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From: TimF	6/11/2008 10:28:30 PM
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Before ’73 Coup, Chile Tried to Find the Right Software for Socialism By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO nytimes.com Allende’s pencil making machine ...So the “best and brightest” were going to control every detail of a national economy using (a) chairs from the prop department of 2001 (b) a 1971 computer with the processing power of steak knife, a can of soup, and three sickly gerbils (c) a complete trust in whatever random numbers people in the factories pecked into teletype machines (d) an endless supply of socialist arrogance I wonder if this system could make even a single pencil ? tjic.com

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