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Why is it "spend" and not "spending"?
spend is a noun in this sentence. As a noun, spend refers to the amount of money spent for a particular purpose or over a specified length of time
This seems to be part of a broader trend, not just business. One group of pastor-students would talk about giving a “preach”. Drove me nuts.
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Fascinating. I suppose they can be smaller than quartz crystals?
If you find that fascinating already... did you know that all cellphones use mechanical filters in the GHz range ? They combine very good performance with very low energy consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_acoustic_wave https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akustische-Oberfl%C3%A4chenwel... (pictures)
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No company can plan based on the tariffs. There is zero guarantee that then next government won't revoked them or that the current one won't flip-flop. Local manufacturing doesn't swing on a 2-4 (or 6 or 8) year timescale. There needs to be consistency. The company that moves (or starts) manufacturing here today might get run out of business when/if tariffs are repealed and their competitor already has production lin…
> No company can plan based on the tariffs. There is zero guarantee that then next government won't revoked them or that the current one won't flip-flop. Local manufacturing doesn't swing on a 2-4 (or 6 or 8) year timescale. There needs to be consistency. Indeed, but the role of a government is to steer/push private initiative in a certain direction. Tariffs and stuff are steering private companies towards building s…
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We are losing a lot more manufacturing due to the new tariffs on industrial parts than we are gaining from tariffs on finished products
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/trumps-ta... Steel tariffs are calculated to cost ~$900k per job saved. It also makes all other industries in the US that use steel less competitive in the global market.
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Also, by definition, if dollars left the country then stuff came in. We literally traded bit flips in a database for tangible stuff.
Bit flips in a database = years of people’s labor and planning
It's important to remember that money is not value. It's a score that's meant to represent value, but the value itself is entirely distinct.
30B investment for "hundreds" of US jobs seems like a weird number to brag about
Think whatever you want about them, whether they're good or bad when it comes to environment, public health etc.
But one thing cannot be ignored - that they are not built to employ some large swath of people. They can be run with very lean teams, much leaner than the average person thinks for something so large. Any claim that they are employing some measurable amount of people is a sham they try to push onto the public.
What is with the phrase "increase spend"? It just seems gramatically .... off. Why not say "Apple partners with Broadcom to produce billions more US chips".