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Sat Oct 03 11:29:33 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290496 << the funny thing about australia is that it is a CONTINENT where maling 10 mn a year REVENUE makes you one of the biggest. this internet clearly has helped the economy.
Fri Oct 02 04:45:54 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> they still have universities, to be sure, but not quite enough to make an entire economy out of. though kaunus is pretty much a 'college town' i suppose.
Wed Sep 30 19:51:19 UTC 2015 <gribble> IBM: The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time: http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/evrrt.html; Doherty Threshold - Halt and Catch Fire Wiki: http://haltandcatchfire.wikia.com/wiki/Doherty_Threshold; TIL about the Doherty Threshold: < 400ms response time addicting ...: (1 more message)
Tue Sep 29 07:24:38 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Atypical Neurotic. An Illinois-born refugee from academia who in late middle-age finds himself a civil servant in Norway. An unashamed city-dweller, he walks 30 minutes every day to a job where he is not paid to be an economist (lawyer or accountant), only to sound like one."
Mon Sep 28 23:36:05 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> Philip Cook, a Duke University public policy and economics professor who has examined crime trends, said most gun robberies do not lead to violence but that perpetrators sometimes injure or kill to eliminate witnesses to a crime. "And in some cases it may have been purely gratuitous violence ? what I called recreational violence," Cook said.
Mon Sep 28 22:47:16 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> "Part of the initiative is to create around 20 cross-border Special Economic Zones. Khorgos, on the border with Kazakhstan, serves as a cautionary example: two years after the go-ahead China has built a city consisting of a number of multi-story shopping centers in the desert. In one of those buildings, for example, there are roughly one hundred shops, each one of them selling exactly the same product: fur coats."
Thu Sep 24 04:07:40 UTC 2015 <assbot> ciberaj comments on Whats going on in Venezuela (Economically)? Outsider asking. ... ( http://bit.ly/1NVc5Bv )
Thu Sep 24 04:07:37 UTC 2015 <brg444> speaking of lulzy matters: https://np.reddit.com/r/vzla/comments/3m1crr/whats_going_on_in_venezuela_economically_outsider/cvb6vd5?context=3
Wed Sep 23 18:44:41 UTC 2015 <wywialm> pete_dushenski, i hope not. i said that Bergoglio sounds leftist, because that is in my opinion broader than (at least economically understood) socialism
Wed Sep 23 16:31:41 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> y is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules. Debt and the accumulation of interest also make it difficult for countries to realize the potential of their own economies and keep citizens from enjoying their real purchasing power. To all this we can add widespread corruption and self-serving tax evasion, which have taken on worldwide dimensions. T
Wed Sep 23 15:48:55 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 23-09-2015 04:55:31; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278736 << turns out that i was off the mark here. to wit : "Emissions system and fuel economy testing is conducted while a vehicle is placed on a dynamometer—think of it as a two big rollers or a treadmill—rather than driving on the road. The vehicle has only its driving wheels rolling (the front ones, in the case of VW vehicles). But the rear tires
Wed Sep 23 04:55:31 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278736 << turns out that i was off the mark here. to wit : "Emissions system and fuel economy testing is conducted while a vehicle is placed on a dynamometer—think of it as a two big rollers or a treadmill—rather than driving on the road. The vehicle has only its driving wheels rolling (the front ones, in the case of VW vehicles). But the rear tires are station
Wed Sep 23 04:29:18 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> it's ironclad, sure. but a tank has not very good fuel economy.
Tue Sep 22 14:39:39 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Meanwhile, what remains on the other head of this two-headed economy besides driving to-and-from the Walmart? Pornography? The tattoo industry? Meth and narcotics? Prostitution? Professional sports on the flat screen? Kim and Kanye? Grand theft auto? Do you really think Donald Trump can fix this?" << prostitution.
Tue Sep 22 01:54:29 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 21-09-2015 16:57:27; ascii_field: 'Broadly, the design difference between Urbit and a blockchain network is that blockchains are "trust superconductors" - they eliminate any dependency on social, political or economic trust. Urbit is a "trust conductor" - engineered to minimize, but not eliminate, dependencies on trust.'
Tue Sep 22 01:07:11 UTC 2015 <assbot> We're Number 16! We're Number 16!, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fc4EmD )
Tue Sep 22 01:07:10 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/09/were_number_16.html << heh. usistan drops from 10th to 16th in 'economic freedom' in a span of just 4 years
Mon Sep 21 16:57:27 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> 'Broadly, the design difference between Urbit and a blockchain network is that blockchains are "trust superconductors" - they eliminate any dependency on social, political or economic trust. Urbit is a "trust conductor" - engineered to minimize, but not eliminate, dependencies on trust.'
Mon Sep 21 14:57:17 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> http://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20150919/54436644972/mas-colell-espana-obligada-pagar-pensiones-catalunya-independiente.html << bahaha. o man, wtf does 'la independencia
Sun Sep 20 23:18:41 UTC 2015 <adlai> (isn't this how you accomplish things in the Brave New Economy?)