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Fri Nov 07 01:42:25 UTC 2014 <Adlai> negrating doesn't hurt anybody who's not in the WoT, and a fair amount (all?) of copyrasta economic activity is done outside of the WoT...
Fri Nov 07 01:40:21 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> <Adlai> out of curiosity, in the brave new GPG economy, what's the use of claiming "This contract is protected as copyrighted material. It may not be reused by different parties without the express permission of MPEx." ? << Basically to hurt the copyrastas
Fri Nov 07 01:39:15 UTC 2014 <Adlai> out of curiosity, in the brave new GPG economy, what's the use of claiming "This contract is protected as copyrighted material. It may not be reused by different parties without the express permission of MPEx." ?
Thu Nov 06 14:59:19 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> so... yeah. destructuring society -> deskilling economy.
Thu Nov 06 01:47:41 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> And the kids are supposed to be able to make sense of this? At what point are children allowed to learn a set of symbols that unambiguously represent the speech sounds of English? << <this idea that if kids had it easier the world would be better is not unlike the idea that if the government spent more money the economy would work well.
Wed Nov 05 03:21:07 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> Denton writes rarely, but when he does criticizes Gawker authors for their economic liberalism.
Sun Nov 02 23:50:38 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "Yes, but that's a common problem with ANY "socialist" measure to help workers, whether it be minimum wage or full blown communism, or anything in between. Global capitalism is a race to the bottom. If we keep playing that game, I see nothing but a dystopian future of neofuedalism and a regression to gilded age economic policies."
Sun Nov 02 21:47:03 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: astrology is alive and well - under new brands (e.g., 'economics')
Sun Nov 02 21:22:53 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "evolutionary path from amateur to professional has been economically closed off by marketing." <<< there isn't going to be a professional photographer anymore than there's going to be a professional dresser.
Sat Nov 01 18:28:50 UTC 2014 <gernika> Regarding http://trilema.com/2014/a-complete-theory-of-economics/, would the use of a Nash Equilibrium that does not rely on third parties mitigate the problem of the long con?
Fri Oct 31 21:16:21 UTC 2014 <thestringpuller> Random and off topic. Pierre_Rochard was telling me about a country whose economy was riddle with Ponzi Schemes to the point real businesses were losing value because the ponzi's outnumbered the real businesses. I think it's Albania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania Maybe someone can help shed more light as he didn't know what the country was at the time.
Fri Oct 31 21:10:35 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> art comes from economy.
Fri Oct 31 21:10:32 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> there's very little economy in your fiction, not just this present comet thing, but the previous thing with the truck. such wasteful abuse of literary means.
Fri Oct 31 20:44:48 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> about as good science as krugman's economics or obama's peace.
Fri Oct 31 18:31:37 UTC 2014 <undata> mircea_popescu: also socialist measures of economic growth are never lies
Fri Oct 31 18:13:21 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> adlai it royally sucks as a "philosophy", or "economic theory", too.
Wed Oct 29 21:33:27 UTC 2014 <undata> mircea_popescu: one could imagine further that a system of contracts among those operating the most important parts of the economy might prevent them from dealing with the "marked"
Wed Oct 29 05:34:39 UTC 2014 <undata> altcoin, this reveals the real reason: avoiding the fucking government, not economics.
Tue Oct 28 19:28:54 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> individuation is a sexual, not an economical phenomenon.
Tue Oct 28 02:39:15 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform tbh i always wondered about the "shipping economically" part. surely 100lbs worth of various things have been shipped before, even in the us ?