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Nick E.'s avatar

Your thoughts [Liberty at the top] on the "JWST cost $10 billion dollars! Wow!" and how the dollar cost misses the point of the project.

-- 👏-👏-👏-👏 That is me slow clapping for your thoughts and sentiment. The dollars misses the point, or is the wrong metric to judge the project by. The dollars are just dollars, but what they accomplished 1.5M KM away over multiple decades is spectacular/amazing/breathtaking! ⚡😲🛰

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Liberty's avatar

Exactly! This sentiment can be applied to lots of other things too, from the iPhone to some ASML machine.

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PB's avatar

Seems a bit bonkers from Samsung to put all their eggs in one basket/state line that. Even one country is a little extreme. Staffing it is going to be interesting as well given Texas is not exactly everyone's cup of tea. Will be interesting to see how that plays out.

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Liberty's avatar

It's not done yet, but the thinking is probably that there's usually a kind of network effect with clusters of expertise, and some areas get known for X and all the talent goes there and there's pollination between companies and plants.

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Mikey's avatar

maybe im too cynical, but when i saw the headline the first thought was that this was just posturing ahead of the CHIPS act and Samsung trying to make sure they get some of their US-based expansion subsidized, nothing they've said is committal, but spreading out the peacock feathers in full ensures they pay attention to you and hope you follow through on your plans

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Liberty's avatar

Yeah, I had the same thought. But at the same time, the whole point of the CHIPS act is to attract more semi manuafcturing, so you can't blame Samsung if it works. I just hope it's well designed to reward actual investments and production and delivers the money based on rational milestones and isn't just sending over a big check for things that will never amount to much..

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Mikey's avatar

agreed, its all net positive nonetheless, i don't mind if we brute force with a broad stroke, some manipulative behavior will occur, but as long as we get some or all of the positive intended outcome its worth it

for all mankind episode probably hit a bit too hard last night

'every political system is flawed. and every bureaucracy is corrupt.'

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Liberty's avatar

I still haven't watched that show, but it's on my list!

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