For most of their existence their much larger Arab neighbors (who had the backing of a superpower) had the explicit and oft-stated goal of destroying Israel. Those weren't idle threats: several wars were fought under that banner, one of which was almost successful.
While they currently have a somewhat more secure position, due to peace treaties. They remain unpopular, and a governmental change or revolution could easily put them under intense threat again.
> You should only be buying from an American supplier, even though we just spent 30 years shutting them all down
> Factories won’t be growing up out of the grown churning out parts in 6 mos because of this
If you wanted to reverse the trend of all the American suppliers getting shut down, and re-build the American manufacturing base, what actions would you take to accomplish that?
Eliminate tariffs (and non-tariff barriers) and convince manufacturers they'll stay gone. Separate health-care payments from employment. Ensure that there's an adequate supply of vocational training. Add two zeroes to housing starts everywhere the median house price exceeds three times the median income. Nothing that isn't patently obvious, in other words.
People that work in manufacturing in America are better described as “assemblers”
The skills to design and “ship” new manufacturing process do not exist here. A dictatorship invested in skills training, with the help of American government (there’s a paper trail in government records leading back to Reagan PAYING to export manufacturing. Not just tax breaks but giving cash money to invest in building new overseas; cause supply side demanded it. I’ll leave it to the reader to investigate under their own agency).
IMO Tesla is leading a revival here, or at least trying to. Cars and their battery/solar work is what people see them as: bleeding edge energy and manufacturing
Wall Street seems to think they’re just a car company. Which is, again IMO, what people shorting Tesla are confused about
People with a clue realize it isn’t just cars and battery pack sales alone
> (a) does not harm China, as intended, as they are still the only viable place to purchase these items, yet (b) actively harms business in the United States, as we are paying the additional cost ourselves.
There's an important qualification: that's probably only true in the short or medium term. I believe the goal is that the higher cost would produce economic space for competitors to enter the market.
Ironically, I believe the WTO rules allow for countries classified as "developing" (like China) to maintain high tariffs to develop local industry for precisely this reason.
Downvotes for asking someone for evidence of a guarantee of what someone is going to do in the future? I long for the days before HN became an ideological battleground.
> What I don't understand is the response. The burden of this cost has entirely been placed upon US businesses
I don't think that's true, which is proven by the fact that China is strongly opposed to the tariffs and plans to retaliate with their own. China's exports will go down, so it will cost them too.
If the USA goes up 25% and then China goes up 25%, then it will impact China's GDP far more than USA's. China's economy relies much more on trade with the USA than the other way around.
> Developers are the only people Apple really needs to make Macs for and that's a pretty small market in the grand scheme. Creatives doing photography, 3D, video, etc. have long left for other platforms. I don't expect things to get much better.
Apple alienated the creatives and it seems like they've started alienating the developers, too.
If the Mac platform becomes nothing more than part of a development kit for iOS apps (sort of like developer version of a video game console [1]), it will be a sad day.
> let me piggy-back, is Apple going to have proper HDMI ports in future? Im going surface book the moment my current macbook stops working.
Unlikely. That would require a 180 degree change of direction. Apple has decided that fewer ports in kind and number is what they're going to do, and I don't really see them responding to external feedback (and basically admitting to a mistake). They're too insular. Case in point: there have been loads complaints for half a decade about the current Mac Pro, and all we've seen so far is a souped up iMac and vague promises.
MIPS was in bad shape when Imagination acquired them. Then, not long after, Imagination's GPU business was starting to go downhill, so they couldn't focus as much as they may have wanted on MIPS CPUs. Also MIPS failed to gain traction with Android, just as x86 did. And then Apple dumped Imagination's GPUs, which was basically a death sentence for the company, so they had to get rid of MIPS.
Wave looks like a pretty cool startup, but I'm not sure how helpful MIPS architecture would be to them. The biggest benefit is probably not getting sued by Intel or other large players.
Hopefully they're laying conduit with new road construction. I read somewhere that there are proposals to mandate that (can't remember if it was state or federal level).
AFAIK in Germany you are required to allow others to lay stuff in the hole if you dig the street up. So if fiber is not placed in there, that means no one is willing to pay for just the fiber, which is only a little part of the cost of doing full FTTH. Oh well, if the distance was more than the 5 or so meters recently in the neighborhood, I might have considered just placing an empty pipe with fan-out/splice boxes at the ends into the hole. But for just 5m it's hardly worth the effort.
> So... two of the routers affected by the recent VPNFilter malware? Interesting choice.
If you're looking for a router that's never had a documented security flaw, you're probably going to buy a no-name brand that's full of them (because no one's looked yet, so it has a "clean" record).
The factors that you really need to look for are 1) good engineering practices for security, and 2) prompt and effective response to flaws. 1) can hard to verify completely, but you can get a sense of 2) based on patch cycles.
I have a Mikrotik router at home, and I chose it because their products are inexpensive and aimed at professionals, which means the software support is much better than consumer routers. Mine is quite old, but it still gets patches.
I wasn't aware that the Unifi stuff was vulnerable to the latest VPN stuff. I own a few ER-Xs and a Unifi AP. They're reasonable kit, but I wouldn't recommend them at all as a set it and forget it system.
- Ubiquiti has a track record of GPL violations (e.g. u-boot which dovetails nicely with a security vuln)
- The Unifi AP is tolerable for a simple home env but not much else.
- Ubiquiti support is non-existent. They basically slapped a slick GUI on Vyatta and resold it. It's nice, but they don't have much in the way of developers. So, for instance, they still haven't fixed the hardware acceleration bugs in the ER-X or the WPA2 enterprise issues in the Unifi AP.
- Ubiquiti hardware itself is hit and miss. The ER-L, for instance, is known to overheat and cook itself to death. There was a mixup with some of the PoE stuff (UBNT historically used non-standard PoE) meaning you're not entirely sure what's in the box.
UBNT hardware cheap and you can hack on it, so that's nice. But, being aimed at professionals and actually suitable for professionals are two separate issues.
I'm looking for something to update to. If not Unifi, then what brand would you recommend that would be suitable for home use by a professional, that can be updated and has good support?
Same with UBNT, though i really like the functionality Mikrotik offers. Their UI takes a bit of getting used to. My favorite thing was when you made a setting change and it’s validation was to say “Not invalid”. :)
My experience with UBNT in the field is pretty solid - no overheating and cooking issues that I’ve seen yet. I’ve RMA’d one device in about 50 deployed, over the course of a few years.
For most of their existence their much larger Arab neighbors (who had the backing of a superpower) had the explicit and oft-stated goal of destroying Israel. Those weren't idle threats: several wars were fought under that banner, one of which was almost successful.
While they currently have a somewhat more secure position, due to peace treaties. They remain unpopular, and a governmental change or revolution could easily put them under intense threat again.