PHILOSOPHICAL TRIVIA: ETYMOLOGY OF “TRUTH”
Proto Indo European *dru- “tree,”
Meaning: “As steadfast as an oak”.
Truth is testimony of correspondence with reality.
Nothing can be ‘true’ independent of an assertion that something is true. Statements or theories can correspond to reality. But reality can’t correspond to itself. A thing is not true in itself. That’s not logical.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-08 00:53:00 UTC
WHEELS IN THE RAIN
Why is it that riding in the rain is so awesome. Its 60f. Its raining. Its in urban streets. And it rocks.
Thats what Freedom feels like.
😉
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-07 12:46:00 UTC
THE SOURCE OF PROPERTY: THE NECESSITY, VIRTUE AND MORALITY OF ORGANIZED VIOLENCE I (we) may not be able to coerce you into accepting freedom – individual monopoly of control over property obtained by voluntary exchange production or homesteading – as a superior form of cooperation to all other forms of cooperation. But you may not coerce me (us) into abandoning freedom as our preferred, committed, required, demanded and threatened form of cooperation. THE SOURCE OF PROPERTY IS VIOLENCE The source of property is the use of violence to create, obtain, and protect it. Only those who performed militial service created private property. Only those who performed militial service obtained private property. Only those who perform militial service will keep private property. A militia is a voluntary alliance of property owners whose common interest is the preservation of private property rights. A militia is not the same as an army, any more than freedom is the same as liberty. You create freedom by using violence. You request or desire liberty from someone else. The purpose of a libertarian government is to create private property through the organized application of violence to create it. And libertarian pacifists and moralists are in fact the reason we are losing it. VIOLENCE IS A VIRTUE. Violence is a virtue not a vice. If all rights are property rights. If property defines morality, then violence to create property is the first moral action upon which all other morality rests. We should encourage the mastery of violence in all men at all times, and the exercise of violence by all men at all times, in the defense of property rights, the highest form of morality that a man can display. Because by acts of violence to preserve property he pays the highest contribution to morality possible. Defense of property does not require words. It requires actions. FREEDOM IS SYNONYMOUS WITH MILITIA The only free people are, and must be, a people whose government is a militia, and whose resolution of disputes over property is decided by judges using the single rule of private property as their criteria for adjudication. A militia is synonymous with enfranchisement. No one else has paid for his or her right of property. They merely free ride on the expenses of others. Therefore, political democracy is synonymous with militial participation. No other meaning is possible. All other attributions are acts of theft by fraud. Militial participation requires no more than the personal use of violence to protect property rights. The use of the militia is to create and preserve property rights. The use of judges is to resolve conflicts without violence. The use of democratic government is not to create laws, but to create physical commons. The use of public intellectuals, is to carry on the public debate over which commons we may choose to invest in, and which not. The use of ‘religion’ and literature is to teach us these necessary and immutable laws of human cooperation so that we never forget them – and by forgetting them lose our freedom. You cannot obtain the right of private property at a discount. It is an extremely costly right to possess. It is an extremely costly right to maintain. Those who attempt to gain freedom – property – at a discount, will obtain an inferior product to those who pay for a better one. And the only currency of freedom -property – is violence. Be armed. Be willing. Be vigilant. And Act. —– Curt Doolittle Kiev, 2013 “Putting violence back into liberty one sentence at a time.”
THE SOURCE OF PROPERTY: THE NECESSITY, VIRTUE AND MORALITY OF ORGANIZED VIOLENCE I (we) may not be able to coerce you into accepting freedom – individual monopoly of control over property obtained by voluntary exchange production or homesteading – as a superior form of cooperation to all other forms of cooperation. But you may not coerce me (us) into abandoning freedom as our preferred, committed, required, demanded and threatened form of cooperation. THE SOURCE OF PROPERTY IS VIOLENCE The source of property is the use of violence to create, obtain, and protect it. Only those who performed militial service created private property. Only those who performed militial service obtained private property. Only those who perform militial service will keep private property. A militia is a voluntary alliance of property owners whose common interest is the preservation of private property rights. A militia is not the same as an army, any more than freedom is the same as liberty. You create freedom by using violence. You request or desire liberty from someone else. The purpose of a libertarian government is to create private property through the organized application of violence to create it. And libertarian pacifists and moralists are in fact the reason we are losing it. VIOLENCE IS A VIRTUE. Violence is a virtue not a vice. If all rights are property rights. If property defines morality, then violence to create property is the first moral action upon which all other morality rests. We should encourage the mastery of violence in all men at all times, and the exercise of violence by all men at all times, in the defense of property rights, the highest form of morality that a man can display. Because by acts of violence to preserve property he pays the highest contribution to morality possible. Defense of property does not require words. It requires actions. FREEDOM IS SYNONYMOUS WITH MILITIA The only free people are, and must be, a people whose government is a militia, and whose resolution of disputes over property is decided by judges using the single rule of private property as their criteria for adjudication. A militia is synonymous with enfranchisement. No one else has paid for his or her right of property. They merely free ride on the expenses of others. Therefore, political democracy is synonymous with militial participation. No other meaning is possible. All other attributions are acts of theft by fraud. Militial participation requires no more than the personal use of violence to protect property rights. The use of the militia is to create and preserve property rights. The use of judges is to resolve conflicts without violence. The use of democratic government is not to create laws, but to create physical commons. The use of public intellectuals, is to carry on the public debate over which commons we may choose to invest in, and which not. The use of ‘religion’ and literature is to teach us these necessary and immutable laws of human cooperation so that we never forget them – and by forgetting them lose our freedom. You cannot obtain the right of private property at a discount. It is an extremely costly right to possess. It is an extremely costly right to maintain. Those who attempt to gain freedom – property – at a discount, will obtain an inferior product to those who pay for a better one. And the only currency of freedom -property – is violence. Be armed. Be willing. Be vigilant. And Act. —– Curt Doolittle Kiev, 2013 “Putting violence back into liberty one sentence at a time.”
THE SOURCE OF PROPERTY: THE NECESSITY, VIRTUE AND MORALITY OF ORGANIZED VIOLENCE
I (we) may not be able to coerce you into accepting freedom – individual monopoly on property – as a superior form of cooperation to all other forms of cooperation. But you man not coerce me (us) into abandoning freedom as our preferred, committed, required, demanded and threatened form of cooperation.
The source of property is the use of violence to protect it.
Only those who performed militial service created private property.
Only those who performed militial service obtained private property.
Only those who perform militial service will keep private property.
A militia is a voluntary alliance of property owners whose common interest is the preservation of private property rights. A militia is not the same as an army, any more than freedom is the same as liberty. You create freedom by using violence. You request or desire liberty from someone else.
The purpose of a libertarian government is to create private property through the organized application of violence to create it. And libertarian pacifists and moralists are in fact the reason we are losing it.
You cannot obtain the right of private property at a discount. It is an extremely costly right to possess. It is an extremely costly right to maintain.
VIOLENCE IS A VIRTUE. Violence is a virtue not a vice. If all rights are property rights. If property defines morality, then violence to create property is the first moral action upon which all other morality rests.
We should encourage the mastery of violence in all men at all times, and the exercise of violence by all men at all times, in the defense of property rights, the highest form of morality that a man can display.
Because by acts of violence to preserve property he pays the highest contribution to morality possible.
Defense of property does not require words. I requires actions.
The only free people is and must be a people whose government is a militia, and whose resolution of disputes over property is decided by judges using the single rule of private property as their criteria for adjudication.
The use of the militia is to create property rights. The use of judges is to resolve conflicts without violence. The use of government is not to create laws, but to create physical commons. The use of public intellectuals, is to carry on the public debate over which commons we may choose to invest in, and which not. The use of ‘religion’ and literature is to teach us these necessary and immutable laws of human cooperation so that we never forget them – and by forgetting them lose our freedom.
Those who attempt to gain freedom – property – at a discount, will obtain an inferior product to those who pay for a better one. And the only currency of freedom -property – is violence.
—–
Curt Doolittle
Kiev, 2013
“Putting violence back into liberty one sentence at a time.”
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-07 05:34:00 UTC
ONE MORE PASS AT MISES
I have to re-read mises again. It’s very dense work. But on one topic in particular: his emphasis on apriorism.
Because, for some reason I didn’t really understand (habit? Immaturity of scientific Philosophy?) Mises attempted to use logic to defend praxeology.
But he was wrong. Praxeology is a scientific not logical question. You cannot deduce much from human action. However, you can TEST any statement of incentives a priori. Because we are marginally indifferent from one another.
Took me a long time to get my arms around all of this.
And Hans Hoppe’s (brief) advice to me had a dramatic influence on how I argued these positions. But it was the advice I needed.
I learned pretty much everything from Hoppe worth learning. In the sense, that the few insights that I have had are purely dependent upon the insights he gave us.
I just am very lucky that we’ve got a generation between us, so that I can draw on science, and the demonstrated failure of socialism, rather than draw on philosophy and logic and the as-yet-undemonstrated failure of socialism, and the as-yet-scientific validation of the classical liberal, aristocratic, vision of man.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-06 06:55:00 UTC
IF IT’S THAT INEFFECTIVE, THEN WHY DO WE BET THE ECONOMY, AND OUR CIVILIZATION ON IT?
(I’m not anti-math. I’m anti platonism. Which includes representing what corresponds to reality by necessity with that which correlates with reality. In particular the relationship between our economic data and the monopoly of the west on technology, while discovering a new continent.)
“Abbott explains that effective mathematics provides compact, idealized representations of the inherently noisy physical world.”
“Analytical mathematical expressions are a way making compact descriptions of our observations,” he told Phys.org. “As humans, we search for this ‘compression’ that math gives us because we have limited brain power. Maths is effective when it delivers simple, compact expressions that we can apply with regularity to many situations. It is ineffective when it fails to deliver that elegant compactness. It is that compactness that makes it useful/practical … if we can get that compression without sacrificing too much precision.
“I argue that there are many more cases where math is ineffective (non-compact) than when it is effective (compact). Math only has the illusion of being effective when we focus on the successful examples. But our successful examples perhaps only apply to a tiny portion of all the possible questions we could ask about the universe.”
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-09-mathematics-effective-world.html#jCp
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 16:43:00 UTC
http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/printCHOICE WORDS ON PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (From Rodrigo)
[quote on]
1. The product is only as good as the plan for the product.
2. The best teamwork is a healthy rivalry.
3. The database is the software base.
4. Don’t just fix the mistakes — fix whatever permitted the mistake in the first place.
[quote off]
I was telling the guys yesterday that their rivalry was a good thing. Denis is always fighting for user simplicity, and Kyrill is always fighting for shipping the product and rich feature functionality devoid of ‘hacks’. Dennis is intuitive and impluslive and throws ideas out quickly to see if they stick. Kyrill is a physicist and engineer, and he thinks every idea through all the possible steps. I said “you know, I couldn’t go out and hire for this if I wanted to. THis is the most awesome value to the business I could ask for.”
Of course, it doesn’t help that they’re arguing furiously over some bit of nuance while Vitaly, Alexey and I shake our heads, look for the waitress, and try to get a refill of our coffee. 🙂
It’s freaking priceless. Really.
Now, a second thing that I find no one agrees with me on any longer, and I say that ‘the database is the application’. I love my diagrams. I use pretty colors. I model them in detail. And for me, the ERD is how I capture the requirements. The UI is open to constant revision. It is art. It is psychology. But a database is a bit of math that represents a business problem in the form of the relational calculus.
Databases correspond to reality. Databases turn me on. Every kind. Doesn’t matter. Faster, richer, all the better. Don’t like code other than triggers back there.
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Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 14:49:00 UTC
http://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.htmlTHE PSYCHOLOGICAL PRICE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
“No one said building a company was easy. But it’s time to be honest about how brutal it really is–and the price so many founders secretly pay”
Secretly hell.
I tell everyone, pretty openly, that the difference between entrepreneurs and everyone else is little more than work capacity and pain tolerance – and not much else.
The average person cannot imagine how hard it is on your mind and body. Because they literally cannot imaging working that hard, bearing that must risk and surviving that much stress.
And then the government wants to tax you MORE and the american people want to call you EVIL and SELFISH, when, and if, as is rare, you capitalize on years of work, sacrifice and suffering.
You wonder why the republicans own small and medium business?
‘Cause they know, appreciate, and respect it.
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 14:07:00 UTC
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 11:49:00 UTC