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If I were a statist Marxist I'd strongly point to the fact that the Soviet union *didn't even use computers to do its central planning*: how the hell are you even supposed to be doing that?

Project Cybersyn was the millennial blossom that got snuffed out bc chance.

But today we have supercomputers and our economies aren't *that* more complicated, planned economies would just work.

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I'll take a second to appreciate that the SBF thing is really bad

> feeling offended by @jeffkt saying the local timeline isn't that interesting

Hah

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outcome: they send back the same list+three more numbers

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Morality has been naughty, it's now grounded.

We are witnessing the greatest resurrection story since Forum Magnum

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It's surprising that soviet style centrally planned economy took more than *70 years* to collapse. I think most libertarians would have predicted it to collapse way earlier.

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this is an official niplav™ account

i swear

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i have limited patience for explaining why bad ideas are bad and must spend it wisely

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