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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • I wish that was true. But as someone manufacturing medical devices in China for the American market, I can tell you that some components can only be obtained from the US. Usually it’s some very specific sensors that are patented by US companies, so even if knowhow to replicate them exists, I couldn’t use those parts in devices I’m selling back to the States.

    What that means is that I now have to buy several components at twice their normal going rate, which brings the total price of the machine up by around 20%, and then I sell the finished product back to the US with another 84% on top, making the product more than twice as expensive for the hospitals buying them. And knowing hospital practices in the US, they’ll tack on their standard margin, so patients pay at least triple for the treatment.










  • I mean, do the maths. A high res picture is 8-15 MB in size, and a 4k video has 60 fps (frames per second). Let’s take 12 MB as average picture size, that gives you 12MB x 60 frames x 60 seconds = 43.2 GB/min. With some advanced compression algorithms you can maybe get the individual frame size down to half, but that’s really it.