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 (…
It kind-of is magic - that is how money gets created.
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...
It's dualistic. On the material plane, I read it as "don't be entropic."
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…
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?…
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…
During the Cold War, if one showed up in one of the weedout classes for EE, you got the "look to your left & right. One of you will not survive this process" lecture. EE was very seriously a defense discipline and the…
I raised two girls who found the "alpha geek" phenomenon totally repugnant. One is heading back into a CS degree in her thirties; the other went bio and is an entrepreneur. I have to wonder if the chasing away is not to…
This ranged from networking equipment to phone switches to equipment control. Most of it was bare metal. I've never written a business application in my life.
In the large, no, they don't care about the 90-95% of the code base that's not performance critical. And these days, the stuff that is critical will be #ifdef and asm(...) stew. I can't tell you how many projects I have…
Just use the parts that work unambiguously. It's a surprisingly small subset of the language.
Usury is One of Those Words. I don't know how a debt instrument needs a distinction like that. Our culture is such that we cannot make basic distinctions between rents in general and productive work. I suspect we'd have…
Of course I mean disparity in mass :) "Walkability" is inherently political ( goes to land use ) , and it's strongly correlated at least with people's identity. Cars have been about for 100 years, but it's only recently…
It seems that money creation would be tied to new loans no matter what. A first run through the paper seems to explain the '90s S&L crisis more than it does 2008 - the S&Ls were closer to the ILF model than the FMC…
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 (…
It kind-of is magic - that is how money gets created.
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...
It's dualistic. On the material plane, I read it as "don't be entropic."
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…
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?…
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…
During the Cold War, if one showed up in one of the weedout classes for EE, you got the "look to your left & right. One of you will not survive this process" lecture. EE was very seriously a defense discipline and the…
I raised two girls who found the "alpha geek" phenomenon totally repugnant. One is heading back into a CS degree in her thirties; the other went bio and is an entrepreneur. I have to wonder if the chasing away is not to…
This ranged from networking equipment to phone switches to equipment control. Most of it was bare metal. I've never written a business application in my life.
In the large, no, they don't care about the 90-95% of the code base that's not performance critical. And these days, the stuff that is critical will be #ifdef and asm(...) stew. I can't tell you how many projects I have…
Just use the parts that work unambiguously. It's a surprisingly small subset of the language.
Usury is One of Those Words. I don't know how a debt instrument needs a distinction like that. Our culture is such that we cannot make basic distinctions between rents in general and productive work. I suspect we'd have…
Of course I mean disparity in mass :) "Walkability" is inherently political ( goes to land use ) , and it's strongly correlated at least with people's identity. Cars have been about for 100 years, but it's only recently…
It seems that money creation would be tied to new loans no matter what. A first run through the paper seems to explain the '90s S&L crisis more than it does 2008 - the S&Ls were closer to the ILF model than the FMC…