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Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by pokot0 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:13AM (#26902983)
This is the key people often overlook. If we stop using our AI geniuses to develop tracking algorithms and start building automation, we can have nextgen factories in the West. The environmental factor is yet to be solved though. For the most part, developing countries are trading environmental damage for money. Not much different from harvesting oil or other resources to an economist.
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Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:21AM (#26903741)
Physical manufacturing doesn't have the sort of profit margins that software provides. You can't give devs the kind of pay many expect when there are 10x more people in the production chain. Investors aren't going to flock to such businesses.
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Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by pokot0 on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:56PM (#26916699)
Inverstors are very short sighted. I am advocating for a 100 years plan. You can't expect a bunch of greedy boys to plan for returns after they are dead....
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Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by moneybaggins on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:05AM (#26903571)
Well let’s see, work in adtech and make $1M TC and get treated with kid gloves by the company or work in industrial engineering and make $100K and be a cost center. How do we change the incentives? Ban advertising and tracking? But making the alternative more attractive is out of the cards...
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Re:Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal ... by pokot0 on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:54PM (#26916678)
I know and I agree. It's hard. But don't tempt me on banning ads! :P

If you look from the outside, as a society we are using a lot of our best brains for very frivolous things. I wish for a more efficient way of using our minds!

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