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> once computing became [...] expensive At what point in time do you think computing became more expensive than it was before? If anything, the cost of computi
by adwn 4y ago
> once computing became [...] expensive
At what point in time do you think computing became more expensive than it was before? If anything, the cost of computing has been strictly monotonically decreasing since the very first programmable computer.
- darthoctopus 4y agoIndeed. My personal pet theory is that this combination (expensive + unprofitable) might have been why so many early pioneers of computing were female in the first place.
- adwn 4y ago> My personal pet theory is that this combination (expensive + unprofitable) might have been why so many early pioneers of computing were female in the first place. That doesn't make any sense. Just 10 minutes before you've claimed that computing became male-dominated because it was expensive: > That the field became male-dominated once computing became simultaneously expensive and highly profitable should be entirely unsurprising. and now you claim that it was female-dominated at first because it was expensive?
- darthoctopus 4y ago> simultaneously expensive and highly profitable