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  1. Aug 2023
    1. this appears in writing, and preciously little even in oral communication.The point is that the disrepute of “speculation” or “dream” is such, thateven as a strictly private (not to say secret!) activity, it has a tendency tovegetate – much like the desire and drive of love and sex, in too repressivean environment.
    2. Of course, no creative mathematician can afford not to “speculate”, namelyto do more or less daring guesswork as an indispensable source of inspira-tion. The trouble is that, in obedience to a stern tradition, almost nothing of
  2. Jul 2022
    1. Speculation, herd exuberance, irrational optimism, rent-seekingand the temptation o f fraud drive asset markets to overshoot andplunge - which is why they need careful regulation, something Ialways supported. (M arkets in goods and services need lessregulation.)
  3. Feb 2022
    1. In crowded housing markets in large cities, house flipping is often viewed as a driver of inequality.

      If house flipping is viewed as a driver of inequality in crowded housing markets in larger cities, what spurs it on? What do the economics look like and how can the trend be combatted?

      What effect does economic speculation have?

  4. May 2021
    1. Jarrad Hall. (2021, May 9). There’s a lot of speculation that COVID may become less virulent. This is still an old concept in the field, akin to aerosol vs droplet. In my own field it was assumed that resistance came at the expense of virulence. [Tweet]. @CdrHBiscuitIII. https://twitter.com/CdrHBiscuitIII/status/1391265635749957632

  5. Mar 2021
  6. Oct 2020
  7. link-springer-com.uaccess.univie.ac.at link-springer-com.uaccess.univie.ac.at
    1. Second, I have argued that while some future projections are routinized andimplicit, others are developed through contentious communication, often elabo-rated in what I call“sites of hyperprojectivity.
    2. Second, I have argued that while some future projections are routinized andimplicit, others are developed through contentious communication, often elabo-rated in what I call“sites of hyperprojectivity.
  8. Jul 2020
  9. Feb 2020
    1. According to Eschwege, the total produce of the Brazilian diamond mines for the eighty years, ending in 1823, had not realised the price of one-and-a-half years’ average produce of the sugar and coffee plantations of the same country, although the diamonds cost much more labour, and therefore represented more value.

      Diamonds were first discovered in Brazil in 1729 near the city of Belo Horizonte. This started a diamond rush and a period of feverish migration of workers.

      Major diamond rushes also took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in South Africa and South-West Africa.

      Diamond rushes, like gold rushes or other types of rushes, are for Marx economic bubbles or asset bubbles (sometimes referred to today as speculative bubbles, market bubbles, price bubbles, financial bubbles, speculative manias, or balloons).

  10. Dec 2017
    1. Supposedly, Tianeptine, in contrast to other anti-depressants, stimulates release of neurotransmitter dopamine in nucleus Accumbens, that probably determine addictive potential of this drug.

      This potentially explains why tianeptine gives me energy. I've seen several other anecdotal reports as well. However, I've never taken illicit or prescription opioids, so I don't have a proper mode of comparison.

  11. Aug 2016
  12. Sep 2015
    1. Acidic pH

      Wonder if this is true in marine mammals, fish, worms that live in various environments. Am thinking with an evolutionary and developmental hat on. Just idle musing, wonder from a developmental perspective why acid and not alkaline (I think most soaps are alkaline) - mechanisms that differentiate breakoff points in the tree of life might be fun to learn about - to look smart.