Re: [LUG] Raspberry Pi Ventilator

[Michael Everitt <michael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/04/20 20:18, comrade meowski wrote:
> On 14/04/2020 17:17, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> When we wanted to, we could build a oil fired steam powered cargo ship
>> from plate steel to launched and sailing over the atlantic in under a
>> day. (3 ships every 2 days)
>
> I'd like to unpack this a little bit to add context and specificity - not
> because I necessarily disagree in any way or suspect Gordon of jingoism
> ("spirit of the blitz" blah blah blah) but because clarity is important.
>
> "We" here is "the USA"*: furthermore it was a bunch of people, now mostly
> dead, in a very different USA at a very different and specific point in
> history when they had both the manufacturing capacity and the political
> will to do so. Just because the USA of then were able to achieve $FEAT1 -
> in no way comparable with the current situation - does in no way mean or
> even imply the the USA of today can achieve $FEAT2.
>
> It's debatable if the USA of today has either the manufacturing capacity
> or the political will and the UK likely has neither - but not really by
> me as I am woefully under-qualified to do so having nowhere near
> sufficient information to form any meaningful conclusion. As is I suspect
> pretty much everyone else.
>
>
> *The British designed the liberty ships, the Americans built them.
>
In modern ML-lingo ... +2 from me

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