Omfg. Is this real?
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-03 14:20:00 UTC
Omfg. Is this real?
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-03 14:20:00 UTC
I love London. But it makes me tired.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-03 13:14:00 UTC
(Pub, burger, fries, coca cola.)
Sigh… Perfect.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-03 09:56:00 UTC
http://www.calgaryherald.com/touch/opinion/columnists/Martinuk+Audit+reveals+many+First+Nations/10195873/story.html?relIndigenous people and corruption: that’s why.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-03 09:33:00 UTC
Sorry Apple.
iPhone 6 bad design.
You would be hard pressed to invent a phone easier to drop and break.
Bendable and droppable.
Good scam for requiring applecare insurance.
Got the screen size right. Good performance. But fragile.
Think I might rather have a galaxy 4 edge.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-03 08:47:00 UTC
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS A SUBSET OF “THE MORAL METHOD”
All processes of production are the same. We merely weight the outputs differently in value. Science values knowledge for its own sake (supposedly.) The scientific method ignores both real costs and opportunity costs. Technology doesn’t ignore them, because it is goal directed. The production of consumer goods, ignores places lower value on knowledge development and hides it rather than publishes it. But all that differs in any process of production (study of transformation) is which inputs we consider, and which outputs we prefer. PERIOD.
The scientific method is but one instance of THE METHOD. The method is the same, whether in craft, production, technology or science. You would not believe how hard I have tried to make this argument, and how hard critical rationalists try to deny it so that they can preserve a special place in their hearts.
Here is the mind blowing bit: The scientific method is written as a moral rule more than a logical one. The reason that scientists developed this moral rule in some detail before other fields, was because it was so much easier to lie, err, and fantasize about the production of hypotheses than it was to produce craft, production, or technology. Worse, (and this is what I work on) it is even harder to take the same moral prohibition and apply it to social science (economics, religion, morality, politics, law) because the incentives to lie, err, and fantasize, are even greater than those in science. My objective, in my work, is to apply the moral constraints we put in place upon science to defend us from lies, errors, and fantasies, to the social sciences, and the moral literature. And I expect that there will be a lot of resistance to following THE METHOD. Precisely because lying, useful error, and selling fantasies is so profitable.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-02 12:19:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhrGcRVohSk&google_comment_id=z124hdhzwreyfx15104ccdv5utuljnb4lv00k&google_view_type#gpluscommentsI LOVE STEPHEN HICKS. AND THIS IS WHY.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-02 11:56:00 UTC
PAINFUL REALIZATION: THE FAMILY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
I’ve been wrestling with this problem for a few days now. That is, that :
(a) While intuited morality corresponds to the atomicity of the family structure;
(b) AND therefore determines demand for the state (authority to resolve conflict, prevent conflict, or prevent retaliation);
(c) AND only the absolute nuclear family can EVOLVE individual property rights, and liberty,
(d) AND the absolute nuclear family, as normative and legal, is fragile, and subject to conquest by more familial, tribal, national, and religious organizations;
(e) AND absolute nuclear families facilitate easier movement of human resources to capital (rather than moving capital to resources);
That does not mean that:
(f) An aristocratic, familial and tribal society cannot adopt legal individual property rights, and institute formally in law, and therefore in norm, total suppression of criminal, unethical, immoral, and conspiratorial actions.
(g) And therefore eliminate the need for absolute nuclear and nuclear families, thereby returning to aristocratic families.
(h) Furthermore, that only it is only by violation of rights by the formal institution of immoral and conspiratorial actions, that aristocratic families (natural aristocracy over 3+ generations) are exterminated by competitors.
Therefore,
(i) It is possible to possess both aristocratic families, outlaw persecution of aristocratic families, (inheritance taxes, etc, income taxes for the purpose of redistribution), and individual high trust property rights.
(j) In fact, since violation of the family is a violation of moral and conspiratorial property rights, then of necessity, one cannot suppress the aristocratic families and yet preserve property rights.
THEREFORE
(k) The enlightenment era, particularly the cosmopolitan enlightenment (socialism, libertinism, and neo-conservatism) is a war on the exceptional families by the unexceptional families.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-02 11:54:00 UTC
GREAT: SOMONE JUST STOLE MY IPHONE (AND CARDS)
Went 40′ to get a coffee, and returned to my table and it was gone. Laptop, fine, iphone gone. Credit cards gone AGAIN for the second time in two weeks. Eastern europe is not safe enough for me. 🙂
Roman Skaskiw Don Finnegan Kirill Latysh
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-01 07:26:00 UTC
Video.
1) reading list
2) haidts moral foundations as property rights.
2) property and reproductive strategy
3) politics and reproductive strategy.
4) the limit if reason at human scsle.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-01 03:38:00 UTC