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The comparison centers on power efficiency, not a single benchmark score. CPU, GPU, display, operating system, and application behavior all change the result a buyer experiences.
HN readers used the article to challenge simple architecture narratives and to ask which workloads still make the trade-off worthwhile.
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Sanglard tried two CalDigit docks three years apart, on both a MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad, plus a Thunderbolt 4 certification that explicitly mandates reliable wake-from-sleep. None of it worked. What finally fixed it was replacing the monitor, not the dock, and he still can't explain the mechanism.
In the thread, dozens of readers reported the identical bug across Anker, HP, Dell, OWC and Lenovo hardware — and one found a $20 used Lenovo dock, after a firmware update, more reliable than a $400 CalDigit.
The move that recurs isn't a stock purchase — it's the off-take deal, where Washington becomes co-owner, co-funder and guaranteed customer at once. The MP Materials template: a stake plus a 10-year rare-earth price floor plus a promise to buy the output.
HN reached for every ideology at once — socialism, fascist corporatism, state capitalism. The most grounded voice wasn't reaching: a former Obama/Biden-adjacent policy hand, now a VC, called it bipartisan industrial policy with a long lineage, not an aberration.
