday September 13, 2020 @05:42AM (#24459646)
getting things to work at scale is nontrivial. I would expect hn of all places to understand that

and other industries they have a lead in include drones, solar technology, EV (arguable).. considering the unparalled hardware ecosystem in Shenzhen/the PRD, I expect more and more industries will be getting added to the list

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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by raverbashing on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:27AM (#24459861)
> getting things to work at scale is nontrivial

Agreed, non-trivial but also not rocket science (at least not now - I guess it's easier today than at the beginnings of twitter and fb for example) and throwing money at the problem usually helps.

Agree on the other industries, and maybe their innovation is building things more cheaply than other places (externalities aside)

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