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Thu Jan 08 17:32:25 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> but, fair warning to the ones still left inside the beast : nano, prior to his vacation, was a law abiding economy teacher, a bright kid and a very loyal and honorable fellow all around.
Thu Jan 08 04:54:35 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> Or if they'd think economically. Bo Jackson could have had another decade of professional playing time... If he didn't let the NFL cripple his body.
Thu Jan 08 04:50:54 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> One economic problem I will never get is dual sports players in college declaring for the NFL draft and skipping the MLB draft (looking at you rapin Jaimis)
Thu Jan 08 03:11:13 UTC 2015 <WolfGoethe> i really think bitcoin could spike to a million bucks if Putin worked with China to answer the us economic attack. putin could just say he refuses to pay back their loans because of the sanctions and he could ask china to call in their us debt... the fed could just print cash to buy it up... but if china sold that debt to foreign governments... the fed could NOT print foreign currency.. so... overnight the dollar would collapse... not a shot
Thu Jan 08 03:07:06 UTC 2015 <WolfGoethe> clearly they are attacking gold and silver desperate to keep the dollar high, they attacked the russian economy by working with opec to lower oil prices
Thu Jan 08 02:22:19 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> this discussion is reminding mircea_popescu to go check on the "oh, we are economists, looking before we leap, there's a small minority disagreeing" crowd
Wed Jan 07 22:37:19 UTC 2015 <undata> asciilifeform: seems like an economic meltdown would also decrease the demand for those for new iPhones
Mon Jan 05 02:15:21 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Welcome to the new ransomware economy, where hackers have a reputation to consider." "welcome to the post-modern world, where 'criminals' are more reliable than governments, and certainly more useful."
Sun Jan 04 17:49:30 UTC 2015 <adlai> my thinking is along the lines of a society/economy not having all its eggs in one basket. it doesn't have to have one egg per basket, with daily redistributions; a "fit economy still has strong inequality, but it's not skewed all the way to either side of the spectrum
Sun Jan 04 10:21:24 UTC 2015 <punkman> cazalla: if your hypothetical killer has economical motives, I don't think it'd ever make sense not to try to steal/ransom.
Sun Jan 04 05:27:11 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "? When the British got tossed out of their American Colonies, they did all they could, using a combination of import preferences and British ?soft power,? to bolster the plantation economy of the American South, helping set it up as a sort of anti-United States, and the eventual result was the American Civil War."
Sat Jan 03 17:50:32 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> decimation: complexity is intentional, to lock everybody in <<< while this may be true, it is also in economical terms an anti-moat. not only does it not make it hard for competitors to compete, it actually makes it easy.
Sat Jan 03 15:48:28 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> in this sense, some guys stranded on a deserted island COULD build a coconut trading empire where they just keep selling and buying the same three dried old coconuts to the point where their imaginary "economy" far outstrips the whole combined world trade.
Sat Jan 03 07:45:10 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "10 reasons Preet Bharara should be the next attorney general" "Investment banks were most responsible for the devastating economic downturn, yet the costs of their opportunistic behavior were placed on the shoulders of everyday Americans, who lost jobs, retirement savings, and confidence in the market."
Sat Jan 03 03:58:07 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu: programmers who depend on some sort of regionalized unemployment rate can't possibly be all that skilled. << this is true, however if an economy thinks itself of being in dire need of programmers anyone with a brain can fly blind into the country and remain relatively assured of their future prosperity without having to put too much thought into it. This is going to go away at some point in the futur
Wed Dec 31 00:31:51 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> i also explained that they have no economic incentive at all to do this.
Mon Dec 29 00:29:35 UTC 2014 <assbot> The Economics of Social Status | Melting Asphalt ... ( http://bit.ly/1xsKCQe )
Mon Dec 29 00:29:34 UTC 2014 <Apocalyptic> from the same blog: http://www.meltingasphalt.com/the-economics-of-social-status/ looks interesting
Mon Dec 29 00:25:26 UTC 2014 <adlai> oh, dinner with the dad also yielded some lulzy news from the other side of finance: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11269739/UK-government-to-pay-back-all-World-War-One-debt.html
Mon Dec 29 00:01:30 UTC 2014 <adlai> "money is bad, we need a resource-based economy" actually, that would be terrible. resources need metadata, enter money.