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Thu Mar 13 14:07:53 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> because 50 years under a state directed economy destroys entrepreneurship, something romanians never were very good at anyway
Wed Mar 12 15:54:00 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> cryptography aside, there is the economic problem, : the only way to extract rents is rarity.
Tue Mar 11 20:22:57 UTC 2014 <ozbot> Check Your History : The Freeman : Foundation for Economic Education
Tue Mar 11 19:05:09 UTC 2014 <the20year2> It's accepted by a country with a 17t economy plus other economies resulting over 25t of gdp
Tue Mar 11 14:56:10 UTC 2014 <bitcoinpete> "If we really want perspective on privilege, the global implications of an easy to use payment system must be taken into account for its efficiency in providing aid directly to people all over the world—especially disadvantaged women, many of which must raise families on low resources while their partner finds work in more economically healthy areas."
Mon Mar 10 14:29:25 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> expert in the uk economy and britney spearism.
Mon Mar 10 14:27:42 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> His biography reads: ?Despite his tender years, Alex is a name to watch out for in the city. An expert in the UK economy, he works the currency markets, regularly trading millions.?
Sun Mar 09 15:25:54 UTC 2014 <bitcoinpete> "The other telling tale in terms of currency besides the fact that no central bank is going to ever let (go of) control of how they deal with their own economy, is no one that I've seen so far that's in traditional sales that is taking bitcoin keeps it as bitcoin. They all translate it to dollars. And if you translate it into dollars it's not a currency." - Mark Cuban
Sun Mar 09 01:07:50 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> 'arse-mouth loop system' economy.
Sat Mar 08 23:11:04 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves rift is of the azn economic persuasion
Fri Mar 07 11:04:06 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "Ponder this: the economic goodwill attributable to two paper routes in Buffalo - or a single See?s candy store - considerably exceeds the proceeds we received from this massive collection of tangible assets that not too many years ago, under different competitive conditions, was able to employ over 1,000 people."
Fri Mar 07 11:00:40 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> There is an investment postscript in our textile saga. Some investors weight book value heavily in their stock-buying decisions (as I, in my early years, did myself). And some economists and academicians believe replacement values are of considerable importance in calculating an appropriate price level for the stock market as a whole. Those of both persuasions would have received an education at the auction we held
Thu Mar 06 14:25:37 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> or whatever, fighting economic unequality and promoting the virtues of an unspecified, bug ridden codebase and the halfwits that nursed it to this day
Thu Mar 06 10:33:30 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform that https://static.pinboard.in/webstock_2014.htm is at least fucking ideologically bizarre. they represent electrification as this obscure political strategy move, when it's quite obvious the thing proceeded on economic rationale.
Thu Mar 06 03:23:45 UTC 2014 <artifexd> Huh. I enjoyed Reamde. Especially the discussions of in-game economics.
Wed Mar 05 20:11:31 UTC 2014 <Namworld> If people are paid as much as they produce, then there's the choice of not doing anything, or wasting effort for no profit. Economy doesn't runs and we return to self-sufficience (where everyone can finally be "paid" as much as they produce, literally.
Wed Mar 05 20:07:50 UTC 2014 <Namworld> [15:03] <mircea_popescu> mike_c it's unfair for richer people to afford better things. consequently, nobody wants to get rich anymore, and economy stops.
Wed Mar 05 20:03:32 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> mike_c it's unfair for richer people to afford better things. consequently, nobody wants to get rich anymore, and economy stops.
Wed Mar 05 10:53:38 UTC 2014 <punkman1> "COMRADE crypto movement designed to replicate the economic tactics used by the Comrade leaders of the USSR to rise the Soviet Union from the Ashes to what become the most powerful nation in the world (at the time)."
Wed Mar 05 02:01:11 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "So start with an interesting hypothetical: does everybody need to work anymore? I understand work from an ethical/character perspective, this is not here my point. Since we no longer need e.g. manufacturing jobs-- cheaper elsewhere or with robots-- since those labor costs have evaporated, could that surplus go towards paying people simply to stay out of trouble? Is there a natural economic equilibrium price where,