Fire and Fury

South Korea produces more than 50% of world's memory chips (DRAM and NAND). A nuclear strike on North Korea will cripple the industry and paralyze US high tech companies.

A textbook example of my favorite category

http://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Competitive_markets/Production_possibility_frontiers.html



D and D-op are linear orders.

Production possibility frontiers

An opportunity cost will usually arise whenever an economic agent chooses between alternative ways of allocating scarce resources. The opportunity cost of such a decision is the value of the next best alternative use of scarce resources. Opportunity cost can be illustrated by using production possibility frontiers (PPFs) which provide a simple, yet powerful tool to illustrate the effects of making an economic choice.

A PPF shows all the possible combinations of two goods, or two options available at one point in time.

Production possibilities

Mythica, which is a hypothetical economy, produces only two goods - textbooks and computers. When it uses all of its resources, it can produce five million computers and fifty five million textbooks. In fact, it can produce all the following combinations of computers and books.

COMPUTERS (m)	TEXTBOOKS (m)
0	70
1	69
2	68
3	65
4	60
5	55
6	48
7	39
8	24
9	0

TIL

Interactive webcamming is the fastest-growing sector of the global pornography business. In Romania, thousands of women work as "cam-girls" from studios and from home.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40829230

Typically, porn is a precursor of a major tech transition. Is webcamming just a replacement for phone sex or something bigger is going on?

Fired from Goolag

People actually buy this Goolag BS from a guy who had to be fired and escorted out of the door to leave the company. What a jerk.