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vsliralast Thursday at 8:26 PM3 repliesview on HN

It’s a good thing that Chinese companies have zero expertise in leveraging consumer demand for lower-end tech to develop know-how and catch up with the state of the art from Western-aligned companies and then economies of scale to surpass them in distribution.


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christophiluslast Thursday at 9:16 PM

Exactly. That's where this is heading, and the West-- as usual-- is pursuing quarterly profits and forgetting to look up.

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wslhlast Thursday at 11:24 PM

They learn really fast. I will not take the past as a prediction of the future.

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quititlast Thursday at 9:54 PM

Which then goes on to be repurposed into weapons of war.

Something to think about if considering the purchase of a DJI drone.

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