Chris Miller

  • Александр Кулиничhas quoted2 years ago
    military-industrial complex, for example, made up 10–20 percent of the Soviet economy. When defense spending was cut to just several percent of GDP—the normal amount for European countries—this pushed GDP down sharply. Yet cutting wasteful production of unnecessary rockets and tanks made Russians no worse off.
  • Александр Кулиничhas quoted2 years ago
    Inspectors visited businesses less to examine their operations than to threaten and collect payments in exchange for leaving the targeted firm alone. Industrial inspections varied drastically by region, with an average of 6.5 inspections per month in Krasnoyarsk but only 1.1 per month in Tver. There was no evidence that Krasnoyarsk factories were safer than Tver’s. The difference between the two provinces had less to do with factories than with inspectors, who were apparently more venal in Krasnoyarsk.36
  • farzam mousavihas quotedlast year
    feared that Huawei’s products were now priced so attractively, partly owing to Chinese
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    The steady tempo of technological innovation that underwrote Moore’s Law required ever more complex materials, machinery, and processes that could only be supplied or funded via global markets
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    Chang spent his teenage years fleeing the Japanese armies that swept across China, moving to Guangzhou; the British colony of Hong Kong
  • farzam mousavihas quotedlast year
    Soon Mao Zedong’s forces were marching on Shanghai. Morris Chang was once again a refugee, forced to flee to Hong Kong for the second time
  • farzam mousavihas quotedlast year
    raping Grove’s mother, and installing a brutal puppet regime in the Nazis’ place
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    World War II was a conflict of industrial attrition
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    an industrial war was a struggle America would win
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    success in terms of copper and iron, rubber and oil, aluminum and tin as America converted manufacturing might into military power
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