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seanmcdirmidtoday at 2:20 AM1 replyview on HN

Cheap AND high performance. There is a reason Russian passenger jets are often engined with western jet turbines even though Russia makes their own.


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vkazanovtoday at 5:36 AM

One more factor: Similar to how this works in semiconductors, some things are just too expensive to build without having an economy of scale.