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Tue Dec 15 18:43:48 UTC 2015 <*> ascii_field doesn't spend much time around the certified economically-dead folk
Tue Dec 15 18:41:17 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> kentucky is not a magical enclave of the economically +ev
Tue Dec 15 18:35:30 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> coupla 20something kids that anyone simply wants to see raped to death. they're the couch surfing, biking, "creative" minds of the tomorrow / "economies of scale of being youtube famous meaning not famous"
Tue Dec 15 14:32:18 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Platforms like YouTube mirror the U.S. economy?s yawning wealth gap, and being a part of YouTube?s ?middle class? often means grappling daily with the cognitive dissonance of a full comments section and an empty wallet. Journalists kvell over stars like Swedish gamer Pewdiepie, whose net worth is around $12 million, or comedian Jenna Marbles, who?s worth around $2.5 million. On the other extreme, fan-funding
Tue Dec 15 07:17:42 UTC 2015 <assbot> The sad economics of being famous on the internet | Fusion ... ( http://bit.ly/1SYCfCs )
Tue Dec 15 02:40:53 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> Thus second main drawback to piece rates is that they motivate the worker to put out more quantity at the expense of quality. This can be devastating. The tendency of communist countries to pay piece rates, rather than hourly rates, is one reason that, while the Soviet bloc?s quantity (and thus the most straightforward measurements of economic growth) was able to keep up with the West, quality did not (thus the
Tue Dec 15 00:12:49 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "The economic tyranny of the late Roman Empire had left a devastated polity, a culture in Western Europe that had lost its knowledge of civilized commercial practice and accustomed to seeing government not as a source of any productive assistance to commerce, but only a destroyer of commerce from which commerce must hide. "
Sun Dec 13 22:12:42 UTC 2015 <assbot> The Newman School -> IB Economics Students Meet with MIT Bitcoin Club President ... ( http://bit.ly/220hgVK )
Sat Dec 12 07:40:45 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> anyway, the diocletian edict is a fine example. the problem isn't even economic there, it's purely political. "oh, we have a problem we don't know how to solve, here's some red tape" "tell you what - it's not worth the risk of dealing with your red tape AT ALL. see ya". "oh noes! who could have predicted!"
Sat Dec 12 04:48:03 UTC 2015 <assbot> Ten Economic Blunders from History | Mises Daily ... ( http://bit.ly/1Y3SJj9 )
Sat Dec 12 04:48:02 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> https://mises.org/library/ten-economic-blunders-history << lulzy, found by chance
Fri Dec 11 08:37:38 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> "Not any more. It seems the manufacturer, as a result of its actions, has decided to effectively kill the use of their drug. At $35 a dose, nobody is going to use it in the ED and hospital pharmacy committees are going to sharply restrict the use of the IV version of the drug to the point of extinction. As well they should." << Note economics is only possible when there are alternatived like dilaudid.
Thu Dec 10 17:56:11 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> in also lulzy news, the maryland-based righteous ddosing of trilema earlier was kinda weak and ineffectual, when compared to the standard angry economics driven ddosen we've seen over the years.
Thu Dec 10 17:05:44 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "But the bigger problem ? and the real problem for investors ? is how little of a problem this persistent underperformance is for VCs themselves. LPs have created and perpetuate an industry of such structural economic misalignment that VCs can underperform and not only survive, but thrive."
Thu Dec 10 05:17:54 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "helping the economy" ?
Tue Dec 08 21:45:57 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> "Canada could theoretically follow the lead of other countries that have recently gone to negative interest rates in order to stimulate the economy, central bank governor Stephen Poloz told a business audience today after yet another drop in the loonie." << PLZ TO MOAR STIMULA7333 !!!1
Mon Dec 07 23:20:13 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> so my point is, to sum it up : that the prohibition of the drug trade has nothing to do with economics. it is a purely political choice, of trying to enact equality between the poor and the rest. this desperate, doomed nonsense may be ineffectual, painful, difficult, costly or what else have you, boring, whatever. it is nevertheless the ONLY thing that keeps the average lifespan of the not-us from being ~24 ; and the f
Mon Dec 07 23:15:02 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> (here's a hint : imbecile argentines imagine a tiny 1000 sqft apt is worth 150-200k usd, in their shit town. why ? why, because the government's been printing money, and people kept "investing" it, there's about two to five trillion pesos that have to be wiped out of the economy before it can return to working)
Mon Dec 07 19:37:10 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-12-2015#1338114 << i'm agreeing with you dude, thus 'service economy' line. i know full well that nfld had jack all for an economy 15 years ago and will likely be back where it started 15 years hence.