Re: Private urban green space

2004-08-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
by government officials. I should have been more explicit, but you evidently get the meaning. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Private urban green space

2004-08-01 Thread Sampo Syreeni
interesting because they perfectly illustrate how hard econ can be. I mean, the simple rationality assumption we often apply to people clearly ceases to apply in case of public goods and all the various private ways people deal with their existence. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel

Re: Siberia and Canada

2004-04-08 Thread Sampo Syreeni
correction, would we witness some other circular concentration of population, or perhaps two separate bands centered on a great (perhaps tilted) circle around the planet? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi

Re: How do I convince New Agers that not everybody should get the same wage?

2004-01-19 Thread Sampo Syreeni
value more seriously. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Too many choices

2004-01-06 Thread Sampo Syreeni
? And if they have, why the change? (It shouldn't come as a surprise that, as a libertarian, I'm prone to blaming creeping socialism for these sorts of things. ;) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy

Re: Why is a dollar today worth more than a dollar tomorrow?

2003-12-05 Thread Sampo Syreeni
? That'd kill you, after all, because eating is consumption. This shows us that people have at least some urgent desires which aren't interchangeable with longer term ones. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi

Re: Why is local currency good or bad or neither?

2003-10-31 Thread Sampo Syreeni
a couple of months later. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Why is local currency good or bad or neither?

2003-10-31 Thread Sampo Syreeni
the ordinary cash economy. What is more neighbourly is the local organization and the relationships it fosters. So why not just use federal paper dollars for that? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi

Re: Why is local currency good or bad or neither?

2003-10-31 Thread Sampo Syreeni
easily see that all sex is actually prostitution of one kind or another. Not that I'd easily argue that in public... ;) -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C