Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • (Can’t do pets. It’s sad. Love them. My body hates them. )

    (Can’t do pets. It’s sad. Love them. My body hates them. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-29 18:17:00 UTC

  • Kirill says to me” the secret to all business partnerships is giving your partne

    Kirill says to me” the secret to all business partnerships is giving your partners more.” Which I take as an ESL phrasing. Then he says that it’s about trust. And feeling you can say the truth.

    I think it’s that you try to make your partner happy and successful no matter what -even at your own expense . And you are confident that your parter will do the same.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-29 13:04:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere) (worth repeating) The problem is one of scale. Families operate

    (from elsewhere) (worth repeating)

    The problem is one of scale. Families operate on non monetary internal signals, but families still operate as an economy. That economy simply makes use of kin selection. But outside of the family it is nearly impossible to construct kin selection without an island or a northern european peninsula.

    ****You cannot break the Dunbar number without an information and incentive system to compensate for exceeding human cognitive ability****

    Cults rely on expensive rituals and verbal contrivance in order to attempt to construct some alternative kinship alliance. This is why only very eccentric cults with high costs of entry and ritual persist beyond the original founders.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-29 11:06:00 UTC

  • WHY THE NORDICS ARE ALTRUISTIC: KIN SELECTION. THE REASON IS THAT FINLAND, like

    WHY THE NORDICS ARE ALTRUISTIC: KIN SELECTION.

    THE REASON IS THAT FINLAND, like the nordics, is small F(5M people), homogenous, lutheran, population that is one of the least diverse, most outbred, and most docile, in the world, and like the English, Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes live on a virtual ISLAND. The dutch and the english occupy both sides of the english channel and are surrounded by kin. Germany is the only other european culture to preserve the island behavior at scale, with competing neighbors. THis is because germany had both north sea trade, and continental trade through the alps TO the north sea peoples. All other cultures that have achieved universalism have been island peoples or virtual island peoples who can make use of extending kin selection behavior (truth telling and altrusim) witohout funding competitors. Humans do not fund competitors. They compete with, wall off, fight or kill them. And if they don’t they will be exterminated. (and they all have been wherever they did not).

    Finland, norway, sweden, denmark, scotland and irland barely make a good sized american city each. If you broke the USA in to 5M person regions, with the ability to exclude people they dont want (parasites) then the vast majority of those areas would rapidly demonstrate thebehavior of 5M homogenous protestant peoples.

    YOU CANNOT CHANGE THIS: Kin selection is a genetic bias that all humans demonstrate. THe difficulty for all populations is that they must crush corruption, and small populations are better at crushing corruption. The smaller the population the easier it is to crush corruption.

    Parasitism (forced redistribution across non-kin) is universally intolerable, and corruption increases and factionalism increases if you try to do it.

    PERIOD. END OF STORY. YOU HAVE SMALL HOMOGENOUS PROTESTANT POLITIES PRACTICING THE ABSOLUTE NUCLEAR FAMILY OR YOU DO NOT HAVE LIBERTY

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-29 09:41:00 UTC

  • Nerd Humor Am I spending too much time at London Coffee House? Why do I ask? Eit

    Nerd Humor

    Am I spending too much time at London Coffee House? Why do I ask? Either the local router or the ISP has blocked my MAC address (unique id of a network interface on a network card), probably assuming that I’m a leech rather than just an awesome customer who LOVES London Coffee House? lol

    So I did what any proper nerd does: I spoofed my mac address and bingo. 😉

    Kirill and I are working out of the coffee shop on Oversing. I had a panic yesterday and now everyone is trying to give me behavioral tranquilizers. lol

    I love my guys.

    Кофейный дом “LONDON”

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-29 08:15:00 UTC

  • Answer by @curtdoolittle to Is there any society in the world that doesn’t have

    Answer by @curtdoolittle to Is there any society in the world that doesn’t have the concept of private property? http://qr.ae/D40Ot

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-29 07:38:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/527363901957353473

  • APPLE IS LIKE A COP ON A STING OPERATION Really. I don’t NEED another Mac. I hav

    APPLE IS LIKE A COP ON A STING OPERATION

    Really. I don’t NEED another Mac. I have FIVE (13″ air, 15″ pro, 15″pro retina, 17″ pro, Mini, plus two Mac Pro servers, an ipad and an iphone)

    It’s like I’m a drug addict and they keep offering crack at a discount to good customers.

    Sigh. But a 27″ 5K display … is just… well, its just like good dark chocolate, coffee, a bear rug and a fire…. I an’t resist.

    (Yes, I have a bear rug. And no I don’t share.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-29 06:10:00 UTC

  • Horton sends this pointer

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/american-machiavelli/Vincent Horton sends this pointer

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-29 01:43:00 UTC

  • HOBBIES? (More bangs for the buck?) Have you ever considered ex-wife collecting?

    HOBBIES?

    (More bangs for the buck?)

    Have you ever considered ex-wife collecting? It’s an interesting hobby of mine.

    I found it was much cheaper to collect ex-girlfriends and ex-fiancées than ex wives, but collecting is still a great hobby either way.

    In retrospect I highly recommend collecting ex-lovers, ex-girlfriends and ex- fiancées and forgoing ex-wife collecting.

    More bangs for the buck so to speak.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 22:02:00 UTC

  • Advertising is basically gambling. In the long run, the house (the media) always

    Advertising is basically gambling. In the long run, the house (the media) always wins. But if you don’t play then you can’t get a big win. And companies gamble because big wins pay off.

    Social is an interesting form of gambling. You’re selling the hope of something, and you only have to return as much of the users’s bets in the form of wins, to keep him spending in the hope that he MIGHT get a big win.

    The more tangible the thing you’re selling the more open to discrimination (testing) it is.

    So, if you can sell gambling, it’s better then, say, selling status-symbols like Ferraris and gucci bags and Loubouton shoes. Where you pay for artificial scarcity. And selling signals is better than selling non-status-luxuries, and selling non-status-luxuries is better than selling necessities, and selling necessities is better than selling things you don’t really want (second rate insurance, or a new religion).

    The western ethic though, is to compete on quality.

    Interesting.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 21:58:00 UTC