andygrovetheman

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   by andygrovetheman 8y ago

   On a mostly-unrelated note: Apparently big difference between the US and Germany in the nuclear race was not science but instead engineering. Fermi and Oppenheimer were useful to the US effort but Heisenberg probably had the intellectual fi
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   by andygrovetheman 8y ago

   It’s good if you find the right family. But this is exactly what Tolkien was saying in Lord of the Rkngs with the ring metaphor (Tolkien’s work was a big allegory on European World Wars and politics). Tolkien said Gandalf couldn’t take the
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   by andygrovetheman 8y ago

   IP and knowledge was much less valuable in the 19th C industrial economy than it is today. Back then execution and raw materials and access to semiskilled labor was most important. The Chinese (NK, Iranian, Russian) corporate hacks we have
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   by andygrovetheman 8y ago

   The US has slid away from a free and fair market too. By moving to completely unregulated markets, they have given control to the biggest companies. In a totally unregulated market, inequality grows. That’s bad for a society. Most free m
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   by andygrovetheman 8y ago

   Many scientists and academics immigrated to the US because of its values: it was a free country and a multicultural country where immigrants are welcomed. The knowledge drain moved smart people to a free country to build a knowledge econom