Questions tagged [manufacturing]
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Does the US no longer make antibiotics?
On June 25th, 2020 Tucker Carlson claimed during his show:
The most powerful nation on earth no longer makes antibiotics.
He's obviously referring to the USA. Is the USA no longer manufacturing antibiotics? And is that absolutely true or just the…
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Are retail clothing prices going down significantly enough to impact the used clothing market?
This article at Bloomberg claims that "...new clothes are becoming as cheap as used ones, and poor countries are turning their backs on the secondhand trade". It also says that "...The tide of secondhand clothes keeps growing even as the markets to…
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Were the vast majority of lost manufacturing jobs since 2000 lost due to automation?
There has been a lot of discussion here in the US about manufacturing and about bringing back jobs from overseas.
While interviewing US presidential candidate Andrew Yang on the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris quotes a study from Yang's book:
80% of…
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Do different locks ever have the same key?
There is a specific pattern for each lock and key made in the world. A specific key can only open a specific lock which has the same pattern in which the key can fit.
This thread here suggests that there are millions of locks with the same…
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How fair is "N% lower environment load" claim for lower grammage paper?
This is basically a rephrase of this question from Sustainability SE. Paper manufacturer UPM claims they have paper that has the same key characteristics (as white, as thick and as usable in office equipment) as "usual" office paper but lower…
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Did the US / UK supply the Russians with machinery before or during the Cold War?
I was reading this question on Quora, when I reached the last answer:
I visited the Tbilisi Aircraft factory at the end of the Cold War and was astonished to see that MIG fighter fuselages were being built with American Cincinnati machinery. I now…
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