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by hga 10y ago
About to go to bed, but this item: The final collapse of the Soviet Union happened in large part through the oil glut of the late 1980s. Is at least claimed to be part of Reagan's economic warfare against the USSR. Note also that not
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by hga 10y ago
The imminent USSR invasion from the north played a significant part in the calculus of Japan's surrender. Well, it added to things falling apart at an accelerating rate in just about every way. I'm of the opinion that the USSR&
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by hga 10y ago
How many people were prematurely dying every month in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere after we took back the Philippines? The latest, best estimate I've seen, in the excellent book Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and th
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by hga 10y ago
The most interesting narrative is from Jerry Pournelle, who points out that part of bankrupting of the USSR was their outfitting the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) with 3 complete armies of mechanized equipment, from trucks to tanks (this kind
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by hga 10y ago
Well, it's just a start, the most (in)famous policy adopted by people who called themselves Keynesian, even got it written into law if I remember correctly, that failed so badly no one can deny the failure. And let's be careful w
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by hga 10y ago
Perhaps start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve And the oil shock was sort of a one time thing, and can't be viewed in isolation of Nixon having to close the gold window, more specifically how the
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by hga 10y ago
Or just a big enough capacitor to finish the necessary writes to flash memory. Which as I understand it is one of the things that distinguishes enterprise from consumer flash drives, and one of the reasons I use the slowest, smallest Intel
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by hga 10y ago
The successive editions of his books show a steady backing off of how wonderful their economy was as more and more facts about it couldn't be ignored. At the very least he believed their BS statistics; it's been so long since I lo
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by hga 10y ago
Ouch! 10x latency and 3x endurance might normally satisfy the "must be 10x better" criteria to break into an existing market, but with the maturity of flash, and how memory hierarchies can ameliorate useful sets of latency require
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by hga 10y ago
Samuelson got the Soviet Union so horribly wrong that I can't recommend it on that detail alone, for it either meant he was a True Believer, Useful Idiot, or the tenor of the times meant he had to publish words he knew were false, whic
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by hga 10y ago
While I didn't take it as far as faux playing the market, reading/skimming my father's copy of The Wall Street Journal from 3rd through 12 grades, roughly all of the '70s, a period with very ... interesting economics
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by hga 10y ago
The single most interesting thing for me was the information theoretic, at least in style, exposition on how trying to centralize all economic decision making at the top of society simply can not work. Also points out how essential economic
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by hga 10y ago
Wikipedia entry on it, which skimming seems to be fair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_in_One_Lesson and I note it was published in 1946, making it something of a classic. There a links to multiple versions o
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by hga 10y ago
Ah, yeah, companies like that I never buy from, something that far out means either they don't have it in stock and e.g. may have trouble getting it, and you're likely to get a better deal elsewhere from a vendor that deals with t
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by hga 10y ago
Interesting, for they did come up with a stunningly good shade of green for non-field uniforms, I wore them in JROTC in the late '70s. On the other hand, olive drab wasn't a non-field uniform color, was it? I've heard tha
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by hga 10y ago
Good essay on the "semi-random acts of kindness can be paid back a hundredfold", but one thing I've noticed is that there are few sales channels that are worse than the ones for cellphones. Only bad experience my family has
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by hga 10y ago
A couple of caveats on FBA: I've noticed in the last few years that they didn't pack FBA books hardly as well as they did their own, and I got quite a few that had suffered from sliding around in the box. I don't know if the
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by hga 10y ago
Yeah, that sounds like it, and it's at the right time.
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by hga 10y ago
While it doesn't look like it's true anymore ( http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/hotspotfaq-138619.htm... ), I sure seem to remember the Hotspot JVM having an option for 32 bit pointers for ... code,
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by hga 10y ago
And the 68000 a 24-bit CPU, and boy did that cause trouble when Apple et. al. moved to later versions where those top 8 address bits were significant, especially since the 68000 was introduced when DRAM was really dear, e.g. the barely usab
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by hga 10y ago
Oh joy; thanks for that vital bit of info, will come in handy if Zika advances into the US. I've already got DEET purchases lined up for this fall to get ahead of the likely rush.
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by hga 10y ago
Thinking about this further, the ACLU and the willing courts that followed its lead were all that was required to create the current even more inhumane system for our most mentally ill: It doesn't matter if the venue is a state mental
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by hga 10y ago
They all were following JFK's (and Eisenhower's) Best and Brightest, as enshrined in the Federal 1963 Community Mental Health Act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Mental_Health_Act ), all that done bac
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by hga 10y ago
My mother, as first a nursing resident, and then a nurse anesthetist in the '50s, saw the most important input into this process, the "major tranquilizers" AKA first generation anti-psychotics, which came into wide use in-bet
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by hga 10y ago
But in short, you're saying that MIT may no longer be "where the future happens." Or maybe MIT is now starting to seriously revert to the mean, some of the future will most certainly happen there, just potentially quite a
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by hga 10y ago
There's 2 things here: The incubator that was Building 20 was is gone , as far as I know. Many many good things came out of it, some of which got very big, starting with the Research Lab For Electronics right after WWII (it was previ
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by hga 10y ago
Ah, yeah, sorry about that qwertyuiop924, and thank you tinkerdol for filling him in sooner, and confirming what I've heard from other sources. It shows every sign of being a two for one own goal in diminishing MIT's future abilit
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by hga 10y ago
Last time I checked, which was a few years ago but quite some time after the creation of CSAIL, Switzerland was going strong. Last tidbit was their dismay to discover the very high ceiling of the space they were in was a couple or three in
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by hga 10y ago
Not the AI Lab, but Sussman and company's group that sort of stood between the AI Lab and the Lab for Computing Science (LCS), which did more classical types of CS. E.g. artifacts that came from the AI Lab included the Lisp Machine and
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by hga 10y ago
Those are the vulnerable phones; the article said 2.5 million are being recalled, but only 92 are known to have caused problems in the US so far. Pretty obviously not all of them are lit bombs with a short fuze.

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