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Can Lutnick’s Chip-for-Chip Idea Work?

this is a reasonably concise and readable discussion of the 50-50 ASIC production proposal being put forward by the anti-antifa administration. the reluctance of nation states to allow production of the most cutting edge technologies outside their borders is understandable. the fact that we’re making ourselves hostile to the brains that can enable that kind of production on US soil is no understandable. all of this discussion seems to presume an able (read, sufficiently skilled) and willing workforce that can pick up that development in the US.