Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Libertarians, and conservatives engage in wishful thinking. Meanwhile the parasi

    Libertarians, and conservatives engage in wishful thinking. Meanwhile the parasites act.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-20 08:47:00 UTC

  • The Corrected History Of Civilization: Paternalism as Domestication

    (by Eli Harman) [A]dvanced civilization, with production and division of labor, is necessarily founded on property, which is a masculine innovation, the more private, the more masculine. Property is that which you obtain and maintain at personal cost, and that which you are willing and able to defend. Property rights are a subset of that property that your peers are willing to ensure, just as law is a subset of morality. Males evolved to specialize in the production of violence which sustains all property claims (and supply even the violence necessary to sustain communal forms of property in pre-civilized, matriarchal, societies.) Patriarchy and private property originate in bands of men organized for aggressive conquest, and the subsequent necessity of dividing the spoils of conquest (land, goods, and women) between them, organizing them for production, and defending them henceforth. Once unleashed on the world, patriarchal civilization proved unstoppable. And its advantages, in productivity, including but not limited to the production of violence, have only snowballed over time with the accumulation of capital and eugenic reproduction (made possible by restraining females’ dysgenic, egalitarian, tendencies.) Recent innovations to the contrary, which are really just regressive throwbacks to the paleolithic, were only made possible because one patriarchal society, Western civilization, attained such a commanding lead over adversaries and antagonists, that our forefathers thought they could afford to indulge their women without limit. And for a while, we could. But the madness has gone exponential, and a century and a half of unchecked consumption and decay wrought by faulty egalitarian premises have brought our enemies, once more, near enough to parity that they may begin punishing us for our folly. We will learn. Or we will die. But things will not continue as they were. Eli Harman.

  • The Corrected History Of Civilization: Paternalism as Domestication

    (by Eli Harman) [A]dvanced civilization, with production and division of labor, is necessarily founded on property, which is a masculine innovation, the more private, the more masculine. Property is that which you obtain and maintain at personal cost, and that which you are willing and able to defend. Property rights are a subset of that property that your peers are willing to ensure, just as law is a subset of morality. Males evolved to specialize in the production of violence which sustains all property claims (and supply even the violence necessary to sustain communal forms of property in pre-civilized, matriarchal, societies.) Patriarchy and private property originate in bands of men organized for aggressive conquest, and the subsequent necessity of dividing the spoils of conquest (land, goods, and women) between them, organizing them for production, and defending them henceforth. Once unleashed on the world, patriarchal civilization proved unstoppable. And its advantages, in productivity, including but not limited to the production of violence, have only snowballed over time with the accumulation of capital and eugenic reproduction (made possible by restraining females’ dysgenic, egalitarian, tendencies.) Recent innovations to the contrary, which are really just regressive throwbacks to the paleolithic, were only made possible because one patriarchal society, Western civilization, attained such a commanding lead over adversaries and antagonists, that our forefathers thought they could afford to indulge their women without limit. And for a while, we could. But the madness has gone exponential, and a century and a half of unchecked consumption and decay wrought by faulty egalitarian premises have brought our enemies, once more, near enough to parity that they may begin punishing us for our folly. We will learn. Or we will die. But things will not continue as they were. Eli Harman.

  • NUT DEVELOPMENT I’ve Been building software since the 70’s. In the late 80’s I u

    https://medium.com/@belisarius222/how-to-start-a-software-project-ad51373c1510#.t8pga6dzbLUG NUT DEVELOPMENT

    I’ve Been building software since the 70’s.

    In the late 80’s I use Agile before it had a name.

    This “Lug Nut” development is how I do software development today.

    “Just make it work. Refactor as soon as you figure out how.”

    Make no unnecessary investments.

    WHY HAVE WE ADOPTED THIS NEW METHODOLOGY?

    The cost of development, the cost of complile time, the cost of publishing updates once problems are found, have eliminated the value of attempting to imitate engineering, and we have migrated to the process of publishing documents that constantly are subject to editorial revision.

    I have said for decades that what we do is discourse to develop hypotheses and theories with our machines — that we do not practice engineering.

    It was the cost of construction of our discourse that made us imitate engineering and construction methods. In the present, we no longer engineer, we function far more like a debating society trying to discover a solution, and constantly updating our text.

    THE CUSTOMER PROBLEM

    But while this method is particularly useful for product and internal development, the customer is your enemy and his own enemy if you do not manage his fantasies.

    So this technique only possible (as is common) with experienced customers.

    We must undestand that develoment has never beeen a problem.

    The customers have always been the problem.

    They want to obtain retail purchases, and control a production process, for what is essentially a program of research and development.

    THE AUTHORING (DEVELOPER) PROBLEM

    And meanwhile, the lazy, unintelligent, and unskilled developers that seduce ignorant customers into employing them far above their skill levels export this behavior to the world. And customers desperate to compete by saving money on research and development are taken advantage of by the vast hordes of frauds in this business hoping to find suckers to finance their personal development and then move on, leaving the customer with failure and disappointment.

    ONE THING WE FAIL TO DO

    Technologists have not professionalized the industry in order to protect customers from unqualified craftsmen and thereby raise their rates and eliminate this problem of expectations. There is no test like the Bar, or public accountancy.

    What we do have is reputations. And we should be vicious in our recommendations of those who harm our industry with their behavior.

    PUNISH THE WICKED TO DEFEND THE COMMONS.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-20 08:42:00 UTC

  • Dear pussies. We must rule. If you are not strong enough to rule. Have the good

    Dear pussies. We must rule. If you are not strong enough to rule. Have the good grace to save yourselves. And at least fight for those who are willing and able to rule.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-20 08:24:00 UTC

  • Why are all these young women wandering through the hotel lobby wearing big whit

    Why are all these young women wandering through the hotel lobby wearing big white terrycloth robes? Its… strange.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-20 08:22:00 UTC

  • And no, destroying the financialization of the west does not involve ‘bitcoin’.

    And no, destroying the financialization of the west does not involve ‘bitcoin’. omg.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-20 08:21:00 UTC

  • (We don’t talk about fight club)

    (We don’t talk about fight club)


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-20 07:39:08 UTC

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  • There is a very big difference between conformity and not imposing costs. Confor

    There is a very big difference between conformity and not imposing costs. Conformity can be thought of as investing in the commons. Not imposing costs merely prevents harming them. One of the greater problems we have had is in destructive signalling and advertising as a luxury good. Signaling is one thing. Trying to get attention another. And exporting costs yet another.

    punish the wicked: the exporters of costs.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-20 06:23:00 UTC

  • Old fashioned military service teaches you that your silly little freaking job t

    Old fashioned military service teaches you that your silly little freaking job that seems mundane actually matters. Because when men are cold, or hot, tired or hungry, frightened or stressed, all those little things turn out to have been important in keeping everyone alive.

    The commons is like this. All the stupid little stuff matters. Picking up litter. Not walking on the grass. Crossing in zones. Good manners. Punishing vandals, miscreants, and the impulsive – all this stuff matters.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-20 06:22:00 UTC