Comments by "disgruntledtoons" (@disgruntledtoons) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. They saw what China did and said, "Hold my coffee."
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  2. The fate of their rocketry program tells the whole story. The chief criterion for promotion was political reliability and not technical or managerial competence. Google "Marshal Nedelin" for an example of someone who incompetent on both scores, and how that worked out for the project he oversaw.
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  3. China's chief advantage in this resource is ideological: They are perfectly willing to make the environment take a back seat to any conflicting concern, whereas western nations often allow even the most dubious claims of harm to force a hands-off approach.
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  4. We've seen that when AMD falls too far behind, Intel gets fat, dumb, and happy and doesn't make much effort to advance its CPU line. For this reason I always buy AMD to help ensure that Intel cannot rest on its laurels.
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  5. The irony is that if Intel and AMD don't both get their ARM-compatible chips running, they will find themselves out of a market. Apple's M1 and M2 have finally enabled Apple to produce a MAC that is price-competitive with Wintel-based desktops, and releasing an ARM version of Windows requires very little work.
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