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Do you think that semiconductors are the only thing required to fix GOSPLAN, make adjustments to prices of everything and save Soviet economy?
by ttflee 8y ago
Do you think that semiconductors are the only thing required to fix GOSPLAN, make adjustments to prices of everything and save Soviet economy?
- kirillseva 8y agoImagine soviet government running Hadoop MapReduce jobs and using "big data" to drive GOSPLAN? Would be a marvel to watch this soul-crushing efficiency machine.
- ttflee 8y agoWould be a good soviet-punk fiction concept, like what-if Internet were invented in and dominated by Soviet.
- peoplewindow 8y agoGOSPLAN didn't fail because of lack of MapReduce. I don't think you could make a planned economy even with all the big data tools that exist today. There's far too much important information affecting prices that isn't represented in any database.