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Seems like there’s one or two multinational corporations at the bottom of the supply chain granting us the ability to manufacture semiconductors. Precision engineering that spits in the face of God. What’s the bus factor on the knowledge required to produce these? Companies forget how to make things they used to know how to make. It happens all the time. What happens when their institutional knowledge decays? We just can’t make the computers that run MRI machines anymore?

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

What happens when their institutional knowledge decays? We just can’t make the computers that run MRI machines anymore?

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