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Wed Feb 10 16:19:01 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> they are degenerating literally to the level of inca palace economy
Sun Feb 07 22:06:56 UTC 2016 <gribble> napedia was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 51 weeks, 6 days, 16 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds ago: <napedia> I don't write for SNI. My opinion is that I'd like to see SNI sort it out with economic reasoning and good articles. Pierre's arguments are most persusasive.
Sat Feb 06 13:43:34 UTC 2016 <pete_d_out> “Workers are still a little discounted” in most fields, said Linda Barrington, executive director of the Institute for Compensation Studies at Cornell University’s ILR School. “Employers won’t pay what the last person in the job was paid because labor is now on sale.”" << ahh, i can taste the sweet butthurt tears of bahamas and his dream of a fully employed economy. "no one could've predicted" eh ?
Wed Feb 03 05:28:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it is a bitcoin expert / gavin economist / miner leader and otherwise important reddit person.
Tue Feb 02 16:49:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> same place the us is keeping its real economy!
Tue Feb 02 00:44:04 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-02-2016#1393428 << a) only because 'economy of scale' b) hdd total cost of ownership IF YOU NEED 100% uptime is quite high
Mon Feb 01 21:34:47 UTC 2016 <ascii_butugychag> actually i must disagree with one point - general-purpose, e.g., x86, cpu, is full of so much crud that asicization is economical and quite inevitable
Mon Feb 01 16:08:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yes there's some economy of scale to be had with well designed flash banks, made each the size of a block etc.
Sun Jan 31 19:10:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and even without the economic consideration, from a purely intellectual perspective. what is this inhuman, anti-intellectual "the bitcoin developers" bs ? we're not living in the village of pythagora over here, and we don't expect "anonymity" to stand in for sovereignity like five years old. gimme the motherfucking list.
Sun Jan 31 11:11:52 UTC 2016 <BingoBoingo> hand, he voted for change advanced by the Obama team?s marketing "hopium" which resulted in him running in circles backwards in socio-economic terms."
Sun Jan 31 06:04:21 UTC 2016 <pete_dushenski> author is "Don Tapscott a best-selling author most recently The Digital Economy, Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and the chancellor of Trent University."
Sun Jan 31 03:46:01 UTC 2016 <pete_dushenski> additionally, with a gallon of gas a ~$1 stateside, NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT FUEL ECONOMY
Sun Jan 31 03:43:14 UTC 2016 <pete_dushenski> with fuel economy."
Sat Jan 30 16:31:42 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but THAT was not only an economic activity - it was the only economic activity in bitcoin at the time.
Sat Jan 30 13:27:06 UTC 2016 <assbot> Explicit cookie consent | The Economist ... ( http://bit.ly/1nEwGzJ )
Fri Jan 29 18:44:00 UTC 2016 <thestringpuller> "And minoritycoins will be worth much less than majoritycoins, because they are worse in every practical way. They take longer to confirm, fewer people accept them for payment, they are protected by less hash power, and they are much more difficult to transact safely." << Not if majority coin is sunk early on and money flees to minority coin. What "actual" economists is this d00d hanging out with that "vetted his scaling propos
Thu Jan 28 13:23:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but whatever, "the internet contains all human knowledge" and consequently all the discussion re oil economy post the arab shock never happened,
Thu Jan 28 00:03:41 UTC 2016 <pete_dushenski> "…teacher pay in the United States seems more like something from Soviet-era Russia than 21st century America. Wages for teachers are low, egalitarian and not based on performance. We pay phys ed teachers about the same as math teachers despite the fact that math teachers have greater opportunities elsewhere in the economy. As a result, we have lots of excellent phys ed teachers but not nearly enough excellent math
Tue Jan 26 16:23:51 UTC 2016 <pete_dushenski> "Ricardo Hausmann, a former minister of planning of Venezuela and former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, is Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at Harvard University, where he is also Director of the Center for International Development. He is Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Meta-Council on Inclusive Growth." << peterl you think this guy's worried about tec
Tue Jan 26 16:22:06 UTC 2016 <pete_dushenski> this obviously has less to do with economies of scale and more to do with quantity not being equal to quality.