• About Vinay Gupta

    Vinay Gupta is a consultant on disaster relief and risk management.

    http://hexayurt.com/plan

    Kind of brilliant…

    by  • April 3, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments

    Legotown Teachers notice kids fighting about lego distribution, institute socialism. National Review responds. Neither side seems to have a satisfactory answer unsurprisingly. The depth of the wrongheadedness of both sides is unnerving, but would you or I have done better in this situation I wonder?

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    The Economic Lives Of The Poor

    by  • April 3, 2007 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments

    A little light reading – 40 pages of details on how they spend their money, and how they get by. the economic lives of the very poor.pdf.zip The propensity to own a radio or a television, a widespread form of entertainment for American households varies considerably across countries. For example, among rural households living under [...]

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    Second Life economy actually a pyramid scheme?

    by  • April 3, 2007 • Science • 0 Comments

    Real money guy thinks so. What should have been a relatively small SLL/USD exchange trades given media claims about millions of dollars flying around per week in 2006, in reality caused the exchange markets to distort tremendously. We could not effectively move sums of more than a couple thousand dollars out of SL without the [...]

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