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Thu Dec 17 23:24:37 UTC 2015 <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."
Thu Dec 17 22:49:39 UTC 2015 <adlai> it's all about fuel economies of scale, haven't you read your grukman?
Thu Dec 17 22:25:40 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> "Government spending accounts for 40% of Tibet’s GDP, while 10-15% is the more usual level for other provinces. In a cyclical sense this is beneficial, as Tibet is hardly feeling the current slowdown at all: it reported 9.8% real GDP growth for the first three quarters of 2015. But the reason they’re not feeling the slowdown is that they didn’t have a real economy to begin with. It’s a bunch of civil servants
Thu Dec 17 22:25:37 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> tibet - originally a theocratic hellhole that makes medival catholicism look tolerant and economically +ev - is today a usg-maintained 'antichina'
Thu Dec 17 22:24:44 UTC 2015 <assbot> Tibet’s Potemkin economy | Andrew Batson's Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1Oa8Bpi )
Thu Dec 17 22:24:42 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> http://andrewbatson.com/2015/12/17/tibets-potemkin-economy/ << tibetans are government leeches who are unable to produce anything of value, but that doesn't stop them from topping all the 'happiness' indeces time and time again.
Thu Dec 17 17:18:08 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "things like finance, marketing, strategy, economics, design, technology etc.". ytou know, just like neuroscience is all about "things like neurons, axons, mielin etc", just so entrepreneurtardism is an unstructured soup of nothing in particular.
Thu Dec 17 17:16:48 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> Throughout sophomore year I read all I could about startups, and about things like finance, marketing, strategy, economics, design, technology etc. The following summer I started learning some HTML, CSS, JS and PHP, but didn?t make much progress (I also started a very early version of the website that I?m writing this post about)."
Thu Dec 17 14:10:09 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Instead of sucking it up, discounting our losses, and moving on, we did what every good economist should never, EVER do: we incorporated our sunk costs into our expected future outlays. We decided, on the basis of our spending, that what we should be doing is spending EVEN MORE on marketing."
Thu Dec 17 13:02:16 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345340 << and i also don't buy into this narrative. soviet russia was also a middling successful economy up until... what, hruschev decided to bury you ? i guess. the fact of the matter is that there's a shelf life for all delusion, printed right on the box. seoul adapted, pyongyang did not adapt. yes, it's true that neither had the resoureces to force the adaptation of t
Wed Dec 16 23:08:48 UTC 2015 <assbot> Re: [bitcoin-dev] Block size: It's economics & user preparation & moral hazard ... ( http://bit.ly/1T2qJpu )
Wed Dec 16 22:58:57 UTC 2015 <assbot> Lejitz comments on "In a $6.6B economy, it is criminal to let the Service undergo an ECE without warning users loudly, months in advance" - Jeff Garzik ... ( http://bit.ly/1T2q2fV )
Wed Dec 16 22:04:29 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> Could even be economically +ev
Wed Dec 16 22:03:32 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> (photovoltaics are thermodynamically -ev, but economically interesting because they... work while they work. and hence 'lock in' some joules for the owner)
Wed Dec 16 16:58:13 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "The outcome? Based on subsequent actuarial, statistical, and financial analyses, we concluded that not a single dollar spent on videography amounted to a single dollar in revenue generated by those investments. In other words, every dollar we spent on videography and on models was, economically speaking, a complete and utter deadweight loss (photography actually proved to be very effective early on, and should we have
Wed Dec 16 02:17:19 UTC 2015 <TheNewDeal> they're trying to reverse this whole bitcoin economy
Tue Dec 15 19:42:10 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> ascii_field the difference between "not work for competition" and "capital control" is inexistent - the us is a centrally controlled economy just like the su. and so, the soviets couldn't leave because "the state invested in their education", right ?
Tue Dec 15 18:56:54 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> there exist people in this world who are economically worthless because they are argentines. giving them an opportunity to starve so as to work for me, a guy that isn't economically worthless for being argentine, is a -ev play for most and a +ev play for some.
Tue Dec 15 18:46:32 UTC 2015 <thestringpuller> But it's not really an economics problem. Game artists are borderline cultists...a game artist will work for free for say Nintendo just cause it's nintendo...
Tue Dec 15 18:45:36 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> argentina is about as economically dead as you'd expect of a soy & other cash crops exporter.