Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • ON WRITING CODE : I don’t have to convince code. It does what I tell it. People

    ON WRITING CODE : I don’t have to convince code. It does what I tell it. People on the other hand require convincing. And I dont feel like doing so much convincing right now. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-07 12:55:00 UTC

  • PROBLEM The American Austrian school (The Rothbardian MIsesians) are motivated p

    http://www.professorfekete.com/articles/AEFATaleOfTwoSchools.pdfONE PROBLEM

    The American Austrian school (The Rothbardian MIsesians) are motivated primarily by political rather than economic interests. Their leadership, in particular, that of Rockwell and the MI, adopted the Marxist ideological strategy of the community organizers on one hand, and public intellectuals on the other.

    And that strategy has proven eminently successful – nearly taking over the term ‘libertarian’ as ‘liberal’ was taken over by the left. So the American Austrians should be appreciated in the context of their ambitions and achievements. Intolerance is necessary for including people in an ideological identity. Politics is emotional by its nature, and ideology is more effective at inciting political action than is reasoned argument. So with their strategy, the Rothbardian Misesians of the American Austrian school have altered the political landscape – for the benefit of all libertarians.

    They have been so successful at introducing anarchic thinking that the rest of the libertarian movement has adopted their methods. And as of last year, have begun openly fighting for their identity against the Rothbardians.

    It is probably a better strategy to criticize the intellectual problems in their message while complimenting the ideological success. By doing so we do not violate their principle of purity, which we see as intolerance.

    (FB Note: Shared so that I don’t lose this comment)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-06 13:05:00 UTC

  • PRIVATELY RUN CITIES IN HONDURAS The Hoppeian government made real?

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_HONDURAS_PRIVATE_CITIES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-05-22-36-19THREE PRIVATELY RUN CITIES IN HONDURAS

    The Hoppeian government made real?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-06 12:50:00 UTC

  • HAD A WHOLE GLASS OF WINE! No serious allergic reaction. Just a twinge. No hango

    HAD A WHOLE GLASS OF WINE!

    No serious allergic reaction. Just a twinge.

    No hangover effect.

    Slept like a baby, after being awake for 41 hours.

    Looks like gall bladder was the culprit.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-06 12:35:00 UTC

  • People need institutions both formal and informal to help them cooperate despite

    People need institutions both formal and informal to help them cooperate despite their different feelings and objectives. instead we try to argue with one another in order to make each other agree independently of those institutions. As if any of us actually listens to or comprehends the other.

    Our institutions were designed to establish priorities among males who had extremely similar interests.

    But today we have clearly divergent interests. If only because of gender and family structure preferences. And our differences are magnified by the technology that has made us prosperous, the addition of feminine majority, and group diversity.

    If you diversify a population without altering its informal and formal institutions to allow for more complex cooperation – not upon ends but upon means – you will have institutional failure. The purpose of government is to help us cooperate despite our differences. The idea that we seek some form of truth in government is both an artifact of our prior homogeneity, the absurd bias of our democratic religion, and our belief in controlled choice rather than experimental cooperation.

    The market instead allows us to collaborate on means even though we might pursue different ends. Government as it is currently structured by contrast requires that we have similar ends or the fantasy that we can persuade one another to possess similar ends.

    When in fact it is both impossible for us to know what those similar ends should be, and given our various conflicting strategies about life in general, it is impossible for us to come to consensus on those ends. Or even understand all but a few of them.

    We are prisoners of a set of institutions that have failed us and that cannot help us cooperate in our current state.

    In most civilizations people abandon attempts at improving the government. That is the course we are on.

    Having our civic culture handed to administrative government accelerated that decline as well as our divergence. Cowering in our little spatial boxes we rail at one another about how to think and feel rather than architect institutions that would help us to cooperate on means even if we desire a multitude of ends. And that multitude of experimentation would lead to discovery of solutions none of us is wise enough to conceive on our own.

    Our vanity and hubris brought us here. Why is it that we think the next vanity of our intentions will be an exception to the rule?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-01 23:06:00 UTC

  • So that’s who Yogini is! Hi Sophie. 🙂 -Curt

    So that’s who Yogini is! Hi Sophie. 🙂

    -Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-01 05:51:00 UTC

  • CODE A THON 🙂 Almost finished navigation, roles, permissions and security. Need

    CODE A THON 🙂

    Almost finished navigation, roles, permissions and security. Needs another hour or two. That’s almost 21 hours but I think I need to sleep soon.

    When I used to ski, I’d leave the hill the first time I fell down. It meant that I was tired. Coding is the same. When you start injecting bugs into your code it’s time to sleep. Writing is different. You just keep at it.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-01 05:47:00 UTC

  • SMELLING the more that my sense of smell returns the more horrified I am at just

    SMELLING

    the more that my sense of smell returns the more horrified I am at just how much of the world simply smells bad.

    I hope I adjust. I can only guess how awful it must be for pregnant women whose senses are exaggerated.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-01 04:21:00 UTC

  • 18 HOURS LATER: STILL WRITING CODE AT MIDNIGHT On a leather couch, by a fireplac

    18 HOURS LATER: STILL WRITING CODE AT MIDNIGHT

    On a leather couch, by a fireplace, outside a restaurant and bar.

    Ears full of Staind, Breaking Benjamin, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Evanessence, Katatonia, 12 Stones. The occasional Alice in Chains, Nirvana and Nickelback.

    Heaven for a nerd: a tricky business problem, a laptop, good music, the white noise of happy chatter, and access to food. Absolutely priceless.

    Offices are a curse. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-01 03:10:00 UTC

  • MEN AND WOMEN HAVE DIFFERENT REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY SOLV

    MEN AND WOMEN HAVE DIFFERENT REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY SOLVED THAT CONFLICT UNDER AGRARIANISM

    But we are seeing, especially in the lower classes, the degeneration of the nuclear family. As a consequence we are seeing polarity in the democratic political systems. Systems that were designed for nuclear families under the property rights system of agrarian production.

    There would never have been a progressive president without the female vote. All we are seeing in politics is the conflicting moral codes which are distributed disproportionately between the genders expressed as divisiveness. While we thing of this as a way of life, or a vision of the future, and to some degree it is, what the statistics show is that it’s little more than who is married or unmarried to whom at what age.

    The other thing it shows is that males are checking out of society as fast as single mothers are becoming politically active. Males will be the minority voters for the foreseeable future.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-01 01:29:00 UTC