As somebody with far lesser valued letters, I agree and commend you for recognizing this.

Now that I've trodden most of the way down the path and understand (somewhat anyway) how the system works, I'll be able to give to my children the knowledge, and hopefully the financial support that your parents gave you so they can have those letters.

I hope they reflect on it later in life the same way that you are here.

The math on this doesn't math.

You're old enough for a routine colonoscopy, yet pay $200/month for a platinum plan?

I'm not old enough for a routine colonoscopy and pay more than $200/month for a bronze.

The only way that happens is if you're getting a significant subsidy. Which, based on your later statement about your income taxes, doesn't add up. You can't simultaneously be in a high enough bracket to pay that much in income tax and a low enough one to get health insurance subsidies.

Moving on from that, your statement about it being cheaper than what you would pay in taxes is completely unfounded and incorrect. We spend more than 2x per capita on healthcare than any of the "national health system" countries.

Cancer patients are at the top of the list in every healthcare system. US, Canada, UK, France, Norway, Denmark.. you name it. Your time to treatment wouldn't have been any different in any of them.

Without clear information about income, it's hard to know where you'd land, but I reasonably suspect that cutting the cost in half (which every other nation is able to do), even if you're in the top bracket, it would end up equal or lesser.

Plus, you wouldn't have any deductibles.

You'd be money ahead if we got rid of the rent seeking/leach insurance companies.

I suppose it doesn't matter as much for average office users, but for power users/tech folks, the huge lack of device drivers re-compiled for ARM windows is a big problem.

It's an even bigger problem if you want to use any hardware that isn't the latest and greatest. How many companies are going to recompile and release drivers for ARM for hardware that isn't current generation?

If the "anonymous" source of this story has some C background and wants a job, email me. my username at the notable G companies email service.

This... the embedded systems world has all sorts of niche spaces.

If you understand C and some basic assembly and can reliably manage your memory without hand holding, you're a shoe-in at any product company.

Speaking as the owner of a US based manufacturing concern, this is purely because of market targeting.

With Chinese wages where they are now (about $4-5/hr for factory workers), the lower productivity of Chinese workers (about 70% of US productivity/worker is as good as can be managed over there), and the tariffs, We can make the cheap wrench just as easily and cheaply in the US.

You're not going to get the $28 wrench for $1.5. You're going to still get the $1.5 wrench, but it will be a $1.5 US made wrench.

I'm in the process of on-shoring my last Chinese made product. Quality won't change, it will be the same product as the same price, but it will have a "Made in USA" sticker attached now.

Took 2 seconds to find a single article from a pretty slanted source. "All the leftist screams" would have to look more like 20+ articles on CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo, etc.. over a period of time. If you want a reference for "all the XX screams," google Hunter Biden. That's about the threshold for being able to call something "all the XX screams."

The real proof is in the pudding. If Democrats were really pro free-trade and anti-tariff, Biden would have rescinded the tariffs when he first got in office. He didn't.

Why not? Because Democrats have always been at least a bit protectionist. They never had the marketing/political capital/political will necessary to actually get tariffs done, but it's always been a conversation on the left. Now that the tariffs are here? They're never going away.

Populist Trump got something done that the Democrats wanted.

I own a US based electronics company. We have two product lines. One that has been built in the US since the start (2020) and another that's made in China.

We have plenty of workers. They cost a bit more than workers in China, but the difference isn't that much once you compare productivity (higher in the US).

The biggest difference is financing. Forget equity, US investors are so focused on the latest shiny SaaS/AI/(until recently) crypto thing that it's very hard to raise money for a factory. Banks are a little better, since they understand what a factory is and like capital assets. But, the interest rates are currently pretty punishing and they want you to have cash-flow to cover the loan before you have the factory and also want sizable down payments.

I've bootstrapped this business over the last 6 years and am finally at the point where I'll be able to On-shore the China made product. Including the tariffs, my current model actually has the US production ending up slightly cheaper than making it in China.

Want US manufacturing to come back? Give us subsidized financing to build factories. The chip makers are getting it, which I applaud, but none of the other pieces of the electronics supply chain are.

I'm not usually a defender of "big finance," but the interesting thing to me in this case is that the system already has a solution. The Fed Repo (SRF in this case) facility was created to handle precisely this kind of situation.

The fact that SVB went to the equity market for money when they had a huge pile of US Gov. bonds is hilarious; they've sucked at the teet of VC/Silicon Valley for so long that they never actually took the time to learn how banks work. If they'd set up with the Repo facility (which every other bank their size has), they'd have been able to borrow against those bonds at basically free rates.

Alas, they obviously weren't set up at "The Desk" and didn't have that option.

I hate that there will be collateral damage probably to companies that didn't deserve it, but they earned this one.

It used to, but that's not the case anymore. Are there some limits on the multi-platform functionality? Yes. Are they relevant to 95% of development being done now? Nope. That's exactly why they didn't take the time to build a .net core implementation of the legacy GUI platforms. Hardly anybody is building desktop applications that way anymore, the handful still being developed are being done in JS and an embedded browser.

Aside from the GUI toolkits, .net core treats Mac, Windows and Linux all as first class citizens. I've had production .net core applications running on Linux for years now. Works great, runs fast.

Time to wake up.

Anything written since 2010 should be runnable on Linux. The things .net core doesn't have are: Winforms, WPF and Webforms. Winforms and WPF are for building Windows desktop apps. Webforms is an abomination that I don't think any new development has happened on since the 200x era.

Speaking about your customer, their webapp (if it was written in the last 13+ years), should just run on Linux. As long as it doesn't depend upon gobs of SQL-Server dialect specific stored procedures, the DB should be just fine running on Postgres.

They still kind of aren't. Returning company cash to shareholders now mostly takes place in the form of stock buybacks.

Because a fab is an enormous capital investment and for the last several decades, the Wall St. mantra has been "service revenue above all! We don't like capital intensive business. Oh, and we want every dollar we can get today, we don't care about next quarter, let alone next year."

At the start of a chip shortage, Intel announced they were building a bunch of contract fabs and getting into that business in a big way. Their stock got creamed because they spent their cash on facilities instead of paying it out to shareholders.

But, they're staying the course. A couple years from now, this won't be a problem anymore.

No, what we're saying is to keep your "morals" to yourself. You're welcome to hold whatever view you like on pornography. You're not welcome to force that view on me.