Intel update

[burgunder]

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[vaxhacker]

Yeah, I'm sure crossing my fingers that it works out for Intel :)

[thepresident]

Me too. I sure wouldn't want their employees to lose their free coffee. Or bananas. Err...

[vaxhacker]

Or the use of conference rooms to play D&D in on Saturdays?

[thepresident]

I PLEAD THE FIFTH!! Especially about obtaining visitor badges for other people to do so!

[tenshiemi]

This might interest you: http://pcic.merage.uci.edu/papers/2008/InnovationAndJobCreation.pdf

(I have not read through the study, just an article about it but I can't remember where I read about it)

At the least I'd say it's arguable that we are better off as a whole letting manufacturing jobs go overseas. With the caveat that I think it's crucial that we require US companies to maintain fair working conditions in other countries, cheaper labor -> more iPods sold -> more jobs created and it also takes less money to improve the living standards of the poor in other countries. If all manufacturing was done in the US it's quite possible that there wouldn't be that many more US jobs and Apple would certainly be employing fewer people worldwide.