garwalut@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.ml•China restrictis export of Gallium and Germanium needed for chips; what are they and which countries are producers?
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1 year agoHere’s the thing about resource based export bans: prices will go up and as a result new producers/mines will enter the market. In time, new alternatives will be found, cost of production will go down, and china will loose its comparative advantage permanently.
I was showing an intern how to install a software the intern needed. The computer setup was a laptop with two external monitors. After we installed the software from one of the external monitors, the intern asked “so will this install the software in the other screen?” I was flabbergasted.