Turn you back to them and and find out most business people have already found that the Chinese are only nice while they need you or want something from you

Both Microsoft and Apple have been paying dividends for over 10 years. Do you think that if you invested in those 2 companies 10 years ago and held, you'd be happy with the returns + dividends?

First of all, it is bloody impossible for a LUXURY tax to be regressive. It is only paid by those who are NOT in poverty. The gov't sends money each month to pay ALL the FairTax on purchases up to a person's or family's poverty level spending, so they are paying $0 FairTax, since the gov't pays it for them. If they are truly only making poverty level wages, then it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to be paying FairTax, because they won't be able to afford to spend above the poverty level, where the FairTax actually starts.

In the 45 of the 50 states that collect sales tax for their state, those sales tax agencies also collect the FairTax, and are permitted a "cut" of the FairTax in order to defray their expenses. In the 5 states that don't have a state sales tax, the Feds actually do administer it, but it is not the IRS that would do so. The IRS is abolished by the FairTax act, and the Feds collect the FairTax from the retailers and service providers that collect it from you. You, as a consumer, never deal with either your state's sales tax agency, nor the Federal Gov't's facility to collect the sales tax on sales in your state. You just never get to interact with gov't power so you don't get abused by it.

A puzzle-driven game-show, "The 1% club" reveals how quickly people are outside their comfort zone, how little detail they remember, how easily they're distracted (and multi-tasking isn't a 'thing') and how they can't filter data to detect a pattern. (There's also assuming pattern X when it's really pattern Y but that's a consequence of incomplete information, not of being 'normal'.)

You didn't just turn it over to them. In most cases manufacturing went when corporations found cheaper labour/rent/energy. Then China forced a tech transfer in order to access their markets.If you think your on a level playing field then you are very naive Many companies have lost their factories when the CCP makes a few accusations or suddenly change the rules so that you can't operate and leave the equipment to be taken over by a Chinese company. and if you upset the CCP by questioning something your country might find duties raised on products they import out of spite (Ask the Australian wine and coal industries) sometime it backfires on China as in the case of Coal.

You might consider TikTok being banned in the USA being bad, however name a western social media allowed to operate in China and if they do operate freely. Social media is a control on the "useful idiots" who then think how social media want them to think and the CCP knows this very well. They have waged a trade war quietly for years and currently the "useful idiots" are helping them win

The passive mini PCs that look like they are machines from a chunk of aluminum look good, just because it is a good way to dissipate heat without needing a fan, but still look good. They are not cheap, but you get what you pay for, and 45 Drives has a reputation for enterprise tier quality. It would be nice if they offered a five year extended warranty on the workstations, if they don't have it already.

One thing I wish they could carry would be a USB drive enclosure with 2, 4, 8, and more drives. These enclosures could just be "dumb" JBOD, mapping SATA and NVMe drives, or they could have their own RAID built in, so the enclosure can appear to the system as one large drive. This would be nice for laptops and mini PCs where people need drive space, but don't really need a NAS.

apart of me understands this but at the same time. american drone manufacturers suck. dji makes some of the best media equipment. from a consumer or buisness point of view it makes a lot of sense to just buy DJI. like our lawmakers have no concept of how things work. you should at least try to get a usa manufacturer thats good to compete before banning stuff.

I remember job interviews like this from a few years back. What I did was spawn an AWS LightSail instance with a static IP and go from there. When the interview is finished, I'd just nuke the VM and call it done.

Maybe it is part of being a good developer to run stuff that is potentially compromising, on a sandbon/VM, on a separate network.