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blitzartoday at 2:47 PM1 replyview on HN

Also suitable for keeping an economy functioning and weaponry in war.

You might not be able to fabricate billion terraflop GPUs but at least the basics of survival will be able to be locally produced without scavenging washing machines for parts.


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joe_mambatoday at 5:11 PM

>Also suitable for keeping an economy functioning

The (western) economy runs on sub 7nm phone, laptop and datacenter chips on which the white collar workforce produces value. Those are the ones that are also the most profitable since they have the highest margins. Europe doesn't have that.

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