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Comment Re:I support this (Score 1) 46

You won't rely on existing capacity, you make the capacity. Megaprojects create their own supply lines. You invest 100s of millions in a company like RCM to give them the extra capital to build a new factory for you. Unlike on site builders who need to move to the city temporarily and charge for that privilege, the factory can keep running after the citybuilding winds down.

https://www.rcmgroupe.com/en/a...

Comment editorDavid (Score -1, Offtopic) 80

One blurb after another generated by AI. Makes a body p*ssed-off to read nominal English text transmongrified by 20 year-old BJT-encrusted hardware that couldn't be sold on EBay. I'm breaking 80 in a couple weeks and would be happy to provide said-editor with a real ink-sucking fountain pen that tills  rather than thrills the  text. YMMV depending on your lack of education ... 

Comment Re:Aaaand, why don't the gov't punish them for it? (Score 2, Insightful) 52

Liberals : don't be nationalist/racist
Buesiness: Don't disrupt my supply chain
Economists : free trade uber alles

You have to become an arch enemy of the entire mainstream to enter a cold war with China. This doesn't require strength, this requires madness. The administration is mad, unfortunately they have made trade balance their hill to die on.

Comment Re:I support this (Score 1) 46

Five over one wood frame construction is inefficient. The future is as always prefab. It's just that when land costs 10x everything else, the future can wait.

Land should be relatively cheap here, so efficiency matters. The amount of construction is large enough to just put a prefab factory on site. They can do their own zoning too, so the number of stories is just a question of taste.

Comment Re:Welcome to Company Town! (Score 1, Interesting) 46

Most towns grew out of a couple big companies.

Somewhere along the line the economy of scale ran away with things and instead of new company towns and agrarian service hubs, we got ever growing cities. Then we put artificial growth boundaries around those cities, making it harder and harder for normal people to afford a nice detached home near their work (which is how almost everyone wants to live, as long as we still have to work).

Nothing wrong with a new company town compared to the dystopian status quo.

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