Comments on: Hacked Matter

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:23:05 +0000

I suppose Margaret Atwood must think some fundy Christians have taken over Japan… and, in a very strange way, she’d actually be right.

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:21:09 +0000

@VXXC The Japanese have apparently invented a really REALLY good (super expensive & apparently worth it, don’t ask how I know) vibrator and well… all the boys still have hands, plus the best stimulating imagery no money need buy, I guess. The Japs sure have come a long way. Who needs Soma?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:25:13 +0000

The point is simply that micro solutions systematically lack macro articulations (that, in important respects, simply IS capitalism). I’ll try to provide a more adequately elaborated and lucid version, that you can get your teeth into, in the next few days.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:23:24 +0000

Guardian [and ZH] notice the Japanese aren’t having sex.

Of course not, they don’t want babies. What is the point? However this completely eclipses the Guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex?CMP=twt_gu

By: Mark Warburton

Mark Warburton — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:58:01 +0000

Soz. I was tired. ‘Dusk heap’. Haha.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 05:30:50 +0000

It’s fragility of logic actually.

By: Mark Warburton

Mark Warburton — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 22:31:27 +0000

I prefer hearing about these interesting intellectual developments happening over Shaghai-way than skimming through mountains of comments regarding some ignorant cato-type crying racist that’s for sure! In short, Hacked > Zacked. Regardless of your fears that he’d drop you (or at least contribute) on the ‘Derb dusk heap’, I think even his ‘research’ will be overlooked by – well – everyone. I say this even with Spandrell’s ‘logic of fraility’ in mind.

By: James A. Donald

James A. Donald — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 21:57:17 +0000

The output of a reasonably priced 3D printer using reasonably priced construction material resembles the material output by a glue gun. Unusably frail, and does not retain the intended shape.

Need a two step or three step process, where it outputs something rigid but brittle, which is then processed to make it somewhat less brittle, and then used as a mold for molten metal.

Alternatively, outputs hard setting plastic that get cured by UV as it is laid down.

Or outputs molten sugar in an artificially dry environment, which brittle and water sensitive materiel then gets used as a mold to make the actual part.

(Sugar is cheap, and sets hard)

Or outputs aluminium trimethoxide in an oven full of hot steam, to produce an very rigid object.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:31:44 +0000

Who do we buy and on what exchange? I for instance own a few AGOL…I think Singapore might keep money safe.

might.

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O/T…

Since it’s your week to be outraged, I must profane your page with Friedman. He says the Tea Party is like Hezbollah.

Oh Dear TPs if you read this…yes…yes…yes…take his advice. Remember the Inner Jihad is the important first step.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/opinion/sunday/from-beirut-to-washington.html?_r=0

By: Bryce Laliberte

Bryce Laliberte — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:51:52 +0000

>It’s a law of modernity that incentive problems never get resolved in theory, but only tweaked through selection, in practice.

Is this really a law of modernity, per se? I may be misunderstanding your meaning, but in theory isn’t selection the means by which nearly all incentive problems are resolved just due to the nature of what is being resolved? All problems of price (e.g. a determiner and function of incentive) can only come about through the market process, which is selective. What would you make of the Coase theorem?