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Wed Jan 21 09:40:48 UTC 2015 <punkman> "1700 private jets expected to Davos in Switzerland to discuss climate change at World Economic Forum"
Wed Jan 21 05:27:31 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> it doesn't seem to have much notion of economics in any sense.
Wed Jan 21 04:23:29 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> reddit : "You're only looking at the technical side of it. Leaving the 1 MB block size issue for later is risky due to political/social reasons. Every hard fork brings with it uncertainty and risks because it requires wide consensus to be carried out smoothly. As long as these risks hang over the Bitcoin economy, many companies will be hesitant to make long-term commitments to the Bitcoin economy. Afterall, a hard fork
Wed Jan 21 04:23:29 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> could lead to Bitcoin community splitting into two networks, or a hard fork could end up not happening due to community infighting. Both of these would be disastrous for the Bitcoin economy.
Wed Jan 21 04:23:00 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "tldr: economically speaking, core dev team should not worry about increasing the block size limit until at the very least we see average transaction fees consistently above the 0.0001 btc 'minimum'. At that point we can revisit this debate. There are other questions about feasibility and politics that I'll leave out."
Tue Jan 20 21:19:57 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "to take a closer look at the problem. In 2009, two economists?Matthew Turner of the University of Toronto and Gilles Duranton of the University of Pennsylvania?decided to compare the amount of new roads and highways built in different U.S. cities between 1980 and 2000, and the total number of miles driven in those cities over the same period.
Tue Jan 20 19:19:53 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Arthur Hayes obtained his BA in Economics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. "
Tue Jan 20 16:09:47 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "And without a functioning industrial economy crude oil would be reclassified as toxic waste. But that is still two or three decades off in the future."
Tue Jan 20 01:53:56 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> back in the 90s the diesels were pretty economical cause diesel was 30% off
Tue Jan 20 01:53:33 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> yeah those had shitty fuel economy.
Tue Jan 20 01:48:20 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> tank isn't that big if memory serves, more like 52, and fuel economy is not that bad, more like 7ish
Mon Jan 19 16:42:15 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> check out dooglus (who isn't a gavin-approved economist, in spite of being exactly as certified&educated in the topic as the random idiots a la Oleg Andreev et all) explaining economics :
Mon Jan 19 16:11:10 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> In late 2013 Jorge took an active interest in the economics of cryptocurrencies. He became extremely skeptical about its underlying soundness and chances of success, and has been advising the Brazilian public against investment in bitcoin.
Mon Jan 19 04:55:04 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> mno. economics is a science of closed systems.
Mon Jan 19 04:54:40 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> very economical in the broad sense (sealed mine)
Sun Jan 18 19:04:20 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> Zarathul: I'm developing a lightweight MMORPG with crypto economy. and I'm looking for some feedback and alpha testers << ever heard of s.mg ? also, iirc DreadKnight is doing something similar.
Sun Jan 18 15:33:42 UTC 2015 <Zarathul> http://takeover.to/ currently Open Alpha, there's no sign of crypto economy yet, testing pure gameplay
Sun Jan 18 15:23:38 UTC 2015 <Zarathul> I'm developing a lightweight MMORPG with crypto economy. and I'm looking for some feedback and alpha testers
Sun Jan 18 07:52:16 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> like us with no interest or understanding in the workings of power, economics, or politics
Fri Jan 16 17:49:07 UTC 2015 <assbot> Go ahead Jim Prentice: raise taxes in Alberta and see if by 2025 the province isn’t an economic shithole like Quebec and Ontario. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1C81kEe )