Notes concerning “Economics”
Barcode receipts
2007 to 2009 (6 minutes)
Microfinance
2007 to 2009 (6 minutes)
Rich programmers
2007 to 2009 (4 minutes)
Food miles imply insignificant energy costs
2007 to 2009 (4 minutes)
Predictions for future technological development (2008)
2008-04-19 (11 minutes)
mechanical computation: with Merkle gates, height fields, and thread
2010-06-28 (36 minutes)
Dollar auctions and tournaments in human society
2013-05-17 (7 minutes)
Review notes for Chris Anderson’s “Makers”
2013-05-17 (5 minutes)
Some personal notes from February 2014
2014-02-13 (8 minutes)
What would a basic income guarantee for Argentina cost?
2014-04-24 (7 minutes)
2025 manufacturing and economics scenario
2014-04-24 (24 minutes)
Ideas to ship in 2014
2014-04-24 (updated 2019-05-05) (35 minutes)
Exponential technology and capital
2016-02-18 (updated 2017-07-19) (8 minutes)
The internet is probably not going to collapse for economic reasons
2016-09-06 (9 minutes)
Solving the incentive problem for censorship-resistant DHTs
2016-09-07 (updated 2019-05-21) (3 minutes)
Hybrid RAM
2016-09-24 (5 minutes)
Clanking replicators
2016-11-30 (3 minutes)
Where did the Rubius comic book come from?
2017-01-10 (4 minutes)
Self replication changes
2017-01-16 (5 minutes)
The continuous-web press and the continuous press of the World-Wide Web
2017-03-20 (6 minutes)
A minimal-cost diet with adequate nutrition in Argentina in 2017 is US$0.67 per day
2017-06-15 (4 minutes)
Japan can achieve energy autarky via solar energy, but not much before 2027
2017-07-12 (4 minutes)
Low-carbohydrate diets are ecologically sustainable
2018-04-27 (2 minutes)
2017 [Provisional English translation of intercepted transmission]
2018-04-27 (updated 2018-07-14) (13 minutes)
Dutch auction raffle
2018-06-05 (3 minutes)
The uses of introspection, reflection, and personal supercomputers in software testing
2019-02-04 (updated 2019-03-11) (12 minutes)
Ultralight tunnel personal rapid transit
2019-03-11 (15 minutes)
Gardening machines
2019-04-02 (updated 2019-04-24) (32 minutes)
Better be weird
2019-06-17 (updated 2019-06-24) (9 minutes)
Replacing fractional-reserve banking with a bond market disintermediated with a blockchain
2019-07-03 (6 minutes)
Terrestrial lithium supplies provide adequate energy storage to reach Kardashev Type 1
2019-07-25 (6 minutes)
Energy storage efficiency
2019-07-30 (4 minutes)
The fable of the specialized fox
2019-08-17 (1 minute)