What do you mean people were not allowed to have material things? Joining the party and becoming a part of nomenklatura so you can get western stuff and a Volga was a dream of Soviet citizens. Getting anything, often even food in USSR required a personal connection (blat).
You’ll need a construction cooperative. IDK if those can compete with large construction companies due to the economy of scale. The construction cooperatives were a staple of late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, but were essentially outlawed later to make way for large construction business and mortgages-backed construction.
How much time do we have till Apple blocks addresses of services that provide web apps instead of iOS apps or just crippling web apps altogether even more than they are now?
Oil export just prolonged the agony. Soviets could not reform without touching the institutions and could not survive without keeping the institutions intact.
Gorbachev was not geriatric, but he was not a right caliber for that job, Soviet system did not produce those.
11PM to 6AM is very different from 1AM to 5AM.
Parents of little children who need you to wake up multiple times per night have it worse, IMO. And they often report memory problems and overall mental decline.
Yes, that sawmill incident was with 16-year-old, but there are more at other industries. E.g. WI regulations were relaxed to allow 14-years-old work 40 hour weeks as well part of the year. If there is not enough pushback fatalities are a matter of time.
Why? Do you experience memory issues? If you can do that for years and not go insane or break down you must be built different. I know people like that and envy them, but this is not typical.
You need to fight for keeping any accomplishments you’ve got. US rolled back many child labor regulations, so we have 14 years old killed by sawmills again. It’s not like the US banned children from mines because it was economically more profitable.
You forget that it was normal before. PS2 had many separate chips you need to program and balance throughout and latencies to make the most of hardware. PS2 was able to achieve 60 fps in many impressive games. Console hardware was very specific, the original Xbox being just an Intel PC was an exception.
Has anyone actually changed positions on global warming since 2008? The same people who called it a communist hoax back then call it a communist hoax now.
Imagine if China starts with blowing up TSMC with long-range weapons. How will the West react if Taiwan no longer has that leverage?
Before Russia actually invaded Ukraine I was more optimistic about this.
Russia did not stop after 3 days, didn’t it? And there is no indication it will stop any time soon.
Russia is also old and broke, but it had enough to keep going. And Russia needs to spend a much higher percentage of the GDP on war than China.
I’m pretty sure China can take Taiwan if it wants to, I just hope the estimated price will be too high for them to actually pull the trigger.
I’m talking about someone like a big venture capital fund or a big bank. Or someone like Saudis. That’s a lucrative field.
Ironically, any company doing this will want to take the place of monopoly, not increase competition in the long run.
Boeing is not the only airplane manufacturer in US. If you look how it operates, it runs the government’s civil aviation, not the other way around. FAA has basically trusted Boeing to self-certify everything. It looks like without government interventions the only outcome is total monopolization.
It’s really funny that anti-governmental slogans of the ideological fights of the Cold War during which US Government was way more powerful than it was not got into the brains of so many people. As someone who grew up in USSR that’s really funny to observe.