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by Havoc 394 days ago
Big part of anti trust is because it crushes healthy competition so don’t think that is necessarily incompatible with winning tech races.

> China will eventually route around every road block, so the question is whether or not any of this will help America keep an edge

I’d say the lead is so slim it’s basically already gone. At least in the practical sense. If you were to isolate both right now. Cut them both off from the outside. One would be able to produce a modern cellphone the other would not.

Any sort of residual technical lead in the pure IP/knowledge sense is good for 3 years max I reckon.