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Wed May 13 00:31:03 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> it's diocletian's war economy again.
Mon May 11 21:58:38 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> taking shit from b-a log and pretending like your "expert" economists finally figured it out a month later is one thing. taking code and backporting it is harder to deny.
Mon May 11 21:52:16 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> * jurov proposes opening D.GBTC to close the circle :DDD << i would, if i didn't know in advance that the entire charade is entirely outside of any sort of economical considerations.
Sun May 10 21:05:41 UTC 2015 <decimation> does this mean that pure capitalism tends to fragile oligarchy while government direction of the economy leads to a greater diversity of economic practices?
Sun May 10 19:49:38 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 10-05-2015 17:35:26; asciilifeform: just the 'palace economy' you inherently get, from a chip fab costing what it costs
Sun May 10 18:49:11 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> williamdunne nigeria was originally a booming oil economy, attracted a lot of people. then it went stale, and for a while throughout the 90s there was a large community of desperate, socially marginal young men, who took to playing internet con games. eventually there was some reaction in the shape of, "con the nigerians".
Sun May 10 18:44:27 UTC 2015 <*> mircea_popescu has kicked ben_vulpes for treason and undermining the national economy
Sun May 10 17:47:26 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> the 'economically rational' thing to do, is, invariably, to suck cock of highest bidder.
Sun May 10 17:46:54 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> until they decided, again economically entirely rationally, that it costs far too much for no tangible gain
Sun May 10 17:35:26 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> just the 'palace economy' you inherently get, from a chip fab costing what it costs
Sun May 10 17:25:26 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> cn appears to have no traces whatsoever of any indigenous tradition of cpu design. and they understand what kind of investment would be involved in changing this, and behave perfectly logically from economic point of view, and say 'fuck that'
Sat May 09 17:37:09 UTC 2015 <assbot> The economics of sinking 20 MB Gavincoin blocks. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1KTyKJP )
Sat May 09 17:37:08 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> i loooove it when a derpy commenter drops a payload like this on my lap : http://www.contravex.com/2015/02/11/the-economics-of-sinking-20-mb-gavincoin-blocks/#comment-17319
Fri May 08 17:40:52 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 04-04-2015 02:27:30; asciilifeform: 'Sometimes it is a comfort to me to think that the aeroplane is altering the conditions of war. Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.' -- orwell. but i'd ask for 'an economist starved to death'
Fri May 08 17:40:07 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> wtf happened to those economists, have they lost their echonomy jobs because of it ?
Fri May 08 17:39:51 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> when we were discussiong this in january, he had talked to economists that said it's not true...
Wed May 06 20:50:57 UTC 2015 <trinque> ???Our country is a poor and agrarian country,??? he told GlobalPost on Monday. ???But it???s home to decent people who want their country to flourish, to be closer to European standards, and for it to find its economic niche alongside the European Union.??? << lol europe pls halp
Wed May 06 03:34:00 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "7. Over 200 businesses, including at least 13 pharmacies, and up to a third of liquor stores, have been wiped from the face of the earth, many of them minority businesses which are uninsured and will not recover. This places the drug gangs in a position to expand the illegal economy in areas where businesses will not return?as they did not return after the 1968 riots?which offsets losses of territory recently suff
Tue May 05 22:39:17 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-05-2015#1121502 << you have to understand something essential about drugs : they aren't products. this in the sense that their flux isn't pull, it's push (which is why the sellers are called pushers). so no, the mexican economy does not rely on others buying drugs anymore than britain's economy relied on chinese buying opium.
Tue May 05 21:43:05 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://www.antena3.ro/economic/auto/cum-arata-cea-mai-scumpa-autostrada-din-lume-9-miliarde-de-dolari-pentru-40-de-kilometri-277914.html << there. 9bn for 40 kms. BIOTCH.