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Very excited to see how this plays out in practice.
The scale Intel has in manufacturing mobile CPUs is still unmatched.
This appears to be driven by MobileEye.
Seems like a very logical thing to have engineers standardize on, and then hand off to the NHTSA, etc., for governance.
Could a firm step in in hopes of getting a big pay day going up against the huge titans of the Chemical industry? Probably. Just hasn't happened yet, I'd say.
Regulate. A dirty word on HN, surely. Regulate the production of and, possibly, the import of neoprene, etc. Force industries to innovate - I know that's not a dirty word here - in order to sell these goods to Americans. Maybe then America becomes the sole producer of environmentally-friendly wet-suits to the whole of the word.
I think this is the only solution since your proposed solution of just "put the plants somewhere else" is, as you've pointed out, untenable.
Hmm, not the open web I'm familiar with.
The web really has come a long, long ways.
But maybe reading The Martian has me thinking that.
The ease of getting up and running, the ease of tools, and the ease of deployment. On no React stack can you (and in the future this will be more simple) run
meteor create my-react-project
npm init && npm install react
And start coding JSX, ES2015/2016 immediately. There is a non-trivial amount of boilerplate and configuration you need to do to get this working my hand, and while it can provide a greater level of control, it undoubtedly adds to the overall weight of code you need to maintain.Then hypothetically after some time of development, do
meteor add-platform ios
meteor add-platform android
meteor add-platform desktop (this is theoretical currently, but there exist packages which do exactly this)
And have Cordova iOS and Android builds, and an Electron desktop app. Then in a few weeks, do meteor deploy
and have a fully monitored application up and running on AWS with Meteor's monitoring and deployment tools. Meteor's play is in the ease of these tools. It is absolutely non-trivial the amount of glue and knowledge you need to create, understand, and maintain the current (and ever-rapidly expanding) Javascript toolchain.This announcement touches on one of their most thorny issues of being tightly coupled to Mongo. Adding this abstraction layer allowing any UI and any data source is Meteor's ticket to the masses.