Re:China using big data to detain people before crime is com...
by DrScump on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:26PM
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America didn't spend a single cent on rebuilding infrastructure lost to bombing
... within the continental U.S.America spent a lot in helping rebuild infrastructure elsewhere.
Re:China using big data to detain people before crime is com...
by kahnpro on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:34AM
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Incidentally this is also a major overlooked factor in the Cold War against the USSR.
America has had 150 years of peace and stability. The Soviet Union was ravaged by a traumatizing war at home and before that a major civil war and revolution.
Post-war, America didn't spend a single cent on rebuilding infrastructure lost to bombing, while the other major powers needed a decade of austerity just to get back to where they started. Britain was still repaying the Anglo-American war loan in 2006.
America did an excellent job of scaling up manufacturing capacity during WWII, but the factors that made it such a dominant force were largely accidents of geography.