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LATW 2022: Building Better Factories

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The Supply Chain That Makes Parts for Semiconductors

Half of the F16s in our air force right now are on the ground because no one knows how to make them anymore. The manufacturing ecosystem is run by a bunch of 62 year olds with no transition plan. There's nothing written down and it's a bunch of small, incredibly fragile businesses that are going to retire at the exact same time. So unless Hadron or something like Hadron exists, basically good luck building satellites, good luck building ICBMs, good luck keeping fighter jets in the air  and it's all going to collapse at basically the same time.

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