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Biggest issue as a US manufacturer myself. Support/sales/service.
Chinese shops are very pro customer service, and the large ones I work with are amazing. American shops are god awful in comparison. Designs take weeks to get manufacturing feedback on, if they care to respond to you at all because you aren't in some imaginary box of customers that they want. In many cases if you aren't coming with them immediately with a purchase order of a million units, they just ignore you.
But yea the blockers in the US are immense for more US business growth. If anything in the next 10 years we will see more collapse of US manufacturing as baby boomers sell off their businesses. Nobody under the age of 50 can afford to start a new manufacturing business without VC funding. The cost of real estate is bonkers alone (unless you try and build out in bumfuck nowhere, in which case you now have labor shortages), and the numerous layers of certifications that buyers want you to hold for corporate checkbox ticketing is the cherry on top.
Chinese engineering labor is dirt cheap. They don't need your design files to make a clone.
And contrary to popular white-washed belief, there is very little to anything special in most copied designs.
There is a singular gerber standard, the deviation is generally just caused by CAM tools.
Scraping the barrel for votes,, while it is an issue a few people are passionate about, I doubt its going to win anyone ever across party lines nor get any additional people out to vote lol.
If that account was truely forgotten about, there is no way it wasn't closed and simply sent to the relevant state Unclaimed Funds group of the state treasury where it waits to be claimed for quite indefinitely.
Not sure there's much value in training the AI on the executives playing golf. Lol
Well like the very short 3D-TV fad, I can see a big sudden goldrush into AI powered robots (more than companies are in now).
It is also possible they all pivot to copying Neural Link and upselling the whole world on brain implants that the oligarchs can control.
But it doesn't funnel billions in government money to the private sector.
We are seeing the benefits in real time in this release if those images mean anything lol
O Lord, the next wave of desperation, now they all have to "solve" some challenging math problem.
Can't wait to see how late to the party Google is with this one later on. Lol
The entire stock market is being held up by AI. Any company that is not AI for the last 5 years has been declining or flat. But are retirement funds really impacted by the bubbling bursting, or are they simply correcting back to the real economic condition for the majority of the country.
> but is who ultimately owns the downside risk of the AI infra boom?
The US taxpayer for the inevitable corporate bailouts.
So the cold call emails that I regularly mark as spam will get slightly more personalized and less templated?
Sounds like a great use of tokens.
Well, either corporate security got incompetent or they intentionally let select leaks exist to "test the market response". Established companies tend to get more risk averse overtime.
Only if they can find a way to dress up their financials for the IPO filing. They don't want to get WeWorked.
I wager the stolen electricity part. The cartels have historically have even forced employees of utilities to hook them up on cellular towers at gun point.
Apple's own TOS allows them to datamine your data to sell you ads the same as anyone else.
PCB design is no bottleneck. These services are solutions in search of a problem.
There are already millions of vendors all over the world making infinite variations of PCB designs for the same/similar product. You can hire a design shop in China for peanuts to make a variation as well.
Ultimately the bottleneck is the consumer does not care for infinite variations. The vast majority just want a "top rated product" at the lowest price. Which is whatever Amazon sorts their results as or whatever the Jones are buying that they need to keep up with.
The biggest driver of "unique product" (not just the 9 millionth clone product) commercial success is marketing, it is branding, it is finding a unique niche, it is timing, it is existing social & business relationships to drive sales.
Or you know, just stalking exs using Flock like most cops charged with wrongdoing have been.
At least they aren't blaming millennials still.
That is exactly why the bond yields keep rising.
Small businesses result in innovation. There is little innovation from big business whose entire mission becomes profit maximization once sufficiently large enough. The little guys are that ones that come with new ideas and move fast to grow it. This is the entire story of startups in the US, silicon valley and more.
Big business also drives down wages way more than small businesses. When you are one of the few major employers in an industry, there is zero need to pay more while sucking in profit. Sure, maybe you could get an union involved but you are still subservient to the same employer who no longer has to respond to any labor market pressure other than quelling the union once in awhile.
Innovation in the US is mainly how many more creative ways they can suck money out of consumers.
>In 2026 it is virtually impossible to quickly move money from one account to another because every single bit of it has to pass through the US Federal Reserve's ancient systems
Which is why FedNow went live in 2024. In 2025 it already completed processing of $864 billion in transactions in real time.
https://www.frbservices.org/resources/financial-services/fed...
2026 is already looking to exceed $1 trillion in transactions.
Which was never really a problem before cryptocurrencies. Nor does it any way address the core issue we have with physical currency, taking out loans now, against future wealth generation, which is happening in the crypto space too.
Chrome Windows, zoomed in on paris, france. Click the restaurant filter for search. The tab froze, tried multiple times. :3
I love when Google maps in the NY metro area makes me want to take a left-turn, at a stop sign at intersection with a 6 lane road that doesn't get a stop. Yes, these insanities exist and are basically fucking death traps to attempt lefts.