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What do you mean by "never really tried it"? This was a state that set production quotas, dictated prices, and set priorities in 5 year intervals. What more could they have done? The fact that even a regime that was willing to starve and enslave its own people could not make a planned economy work, just shows the futility of the approach.
Assuming the source of the attribution is acting with pure intentions, it is usually a preponderance of (mostly circumstantial) evidence. Does the malware and MO look similar to past known attacks? Did they leave any localized strings in the binary file, if yes does that nation have an interest in hacking the target? Does the malware use a stack of 0-days and labour-intensive obfuscation techniques (indicating a large amount of resources)? Does the whole picture make sense when you put it all together?
The above is in an ideal world, in reality almost all attributions are political and based on almost nothing. Even if they were based on some other intelligence source, how could a random member of the public verify that?
On top of the difficulty of gathering evidence, there is an incentive alignment between the heads of hacked organizations and intelligence agencies. The hacked company will look better as the victim of a "cyberattack" or a "chinese cyberattack" then as the victim of "random.ransomware.0238023". The intelligence agency can get more funding and PR by proclaiming the same.
It's a lot faster in all aspects, has mostly the same features and is pretty much a standalone binary.
edit: an even more minimal alteranative is nnn https://github.com/jarun/nnn
A market economy is one where resources (commodities, labour, services) are distributed primarily via the pricing mechanism, prices can be set freely by market participants and the market is generally open. It isn't merely an economy where markets exist.
Your examples were not market economies. They heavily restricted market access through guilds, hereditary jobs, serfdom, feudal law and trading licenses. They fixed prices through price edicts and decrees. On top of that, the majority of the population were subsistence farmers who also made most of their tools themselves. This means that the vast majority of resources were not traded in a market.
> That too is relatively new. Abraham Lincoln was a Marxist, for example.
Really? You're just going to state this as a fact without any backing at all?
The worker board will also have the same perverse incentives current boards do to a lesser degree. Why wouldn't they make terrible decisions in the name of short-term shareholder value? What is the crucial difference between a company who sells shares on the public market (where anyone could get a profit share) and a worker cooperative (where employees [re-]invest their wages to get a profit share)?
Have you given any thought what that would look like in practice? If you and me started WidgetCorp and needed $5 Million to buy a WidgetMaker, where would we get the money?
To add to your last point: Industry is an area with a huge deficit of properly engineered software and often lacking basics things like version control and testing.
Most manufacturing processes use code that an Automation Engineer with a bare minimum of CS training clicked together in Rockwell/Siemens software. There is no deployment pipeline or staging, data is often "copied" from ERP by typing it in and monitoring is some 20-year old custom solution done in Delphi or Visual Studio that just barely runs. The potential for software engineers there is gigantic.
edit: obviously there is a bit of hyperbole here and there are exceptions, but this has been my experience.
Power is extremely decentralized, not just down to the Cantons, but the counties and then the cities/townships (translated to rough US equivalents) also have a huge degree of autonomy. For any law or political decision that affects a Swiss citizen, it is almost guaranteed that it can be overturned be plebiscite (or in local issues by just showing up at meetings).
The late adoption of Women's suffrage is just a consequence of this system, which is biased towards inaction by design. On the plus side they have not had ideological extremists run their country, or had political violence on the level of some of their neighbors (Italy, Germany, France).
> and subsidize the same for poor countries who haven't historically emitted much and don't have the wealth to transition themselves.
Yes! With a fraction of the money sloshing around various "charities" and NGOs, mostly spent on salaries, you could build solar with storage for millions of people. Of course in practice it would be really complicated, you have to make sure the right people run the systems and there will be bad cases of corruption. But it really is the least we could do.
> The US and Australia and Canada continuing to pump more fossil fuels
The funny thing is that the market is turning even Australia and Texas into solar superpowers. Ever since solar became the cheapest form of generation both have seen an incredible boom in solar, with almost no policy incentives. This is a huge win for the planet, if people want to build solar because the incentives align they will just do it without costing larger society any (political) capital.
> It is actively physically harming them in a very real way. It's an indirect, diffuse form of physical assault.
I follow the logic and agree about the causality chain, but this is a road it's best not to go down. It quickly turns into personally blaming people for things they had no control over. That has never been a good way to persuade people. Imo it's also a lazy deflection, since humanity has never really paid any attention to its resource usage. The only difference is that Industrial societies gained the capability to affect the planet on such a large scale.
Where will the fertilizer come from? What happens to the parts supply chain and fuel sources of agricultural machines? How will we make concrete and steel in the quantities we need? How will we transport food across continents? In summary: How can we do that without a death toll of tens of millions?
I mean we are slowly working on it, solar+storage is now just the most cost-efficient source of electricity. But anyone that thinks it is simple or obvious either doesn't inhabit the real world, or is a murderous psychopath.
Regarding cars specifically, which group do you think is bigger: car buyers that would get a $20,000 gift from the Chinese taxpayer (and likely spend those savings in the domestic economy) or people employed in car manufacturing?
As for PSUs, an "80 platinum" rated one will have 90% efficiency at 10% power draw.
In my experience, if you go anywhere near max length on Cat6(a) and need SFP+ modules, those modules will get insanely hot and probably start dropping packets.
Of course you can send 10GbE over copper, but the needed amplification is a major heat source. So if you're running cables anyway you might as well run fiber and be prepared for 100GbE.
It's the most comprehensive vi-mode addon for a mainstream browser. Support bookmarks, search engines, pagination, external text editing and colorschemes on top of the usual features something like vimium has. It is under active development [1] and written in TypeScript (which is also a plus for hackability in my book).
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim... [1] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl