And ( to my ear ) the always reliable Dean Baker addresses "the money thing" in "Rigged". Scott Sumner has also written at length on the subject. There are two mandates to the Fed - price stability and (…
New houses are built to what I consider exorbitant prices. People finance 4x annual income or more. The thing being sold is really the debt instrument, not the house itself.
It kind-of is magic - that is how money gets created.
I dunno. I think that at least globalization - as in the easily agreed on definition of globalization - is declining. After all, the various China seas seem to be becoming a Chinese lake, if we can project the…
All court proceedings are about finding fault.
An anedcote: my boss was PM for building a new building and his claim was that offices with sheetrock and (steel) studs was cheaper than cubes. We still had cubes. Because you have to have cubes. And of course the…
Real professional soldiers come from the Service Academies and while they're different from Gates & Zuckerberg, they are among our nations finest people, at least when hubris doesn't get 'em.
It's interesting - Johnny Cash was a SIGINT operative in Europe in the 1950s. I mean headsets and notepads. That's probably where he got a taste for amphetamines, at least one biographer thinks. "Here, take this, son.…
At least in the US, right now, all the hi-tech death machines get maintained by contractors or civilian employees of the services.
The press is being undermined by its economics. Trump just smelled weakness and attacked.
It's not myth, it's narrative. Antebellum slavery and Jim Crow were narratives[1]. Even worse, they're narratives based on phrenological "science". [1] see also a novel "The Klansman", the Word of that narrative made…
Can anyone shed light on why so many Stoic societies/clubs seem to be essentially religious? The Stoics I have read do not seem to be particularly religious nor of any particular creed - some were polytheist, some were…
The important thing to remember is that this caring is anomalous. I personally find Space Does Not Care to be quite liberating.
Those are slowly being identified as artifacts of trauma[1], at least the pathological cases are. SO imagine how prevalent they were in the Classical world. [1]] I don't hold that un-self-aware people are pathological...
I don't think Judaism has ever been a closed faith. I may have missed some interval of time where it was only by birthright or something. This being said, I don't think conversion is sought as it is in Islam and…
It's dualistic. On the material plane, I read it as "don't be entropic."
All those things are much easier to use as values than profit, since profit may include some fairly innocent or some fairly egregious rent-seeking. There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of that - but with one…
Since we cannot disentangle rents from non-rents profits, I doubt there will ever be a coherent set of ideas on the subject.
I wonder then how we classify a John Muir? Seems "deep green" to me. I think his oeuvre came from the Romantics. I am not doing Curtis' thesis justice; you'd have to see the ( freely available, SFAIK ) film. He doesn't…
I solved that problem by getting married in my musician phase :)
You have me at a loss- I'd say there are certainly alternatives. If I had to guess, I'd say most go that way, but that's purely a guess. Good point though - neither of them tried to self-learn in high school.
Yes. And it was her, her ... calculus of status.
That's why I asked "If". Apparently, based on the existence of this thread, there's interest in that. :) It may also expedite the creation of useful products. Why would we consider there is inevitably a tradeoff?…
The problem isn't gender per se; the problem is how we define success and how leadership works. We're up to our neck in all sort of hubris sprung from the cultural emphasis on ambition at any cost. As Charlie Sheen…
As anecdata, one daughter felt that pursuing computing wasn't socially acceptable ( she was a cheerleader and all ) and another felt the first instructor was an abject misogynist. Perhaps women find better things to do…
And ( to my ear ) the always reliable Dean Baker addresses "the money thing" in "Rigged". Scott Sumner has also written at length on the subject. There are two mandates to the Fed - price stability and (…
New houses are built to what I consider exorbitant prices. People finance 4x annual income or more. The thing being sold is really the debt instrument, not the house itself.
It kind-of is magic - that is how money gets created.
I dunno. I think that at least globalization - as in the easily agreed on definition of globalization - is declining. After all, the various China seas seem to be becoming a Chinese lake, if we can project the…
All court proceedings are about finding fault.
An anedcote: my boss was PM for building a new building and his claim was that offices with sheetrock and (steel) studs was cheaper than cubes. We still had cubes. Because you have to have cubes. And of course the…
Real professional soldiers come from the Service Academies and while they're different from Gates & Zuckerberg, they are among our nations finest people, at least when hubris doesn't get 'em.
It's interesting - Johnny Cash was a SIGINT operative in Europe in the 1950s. I mean headsets and notepads. That's probably where he got a taste for amphetamines, at least one biographer thinks. "Here, take this, son.…
At least in the US, right now, all the hi-tech death machines get maintained by contractors or civilian employees of the services.
The press is being undermined by its economics. Trump just smelled weakness and attacked.
It's not myth, it's narrative. Antebellum slavery and Jim Crow were narratives[1]. Even worse, they're narratives based on phrenological "science". [1] see also a novel "The Klansman", the Word of that narrative made…
Can anyone shed light on why so many Stoic societies/clubs seem to be essentially religious? The Stoics I have read do not seem to be particularly religious nor of any particular creed - some were polytheist, some were…
The important thing to remember is that this caring is anomalous. I personally find Space Does Not Care to be quite liberating.
Those are slowly being identified as artifacts of trauma[1], at least the pathological cases are. SO imagine how prevalent they were in the Classical world. [1]] I don't hold that un-self-aware people are pathological...
I don't think Judaism has ever been a closed faith. I may have missed some interval of time where it was only by birthright or something. This being said, I don't think conversion is sought as it is in Islam and…
It's dualistic. On the material plane, I read it as "don't be entropic."
All those things are much easier to use as values than profit, since profit may include some fairly innocent or some fairly egregious rent-seeking. There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of that - but with one…
Since we cannot disentangle rents from non-rents profits, I doubt there will ever be a coherent set of ideas on the subject.
I wonder then how we classify a John Muir? Seems "deep green" to me. I think his oeuvre came from the Romantics. I am not doing Curtis' thesis justice; you'd have to see the ( freely available, SFAIK ) film. He doesn't…
I solved that problem by getting married in my musician phase :)
You have me at a loss- I'd say there are certainly alternatives. If I had to guess, I'd say most go that way, but that's purely a guess. Good point though - neither of them tried to self-learn in high school.
Yes. And it was her, her ... calculus of status.
That's why I asked "If". Apparently, based on the existence of this thread, there's interest in that. :) It may also expedite the creation of useful products. Why would we consider there is inevitably a tradeoff?…
The problem isn't gender per se; the problem is how we define success and how leadership works. We're up to our neck in all sort of hubris sprung from the cultural emphasis on ambition at any cost. As Charlie Sheen…
As anecdata, one daughter felt that pursuing computing wasn't socially acceptable ( she was a cheerleader and all ) and another felt the first instructor was an abject misogynist. Perhaps women find better things to do…