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Fri Feb 27 23:56:18 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> gabriel_laddel: The thing is I don't like doing the escrow thing. To discourage that I charge too much to make the choice of myself as an escrow economical
Thu Feb 26 03:44:27 UTC 2015 <thestringpuller> The gas van was invented in the Soviet Union in 1936, by Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast which suffocated batches of prisoners with engine fumes in a camouflaged bread van while on the drive out to the mass graves at Butovo, where the prisoners were subsequently buried.
Thu Feb 26 03:41:45 UTC 2015 <thestringpuller> The gas van was invented in the Soviet Union in 1936, by Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast which suffocated batches of prisoners with engine fumes in a camouflaged bread van while on the drive out to the mass graves at Butovo, where the prisoners were subsequently buried.
Wed Feb 25 16:42:45 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> that's how these economies always close.
Wed Feb 25 16:41:51 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: back to the cn phactory gurlz, it's an open economic question whether a particular one can physically generate enough wealth to pay for 'carroting' it
Tue Feb 24 02:11:54 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> why not ? bad for the economy.
Mon Feb 23 18:51:39 UTC 2015 <assbot> The Last Psychiatrist: Economy: Where We Go From Here ... ( http://bit.ly/18gaLqJ )
Mon Feb 23 04:31:42 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> unbalanced: On the plus side ATC's death highlighted a critical vulnerability in mining economics for alts
Sun Feb 22 18:38:23 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> inflation economy is basically the cheapest most reliable implementation of "crabs in the pot" to human society.
Sun Feb 22 18:38:05 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> chetty: [...] which makes stupid ideas like min wage even more ridiculous << there's simply no way to avoid it. it IS a stupid idea, of course, but in an inflation driven economy everyone just keeps trying to climb on everyone else.
Sat Feb 21 18:40:13 UTC 2015 <Adlai> "scientists say quantitative easing is BETTER" << "turn your economy around with this one weird trick!", "anarchists HATE him!"
Sat Feb 21 01:14:40 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform depends. if you're the homebody sort, keep 2-3 girls, marked economy of scale.
Sat Feb 21 01:12:28 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> slave gurlz suffer from inverse economy of scale ?
Fri Feb 20 22:32:03 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> point was trying to make was that mass economics (e.g. weed) are not applicable to ultra-niche affair where there are maybe three people in a continent who can even begin to attempt $task
Fri Feb 20 17:57:12 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then when we start hiring, we hire slaves, like anyone hiring << simply wanted to point out that all of the #b-a projects (with possible exception of kakobrekla's work) are powered a hundred percent by the fiat economy's surplus - that is, free hours of various folks involved - and to some extent are at the mercy of their day job fortunes (see, e.g., the demise of moiety)
Fri Feb 20 15:52:44 UTC 2015 <thestringpuller> cazalla: yea. "jump starting game economy"
Fri Feb 20 05:36:35 UTC 2015 <thestringpuller> cazalla: "To get the in-game economy going, EverdreamSoft plans to sell 70,000,000 BitCrystals, which is the premium currency used in Spells of Genesis to forge card packs or new items." << sounds like ethereum nonsense
Wed Feb 18 16:37:46 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> his rise in fact exactly mirrors this particular economic change, where shitgnomes finally became able to breach into computing.
Wed Feb 18 16:33:45 UTC 2015 <assbot> So the question is - do we really want to keep our market economy and see if it ... | Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bmaizk )
Wed Feb 18 05:49:56 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> that it was not deemed economical to use jewelled bearing, as americans did, and the oil of a certain inedible bean (forget which) was employed as lubricant