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     I said to discount uggs for women Ricky, “If you’re doing industrial manufacturing ...”
     “We are.”
     “Then you must have solved the build-time problem.”
     “We have.”
     “How?”
     “Just wait.”
     Most scientists assumed this problem would be solved by building from larger subunits, molecular fragments consisting of billions of atoms. That would cut the assembly time down to a couple of years. Then, with partial self-assembly, you might get the time down to several hours, perhaps even one hour. But even with further uggs discount refinements, it remained a theoretical challenge to produce commercial quantities of product. Because the goal was not to manufacture a single molecule in an hour. The goal was to manufacture several pounds of molecules in an hour. No one had ever figured out how to do that.
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