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Thu Dec 24 02:11:32 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> '19 nuclear reactors are in operation, with 2 more supposedly under construction. And this is in a country whose economy is in free-fall and is set to approach that of Mali or Burundi! The nuclear fuel for these reactors was being supplied by Russia. An effort to replace the Russian supplier with Westinghouse failed because of quality issues leading to an accident.'
Mon Dec 21 18:03:17 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> Closing technology leads to technical progress, which in this particular case disrupts the workings of an economic system, upsetting the balance of production and creating structural unemployment. From this point of view, closing technology is both a boon and an evil.'
Mon Dec 21 18:03:11 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> The first mention in the scientific literature of such a phenomenon is in K. Marx's discussion regarding the invention of the weaving mill, after which a great many weavers in Great Britain and India perished, having outlived their usefulness. In M. Delyagin's opinion, closing technologies are unprofitable to market economies and are thereby relegated to postindustrial and preindustrial nations.
Mon Dec 21 17:56:08 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 21-12-2015 00:27:34; mircea_popescu: nobody cares to look at the root causes. "hey derps ? you're being as inefficient as humanly possible" "well of course, any other course would be an economic disaster" "your idea of economy is like a rat's idea of hygiene : the more sewers the better" "so ?"
Mon Dec 21 05:15:20 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 21-12-2015 00:27:34; mircea_popescu: nobody cares to look at the root causes. "hey derps ? you're being as inefficient as humanly possible" "well of course, any other course would be an economic disaster" "your idea of economy is like a rat's idea of hygiene : the more sewers the better" "so ?"
Mon Dec 21 01:02:56 UTC 2015 <gabrielradio> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-12-2015#1338673 << heh you sure practice what you preach http://trilema.com/doua-fete-argumentul-economic
Mon Dec 21 00:27:34 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> nobody cares to look at the root causes. "hey derps ? you're being as inefficient as humanly possible" "well of course, any other course would be an economic disaster" "your idea of economy is like a rat's idea of hygiene : the more sewers the better" "so ?"
Mon Dec 21 00:26:23 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> heh. he's right there. it would be an pseudo-economic disaster, in the sense "economic" has come to carry in the world of "we just wanted to" and "we have come to expect".
Mon Dec 21 00:26:01 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Sadly, that is not an undesirable result. Bloated code does not just keep programmers employed, but managers and whole companies, internationally. Compact code would be an economic disaster. Because of its savings in team size, development time, storage requirements and maintainance cost."
Sat Dec 19 17:33:12 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform you seriously are quoting the fucking economist ?
Sat Dec 19 17:32:44 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 19-12-2015 14:23:47; pete_dushenski: https://archive.is/VdFt3 << or the impotence of the economist's paywall.
Sat Dec 19 14:23:48 UTC 2015 <assbot> In the Balkans, NATO has outmuscled Russia | The Economist ... ( http://bit.ly/1Jjbnre )
Sat Dec 19 14:23:47 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> https://archive.is/VdFt3 << or the impotence of the economist's paywall.
Sat Dec 19 06:33:57 UTC 2015 <liquidassets> Crash of fiat, if you have an undergraduate in economics circa 2009, means hyperinflation
Fri Dec 18 17:55:33 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> possibly the lulziest children's economic-themed tale of all time
Fri Dec 18 02:12:22 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> meanwhile, the contact points with the outside economy are controlled as well as they can be (they can't be - most of the local trade is in the hands of the chinese, who own the proud but stupid argentine. whenever i want to move dollars, or to dispose of any other actyual economic or poltiical matters, i talk to an asian person. no exceptions. i wouldn't break a date with han because macri called, sort of thing)
Fri Dec 18 02:08:37 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> so : argentina has many problems, economically, all of which reduce to "it's a country of 40mn useless douches, of which ~10 mn pretend to live like they saw in various imported tv shows, while the country is unfit to even export raw meat, so it lost those contracts and is now exporting soy"
Fri Dec 18 02:07:41 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 17-12-2015 23:24:37; pete_dushenski: " Argentina's peso plunged more than 26.5 percent on Thursday, after the country's new government floated the currency as part of a slew of free-market reforms aimed at revitalizing the stagnant economy."
Fri Dec 18 02:00:59 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 17-12-2015 22:25:37; ascii_field: tibet - originally a theocratic hellhole that makes medival catholicism look tolerant and economically +ev - is today a usg-maintained 'antichina'
Fri Dec 18 00:44:48 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345740 << at this point even children in zimbabwe likely know that not only does usg record every phone call in nato reich, but has been doing so since hdd platter cost fell to where it was economically feasible. but the portable mitm gadgets are for something else