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Fri Jun 05 18:15:14 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Assuming, as economists usually do in aggregate analysis, that capital enhances the productivity of labor, and labor enhances the productivity of capital, then the efficient reaction to less labor is to have less capital. Investment is the rate of change of the capital stock, so even small reductions in the capital stock may be achieved by large investment reductions for a short period of time. For this reason, invest
Fri Jun 05 12:26:38 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> and so on and so forth, gavin's spoken to "economists" that agree with him except meanwhile they turn out to not exist and he has the support of business except all that business can't get a hundred bitcoin together. in which sense, it is obviously a subsection of the tardstalk forum - those guys got like 1k together to give marquardt so he could leave council housing.
Thu Jun 04 17:58:23 UTC 2015 <trinque> if it's simply "because economies of scale" come on
Wed Jun 03 16:59:44 UTC 2015 <liquidassets> this entire area's economy, where I'm at, mostly has been sustained through lots of liquidtide with bleach
Wed Jun 03 05:16:24 UTC 2015 <Landgull> Ascii: Most of the "economic development" in the world is fed by debt-bubbles.
Wed Jun 03 04:37:14 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> it requires functioning industrial economy
Tue Jun 02 16:25:00 UTC 2015 <nubbins`> "He proposes a two-way linking system that would point to the source of any piece of information, creating an economy of micropayments that compensates people for original material they post to the web."
Tue Jun 02 13:28:14 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> territory was important when the economy was based on working the land.
Mon Jun 01 20:05:36 UTC 2015 <flyplymouth> why would a billionaire invest in an airport? If they want to develop and grow Plymouth whilst also generating a good return. Recent studies from aviation industry have said that Plymouth Airport could add 240 jobs to local economy and £20m a year to wider economy. It also helps having one of the largest naval bases in Europe in Plymouth, which attracts manufacturers and business to visit the area
Mon Jun 01 19:54:44 UTC 2015 <flyplymouth> If you are using your own money to reopen the airport, you can just go ahead and open it. But to access money which is not repayable, whether it from Government or otherwise, they have to see that it stacks up over the long term and importantly that it has a wider benefit to the local / regional economy
Sun May 31 20:41:46 UTC 2015 <decimation> Anil Kashyap of U. Chicago '10 strong disagree' A gold standard regime would be a disaster for any large advanced economy. Love of the G.S. implies macroeconomic illiteracy.
Sun May 31 20:40:18 UTC 2015 <decimation> lol http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-results?SurveyID=SV_cw1nNUYOXSAKwrq < apparently now there's a 'facebook' for economists to 'like' ideas or not
Fri May 29 04:39:52 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> economy of scale
Mon May 25 03:12:55 UTC 2015 <isaackl> BitBet doesn’t have those kind of games and maybe that changes the economics? You have to persuade players to lay down 100 btc to net 1 btc in affiliate rev. Not easy to buy traffic which pays out 100x what you paid for it. With FB ads a typical game might net, say, $10 on average per user, and we’d be buying installs for maybe $5 and trying to optimise it to $3.
Sat May 23 07:31:16 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> rural economy, they're all peasants.
Fri May 22 20:14:51 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> then "everyone" (of the idiots) is simply copying their "price" and then the world derps abouit how "capitalism creates economic cycles"
Thu May 21 18:38:20 UTC 2015 <trinque> absent this are the economic considerations
Thu May 21 18:16:51 UTC 2015 <trinque> jurov: I am saying that if you think your problem is above economics, you're wrong.
Thu May 21 04:01:56 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> archaeologists tell us about, e.g., ancient minoan 'palace economies' where -everybody- had to go to the central cloth dispensary to get woven cloth where gurlz toiled in the weaving hall. but those who sat in the palaces may have pictured themselves at the 'stellar apex' but had nothing on modern idiotron. minoans did not, afaik, have to go to the palace to get fucked.
Thu May 21 02:52:41 UTC 2015 <AdrianoOliveira> decimation: our economy is a mess at the moment... and I don't think things will be back on track soon.