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Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing by GenerWork on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:28AM (#47153764)
>China also needs to change something drastic to avoid brain drain.

Why does this matter? I hear this a lot but at the same time I look at what's coming out of China, especially in the AI space, and it's clear that brain drain isn't really hampering them.

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Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing by _DeadFred_ on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @12:00PM (#47154224)
It's almost as if you don't need the absolute best and brightest. Heck we used to get by retraining people from other industries to be programmers. I know companies absolutely can't do that now nor be expected to help grow their workers and can only work with exact match H1Bs, but it used to be a societal expectation of companies.
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