I did it! I'm in the gauge now!!!
"I don't write short stuff" - @LynAldenContact LEGEND 馃憫
This entire line of argument will likely never go away, given it was refuted in its entirety as early as May 2011 in the now legendary Bitcoin is Worse is Better..
one of my favourite books - absolutely essential reading these days along with Havel's The Power Of The Powerless and Markov's The Truth That Killed, brilliantly reviewed by Robin Ashenden. (who appears not to have twitter)
In the remarkable essay, Economic Consequences of Organized Violence, historian Frederic Lane emphasizes the importance of sovereign competition in using and controlling violence in an era of more mobile capital than we are used to today
at this point I'm convinced that @gladstein knows more about the geopolitics of FX markets than just about anybody else in the world. read this. more than once.
if you're not watching this then I guess you either don't like the future or do like the champions league
GEB is my favourite nonfiction book, by a long, long way. It is many people鈥檚 favourite nonfiction book by a long, long way.
Three main ones. One is "The Ultimate Resource" Julian Simon.. Time, very interesting.. And how to conceive of time..
The second one: The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto
There is a great reason article from 1996.
very cool.