Space, Defense, cinema and software?
Tbf, the rest of the world also views Europe in the same boat (if not having taken an early-bird ticket on it).
There are entire categories of things where it is just the US doing the thing, OR without the US the thing would implode.
For example, there are only two popular mobile phone operating systems: Android and iOS. Both are made by US companies (Google and Apple).
Let me put it this way: If every undersea fibre link out of the Americas was suddenly severed, people in the USA might not even notice for a while. The rest of the planet would make a winding down noise as every second piece of hardware or software stopped dead because of some missing dependency.
Not for long.
https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_unveils_its_own_pc_os__harmo...
From my neck of the woods, we've largely viewed the Americans as part of a security arrangement (Pacific) but, as a trading partner, they are far behind the Chinese (so much so that its a constant political discussion on how to balance the two competing alliances).
This is largely what Trump was trying, and failing (miserably) to address with his tariffs, nobody buys from the US anymore.
If the fibre was cut through the USA, then yes there would be a period of difficulty, but it would be very quickly replaced with other countries technology (keeping in mind that most Western governments were looking to move to Chinese Huawei telecommunications kit until the US made aspersions as to how secure peoples data/secrets would be if that happened, completely ignoring Snowden's revelations that the US had been engaged in using the hardware in overseas telecommunications systems for that exact purpose)
Just clone the repos from GitHub, wait... oh no.
We'll just deploy it to AWS... wait... IAM is in US East 1 only. Dammit.
Okay, fine, we can live without all of those JS CDN URLs, right?
Where's NPM managed from again?
Crates.io?
NuGet?
Uh-oh.
Go you :\
BTW Europe is already the center of the Internet at layer 3. Servers are cheaper in Europe. Bandwidth is cheaper in Europe. So I assume all those services, especially the free ones, are only hosted in the US because of latency or national pride.
Why don't you have a look at Asia (and it doesn't even have to be China, it can be Japan too)? Most major Asian companies have clones of the software stack that you mentioned and do not rely on it as much as you think.
These days there are (luckily) alternatives to American products, and this American-first ideology will only accelerate the speed at which the rest of the world will switch to alternative ones.
Part of the appeal of the 737 series of airplanes was pilot certification across a wide fleet allowed for carrier flexibility and cost savings. Same airframe, same 'response', 'same certification'. So they tried to lie to everyone. Mount the engines on the same airframe a bit differently. Use software to make the behavior (in most circumstances) the same as the older models. etc.
The rational was that they 'couldn't' spend the time, money, or above pilot training needs to field a new competitive model. They'd just come off of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner . Which skimming the Wikipedia article, probably also dovetails in with the seemingly eternal struggle between the Machinists union and Boeing the company who used to be headquartered in Seattle. Penny pinching decisions there probably had negative effects on safety too.
But pray tell me, did you save money in having part of your fleet grounded for 1.5yrs?
Obviously the problem here is the fact that aeroplanes are regulated.
The job of a CEO is sometimes to tell the customers no. It's just really hard to do.
Execs: sounds perfect
An airline placing an order for an A320 or 737 now will have a decade to wait for delivery.
Instead EMBRAER keep themselves locked in the regional jet market and are lucky to get 80 orders a year.
And for "national jet" the task is easy as you can allow some inefficiencies. For a pure commercial jet product like EMBRAER would supposedly build, it must be a topline on all KPIs otherwise some ROI numbers over 10-20 years would project it to be several percent worse than Boeing/Airbus, and the airlines wouldn't buy it.
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somat•2h ago
A corporation is the ruling apparatus for a group of people, which is a fancy way of saying government.
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gonzo41•2h ago
But you know, just a person on the internet yelling into the void...
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ars•3h ago
It's not usually nefarious, it's usually a result of imperfect information - each individual works off of the information they have which leads them to wrong actions as a whole, but correct actions individually.
xiphias2•14m ago
In that case it would be true, but it would be hard for me to think that nobody told the leader of Boeing (who should have known it himself as the leader of the biggest airplane company) that putting an engine over the wing is both stupid and dangerous and unstable.
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