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Maybe we're on to something there.
By 'we', do you mean the US? It's generally considered one of the worst aspects of the American tax system. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American#Taxation_o...
Regarding the US and Canada, there are NAFTA cross-border tax rules which are complex and annoying, but not especially onerous in terms of tax obligations.
Canada has a long and shameful history of our innovations being screwed up or screwed over. In the 50s our fighter/interceptor was leagues better than the US's jets, but crooked politicians killed the project. In the 70s our CANDU reactors were safer and cheaper to run than the PWRs the Americans were exporting, somehow we lost out on that too. More recently Bombardier built some of the nicest small passenger jets, a…
Excellent article on the Avro Arrow: The project was genuinely ground-breaking. Avro’s engineers had been allowed to build a record-breaker without compromise. But Canadians would soon discover that the supersonic age had made aviation projects so expensive that only a handful of countries could carry them out – and Canada, unfortunately, wasn’t one of them. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200615-the-record-brea…
It was made to counter a hypothetical supersonic bomber that the soviets never built. Sputnik made them obsolete!
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Most of the Canadians I worked with in the US have gone back to Canada. Our Principle Engineer at my last gig did like ~10 years around the DC area and then pissed off back to Calgary to raise kids and settle down. Still works remotely for the said US gig. Plus have you ever been through a winter where it dips to -40C? Fuck that noise. I'm from the south and live in Canada and never though I'd miss bitter VA winters.…
> Plus have you ever been through a winter where it dips to -40C? Yes. I live in Calgary.
There's no reason Canada shouldn't have more fabs. It has Teledyne DALSA, making mostly imagers and some MEMS parts. Canada has a bigger population than Taiwan, after all.
Yes there is one very important reason which is that Canada has zero semiconductor manufacturing expertise or legacy. Who is going to design, manage, and operate the plants? And who are the customers going to be?
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Yes there is one very important reason which is that Canada has zero semiconductor manufacturing expertise or legacy. Who is going to design, manage, and operate the plants? And who are the customers going to be?
Well, how did Taiwan start? At the time, they would have been competing directly with the US. The US had to possess every advantage: money, skilled labor, all your customers in the same country. Why did all the fabs uproot and move across an ocean?
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There is no conflict between democracies and accomplishing long term goals. Common perceptions are skewed because (1) "everything works as expected" and (2) "obviously clever long term plan bears fruit" make boring headlines. If the democracies ever bring out the brass knuckles and try hard they'll probably succeed. Even mild tweaks like loosening IP protections and letting failed financial institutions go bankrupt o…
Solar energy (with storage!) is cheap energy. We aren't quite at the storage tipping point, but there is good reason to believe we will get there. Solar as generation tipped years ago. Make plans like energy in 2030 will be cheaper than it is now, not more expensive.
There's no reason Canada shouldn't have more fabs. It has Teledyne DALSA, making mostly imagers and some MEMS parts. Canada has a bigger population than Taiwan, after all.
Yes there is one very important reason which is that Canada has zero semiconductor manufacturing expertise or legacy. Who is going to design, manage, and operate the plants? And who are the customers going to be?
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Yes there is one very important reason which is that Canada has zero semiconductor manufacturing expertise or legacy. Who is going to design, manage, and operate the plants? And who are the customers going to be?
Well, Canada does manufacture other types of chips, there’s a huge case of brain drain to the US, we just need the government to incentivize Canadians who work in tech to stay in Canada
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By 'we', do you mean the US? It's generally considered one of the worst aspects of the American tax system. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American#Taxation_o...
Yeah is a PITA if you're overseas. Regarding the US and Canada, there are NAFTA cross-border tax rules which are complex and annoying, but not especially onerous in terms of tax obligations.
Those people still have the hassle of having to declare American taxes, without generating any revenue for the fisc. That's a pure deadweight loss, if there ever was one.