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Whistling In The Wind
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Whistling In The Wind is a personal blog at whistlinginthewind.org about economics and politics. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link posts on Bitcoin bubbles and crashes, white-collar crime enforcement at the UK SFO, and behavioural economics. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
The issue with is that if you substitute social norms with money; it is hard to return to social norms later I.e., if you start paying; you have to continue paying. Predictably Irrational http://whistlinginthewind.org/2013/01/15/predictably-irratio...
Comment linking /2013/01/15/predictably-irrational-chapter-4-the-cost-of-social-norms/
on “Rewrite Everything in Rust”Submitted How to Immerse Yourself in Esperanto as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'd like to think that was the case. Unfortunately, there is an (economically self-defeating) incentive to cripple the SFO beyond mere cost-cutting measures. The same incentive is not true for reduced budgets at other organs of government. The scale of damage is jaw-droppingly huge and largely unacknowledged. Whilst the media are weirdly obsessed with street crime, white collar crime in the US (and one suspects, in…
Comment linking /2013/06/24/the-other-kind-of-crime/
on “Britain’s White-Collar Cops Are Getting Too Good at Their Job”If this article interested you, you might like https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/ . And here's more or less the same article from 2013 when price was $84: https://whistlinginthewind.org/2013/04/12/the-bitcoin-bubble... "So what now for bitcoin? It will crash and disappear like Pets.com, Leheman Brothers and Anglo Irish Bank, existing only in the memories of economists." "There have been some slight recoveries…
Comment linking /2013/04/12/the-bitcoin-bubble-has-burst/
on “Bitcoin, I've Been Here Before”