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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q and for companies that are in defense at all, uh, are, are there the actual machines themselves that then sit on the factory floor? I imagine a lot of the best ones are built and designed and manufactured, you know, everything like in China. So how do you, how do you think about sort of the supply chain for the autonomous factories that you guys are building and sort of.

A You know, it's a, it's a very hard question that the country's got to answer. So the machinery market, so we invented in Air Force invented CNC machine. Um, and we no longer make CNC machines in the US. And I think you saw this article about, you know, Haas white labeling some China ones and selling to the Russians. Um, but the main, the main manufacturing markets where we buy from is China's number one. We don't buy for them because they got spyware all over this stuff. And then it's, you know, Germany, South Korea, Japan are the best machine makers. And it's kind of like the car market, you know, you can buy an Italian one and it behaves like an Alfa Romeo and it's really fast, but it's going to, it's, you're going to be in maintenance hell forever. And the German ones are really stable and the Korean ones are quite good. So. You know, if the balloon goes up with the conflict, uh, you know, can we even buy the amount of capital equipment to put in the factories because we don't produce that capital equipment in the U S anymore. So, you know, part of my job is. Grow super fast and buy all the capex from our, from our allied partners and make sure it's in the US. But, uh, yeah, we no longer make the underlying machines in the country anymore.

AI assessment note: “part of my job is. Grow super fast and buy all the capex from our allied partners”

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