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  • Intel to build $20 billion chip factory in Ohio

    payeco said:
    FYI: this is happening in part because $52 billion in federal support for the chip industry was passed by Congress and signed into law. Intel will be getting a grant from the U.S. government as part of the funding. 

    Plus a billion dollars from the state of Ohio.
    So who exactly is building this plant?  

    But, that's OK.   We need to invest in ourselves, our own country, if we want to keep up.   The last 3 decades of austerity have caused us to fall behind in many areas -- not just chips.

    It's a wise use of money:   That $52billion came from not having to throw away a billion dollars a week in Afghanistan.  What did that buy us ?

    This is more than OK. It’s absolutely necessary. The Chinese government does not even think twice about pumping money into strategic industries like this. 
    You know why? It is not to compete with US. China spend more importing chips than importing crude oil. This is it largest import item. 
    The reason why isn’t important though. The only things that matters is they’re doing it. American companies can only compete with competitors receiving billions of
    dollars in free money for so long.

    Not to mention this isn’t the only industry the Chinese government is pumping money into. Clean/renewable energy is another one. 
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  • Intel to build $20 billion chip factory in Ohio

    FYI: this is happening in part because $52 billion in federal support for the chip industry was passed by Congress and signed into law. Intel will be getting a grant from the U.S. government as part of the funding. 

    Plus a billion dollars from the state of Ohio.
    So who exactly is building this plant?  

    But, that's OK.   We need to invest in ourselves, our own country, if we want to keep up.   The last 3 decades of austerity have caused us to fall behind in many areas -- not just chips.

    It's a wise use of money:   That $52billion came from not having to throw away a billion dollars a week in Afghanistan.  What did that buy us ?

    This is more than OK. It’s absolutely necessary. The Chinese government does not even think twice about pumping money into strategic industries like this. 
    patchythepiratewilliamlondon
  • Dropbox finally testing native Apple Silicon version

    Why bother? I switched to Maestral for my Dropbox client and haven’t looked back. It’s supported native Apple Silicon for a while now and it uses a fraction of the system resources of the official client. It doesn’t support binary diff but unless you’re working with huge files that doesn’t really matter. 
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  • Facebook's Nick Clegg says Apple privacy moves are 'commercial land grab'

    What a grimy little pimp. 
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  • 'Fortnite' not coming back to iOS or Mac any time soon

    How much money does Epic stand to lose over 5 years? 
    By my back of the envelope math somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.75 billion dollars. During the trial it came out that Epic makes about $5 billion a year in revenue from Fortnite and that iOS accounted for 7% of that revenue. Seven percent of $5 billion would be about $350 million, times 5 years and you get $1.75 billion dollars. 
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