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Fri Jul 31 21:12:51 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "When America finally gets to the point when she legalizes prostitution, as she already has legalized homosexuality, she will be at the point when God will execute His judgment upon her, I.e., Death. In Seminar #2, we demonstrate to you that we believe the "Economic Babylon" in Revelation 18 is the United States of America. Read this chapter with this thought in mind, and shudder at the physical destruction God may hav
Fri Jul 31 18:03:03 UTC 2015 <danielpbarron> not my kind of humor in the flavor text and the economy is not good enough to stick around
Fri Jul 31 02:29:37 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> decimation: I doubt it. The steps where humans are involved are the ones where X has to be moved to Y. Ones where the chromosonally retarded can perform adequate error checking. Perhaps the right machines exist in some bunker, or it isn't economical to produce them though they have been developed.
Thu Jul 30 14:11:16 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> now make the economics work.
Thu Jul 30 14:11:09 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> just as soon as the economics make sense, your x86 nemesis is gone. two years, tops.
Wed Jul 29 21:39:11 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> actually eulora economy is like 10 btc.
Wed Jul 29 21:34:39 UTC 2015 <jurov> but seriously, eulora's economy is several BTC worth by now
Wed Jul 29 04:35:45 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> "Drivers who work for Uber should verify their vehicles are insured for commercial use, the Insurance Bureau of Canada said Tuesday after the Alberta government concluded the ride-hailing service's insurance policies don't meet that province's requirements." << ayup. sv's 'sharing economy' is a whole whack of insurance fraud.
Tue Jul 28 10:36:11 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> ego trips being of course an economic surplus phenomenon, and the us being pretty much wrung out of any sort of surplus whatsoever, expect a lot of such arguments to come.
Mon Jul 27 18:11:22 UTC 2015 <trinque> I see the chinese strategy as having been to bootstrap their own industrial economy by sucking the life out of ours. (obviously not an observation hard to come by)
Mon Jul 27 18:04:41 UTC 2015 <trinque> why do they need to design new chips from scratch to unseat the USA as the leading economic and military power?
Sun Jul 26 15:42:18 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> those factories are not there. and there is no economic mechanism for building them again.
Sun Jul 26 10:49:01 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> trhis is not even a moral issue, or some sort of bullshiot about rights. this is the nudest, rudest self preservation at work. if you wish to force (and by allowing, you force) the knife maker to have opinions of knife usage, you have created the worst sort of socialist centrally commanded economy possible.
Sun Jul 26 09:36:32 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-07-2015#1212838 << when you're done distorting the economy you can start distorting the wave function.
Sun Jul 26 09:36:32 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 26-07-2015 02:25:03; decimation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-07-2015#1212646 < this is a good point (taxation is always political). yet it does have economic consequences, and I would prefer to distort the economy toward favoring work and saving over consumption
Sun Jul 26 05:26:34 UTC 2015 <decimation> "Microsoft, the ruling king of mass marketed trinketware, are just surfing on the same tsunami that lifted Taiwan and Hong Kong from poverty into an inflated economy that just _had_ to crash down and wash out _enormous_ values some day.
Sun Jul 26 02:25:03 UTC 2015 <decimation> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-07-2015#1212646 < this is a good point (taxation is always political). yet it does have economic consequences, and I would prefer to distort the economy toward favoring work and saving over consumption
Sun Jul 26 02:25:03 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 25-07-2015 13:56:36; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1212302 << taxation is first and foremost a political activity. it is an economic activity as a very distant second. the noton that "it'd ok because we;re doing productive milking" misses the point by about the same berth as the notion that "it's ok, we don't need guns because we got money". this is simply not how the car works.
Sat Jul 25 13:56:36 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1212302 << taxation is first and foremost a political activity. it is an economic activity as a very distant second. the noton that "it'd ok because we;re doing productive milking" misses the point by about the same berth as the notion that "it's ok, we don't need guns because we got money". this is simply not how the car works.
Fri Jul 24 03:56:20 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 24-07-2015 03:52:52; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1211222 << basically this is the argument against sr economicality all over again then ?