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Tue Dec 09 04:45:11 UTC 2014 <undata> we can just have an economy of buying and selling apps with each other
Sun Dec 07 20:18:57 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> they're not actually closed out, because argentina is still very far away from a working market economy. these people'd be humiliated by the market, they're politically and socialy connected, can't have that.
Sun Dec 07 04:48:51 UTC 2014 <assbot> Logged on 24-10-2014 04:33:56; decimation: "There's been a mackerel economy in federal prisons since about 2004, former inmates and some prison consultants say. That's when federal prisons prohibited smoking and, by default, the cigarette pack, which was the earlier gold standard."
Sat Dec 06 22:28:32 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> in practical economic terms, the unfound amazon tribes are just keeping high import tariffs up.
Sat Dec 06 22:28:13 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> the problem with tariffs is that they economically insulate their jurisdiction, and sooner or later you get left out.
Fri Dec 05 21:14:31 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> sort-of like how the same problems that sink centrally planned economies make market economies thrive
Fri Dec 05 14:49:37 UTC 2014 <assbot> China Has Overtaken the U.S. as the World’s Largest Economy | Vanity Fair ... ( http://bit.ly/1ymtOVC )
Fri Dec 05 01:50:38 UTC 2014 <undata> it's the economic "jesus is coming back"
Fri Dec 05 01:29:21 UTC 2014 <undata> it seems like in state-run economies, when they print money what they're actually manufacturing is ownership
Fri Dec 05 01:25:49 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> but a state with economic involvement and the custody of the currency is like...
Thu Dec 04 00:56:25 UTC 2014 <BlueMeanie4> any advice from Romania on how to survive economic collapse and govt takeover?
Thu Dec 04 00:51:52 UTC 2014 <undata> right, they know full well that the economic system is a sham, and is going to implode
Thu Dec 04 00:50:05 UTC 2014 <undata> yeah, say there's a large economic collapse and the federal system starts to deteriorate
Thu Dec 04 00:45:07 UTC 2014 <undata> worldwide empire reduced to economic crater
Thu Dec 04 00:39:14 UTC 2014 <undata> BlueMeanie4: less and less of that with the economy as it is
Thu Dec 04 00:28:18 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> BlueMeanie4 the "whole country" is only "a mess" in the sense that random idiots are inept, and the model where you run a continent as a centrally planned economy requires a lot more than a conclave of idiots in charge.
Wed Dec 03 22:36:56 UTC 2014 <undata> asciilifeform: oh dear, yet more to suggest that nobody in this "economy" can think
Wed Dec 03 11:01:34 UTC 2014 <assbot> The Political Economy of Bitcoin by Josh Hendrickson, Thomas L. Hogan, William J. Luther :: SSRN ... ( http://bit.ly/1BcM2Pl )
Wed Dec 03 00:00:36 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> leaving for a moment aside my own piles of junk metal - folks embroiled in scientific computing are inevitably doomed to use modern hardware. they cannot, economically, freeze in time and live in 2008 (or whenever) for eternity.