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  • Struggling for workers, Foxconn is giving ex-workers incentives to rejoin

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    blastdoor said:
    For 20 years Apple put all its eggs in the China basket with no plan B if things went way wrong. 

    Now things are going way wrong and Apple is scrambling to make up Plan B on the fly. 

    Sometimes it's really amazing what people can do when under tremendous pressure. I'm curios to see what Apple execs come up with. 






    I’m not sure you appreciate how advanced China is in production. Foxconn is 100,000 workers low and that’s only 1/3 of their workforce. Is there any other country who has that manpower? It’s not as though there can be a plan B unless automation can brought in. 

    I haven’t seen many reports, certainly not recently, about the assembly process. What I did see previously was the process was very tedious, requiring a high degree of skill. 

    I remember a report during the depth of Covid that China built three new hospitals in days to care for patients. That manpower without precedence. 

    No. I doubt there is or can be a Plan B unless you’re willing to accept far less production. 
    danox

  • Foxconn needs 100,000 more workers at its Zhengzhou iPhone plant

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    If the 300,000 is accurate, how many still think the iPhones can be assembled in the US? No chance. 

    Tim Cook said years ago that Apple wouldn't be able to hire that many US employees no matter how long they had. 

    The scale at which China is able to support their economy is quite mind-boggling. 

    It's been just a couple of years since Covid hit, and I still remember China building and opening several new hospitals in a matter of days. 
    watto_cobraFileMakerFeller

  • Crypto holders left holding the bag as FTX exchange collapses

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    Wesley Hilliard said:
    foregoneconclusion said:
    Why would federal regulation of crypto be unlikely? It should have been regulated from the start. 
    It should be regulated, but regulators move at such a glacial pace, all of crypto will likely be bankrupt before anything of consequence passes into law.
    Regulation of crypto would merely legitimize a ponzi scheme, which is, at best, what crypto is. 

    Neither as a database, nor storage of value, does it have a reason to exist. 

    Worth the time and work, however, is the MIT Open Courseware course, at Sloan,  presented by Prof Gary Gensler, current head of the SEC. See YouTube for the lectures, and MIT open courseware for readings, etc. 
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  • Musk tells Twitter engineers to bring Vine back from the dead

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    Skeptical said:
    I detest this guy with the heat of a thousand white hot suns. 
    For your consideration: A thoughtful piece on Musk. 
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/31/elon-musk-twitter-trump-tesla-longtermism
    tmaywatto_cobra

  • Musk tells Twitter engineers to bring Vine back from the dead

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    DAalseth said:
    So he wants this done, and reports are he’s going to fire most of the staff, and this isn’t the only nearly impossible task he wants the programmers to do, and he’s fired the CEO and the board and is running the place single handedly. 

    Oh this is going to end badly LMAO
    Tanking both Twitter and Tesla would be a great ending. Then perhaps take down Facebook as a text focus. 
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