Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • ALL ABOUT MONEY: WHAT IS MONEY, GOOD MONEY, TOLERABLE MONEY, BAD MONEY, AND WHAT

    ALL ABOUT MONEY: WHAT IS MONEY, GOOD MONEY, TOLERABLE MONEY, BAD MONEY, AND WHAT IS NOT MONEY.

    (DRAFT: it’s getting too late to finish, and I’ve been sick for the past few days, so Ill finish this – as promised – later or tomorrow)

    The main functions of money are distinguished as:

    – A Store of Time.

    … If I could educate people on just one idea, it would bet that our only existential commodity is time, and we are no wealthier than cave men, but through a continuously expanding division of labor due to property, money, prices, and contract, we produce more per moment of working life than ever before. So we are not wealthier than in the past, we have merley made everything vastly cheaper.

    Hard money is the result of saved time. Credit money is the result of anticipated savings of time. Fiat money is the result of gambling that in the aggregate will will save time.

    And so credit, and fiat money are only so valuable as there is opportunity to save time. This single idea is the basis of all of economics. Yet it is virtually unknown, and ever more rarely understood.

    – A Store of Value (Purchasing power) – with stability of value (Purchasing power) within dependent production cycles.

    – A Medium of Exchange – thereby satisfying the problem of “coincidence of wants”, and increasing the velocity of trade, by decreasing the friction (cost) of finding opportunities for trade, and performing that trade. Mediums of exchange save time.

    – A Source of Liquidity – A commodity of continuous demand.

    ( … )

    – A Provisioner of Prices.

    ( … )

    – A Unit of Account;

    ( … )

    – A Standard of Deferred Payment – debt, credit, interest,

    ( … )

    – A Scope of Utility – “Range” – A commodity of demand sufficient for imputation for production cycles

    ( … )

    To fulfill those functions, money must possess the following properties:

    – Cognizable: its value must be easily identified.

    …. Stamping ‘coins’ serves as a ‘trademark’.

    …. Protecting that trademark serves to protect its value

    …. Trademarking is … increasingly inordinately expensive.

    ( … )

    – Unitary (‘countable’) by object, weight, volume – (and now index.)

    ( … )

    – Fungible: its individual units must be capable of mutual substitution (i.e., interchangeability).

    ( … )

    – Durable: able to withstand repeated use.

    ( … )

    – Portable: easily carried and transported in relation to their purchasing power.

    ( … )

    MONEY AND IT’S SUBSTITUTES (DEPENDENCIES)

    ( … )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-20 20:29:00 UTC

  • All About Money: What Is Money, Good Money, Tolerable Money, Bad Money, And What Is Not Money.

    (DRAFT: it’s getting too late to finish, and I’ve been sick for the past few days, so Ill finish this – as promised – later or tomorrow) The main functions of money are distinguished as: – A Store of Time. … If I could educate people on just one idea, it would bet that our only existential commodity is time, and we are no wealthier than cave men, but through a continuously expanding division of labor due to property, money, prices, and contract, we produce more per moment of working life than ever before. So we are not wealthier than in the past, we have merley made everything vastly cheaper. Hard money is the result of saved time. Credit money is the result of anticipated savings of time. Fiat money is the result of gambling that in the aggregate will will save time. And so credit, and fiat money are only so valuable as there is opportunity to save time. This single idea is the basis of all of economics. Yet it is virtually unknown, and ever more rarely understood. – A Store of Value (Purchasing power) – with stability of value (Purchasing power) within dependent production cycles. – A Medium of Exchange – thereby satisfying the problem of “coincidence of wants”, and increasing the velocity of trade, by decreasing the friction (cost) of finding opportunities for trade, and performing that trade. Mediums of exchange save time. – A Source of Liquidity – A commodity of continuous demand. ( … ) – A Provisioner of Prices. ( … ) – A Unit of Account; ( … ) – A Standard of Deferred Payment – debt, credit, interest, ( … ) – A Scope of Utility – “Range” – A commodity of demand sufficient for imputation for production cycles ( … ) To fulfill those functions, money must possess the following properties: – Cognizable: its value must be easily identified. …. Stamping ‘coins’ serves as a ‘trademark’. …. Protecting that trademark serves to protect its value …. Trademarking is … increasingly inordinately expensive. ( … ) – Unitary (‘countable’) by object, weight, volume – (and now index.) ( … ) – Fungible: its individual units must be capable of mutual substitution (i.e., interchangeability). ( … ) – Durable: able to withstand repeated use. ( … ) – Portable: easily carried and transported in relation to their purchasing power. ( … ) MONEY AND IT’S SUBSTITUTES (DEPENDENCIES) ( … )

  • All About Money: What Is Money, Good Money, Tolerable Money, Bad Money, And What Is Not Money.

    (DRAFT: it’s getting too late to finish, and I’ve been sick for the past few days, so Ill finish this – as promised – later or tomorrow) The main functions of money are distinguished as: – A Store of Time. … If I could educate people on just one idea, it would bet that our only existential commodity is time, and we are no wealthier than cave men, but through a continuously expanding division of labor due to property, money, prices, and contract, we produce more per moment of working life than ever before. So we are not wealthier than in the past, we have merley made everything vastly cheaper. Hard money is the result of saved time. Credit money is the result of anticipated savings of time. Fiat money is the result of gambling that in the aggregate will will save time. And so credit, and fiat money are only so valuable as there is opportunity to save time. This single idea is the basis of all of economics. Yet it is virtually unknown, and ever more rarely understood. – A Store of Value (Purchasing power) – with stability of value (Purchasing power) within dependent production cycles. – A Medium of Exchange – thereby satisfying the problem of “coincidence of wants”, and increasing the velocity of trade, by decreasing the friction (cost) of finding opportunities for trade, and performing that trade. Mediums of exchange save time. – A Source of Liquidity – A commodity of continuous demand. ( … ) – A Provisioner of Prices. ( … ) – A Unit of Account; ( … ) – A Standard of Deferred Payment – debt, credit, interest, ( … ) – A Scope of Utility – “Range” – A commodity of demand sufficient for imputation for production cycles ( … ) To fulfill those functions, money must possess the following properties: – Cognizable: its value must be easily identified. …. Stamping ‘coins’ serves as a ‘trademark’. …. Protecting that trademark serves to protect its value …. Trademarking is … increasingly inordinately expensive. ( … ) – Unitary (‘countable’) by object, weight, volume – (and now index.) ( … ) – Fungible: its individual units must be capable of mutual substitution (i.e., interchangeability). ( … ) – Durable: able to withstand repeated use. ( … ) – Portable: easily carried and transported in relation to their purchasing power. ( … ) MONEY AND IT’S SUBSTITUTES (DEPENDENCIES) ( … )

  • What Do You Learn When Majoring In Political Economy?

    Formal Institutions matter a lot. In particular, the production of legislation and regulation matter a lot. Informal Institutions matter a lot. Particularly religions (mostly bad if not universally bad), Trust in one another to adhere to promises, Marriage age, marriage with inbreeding, and inheritance structures. Sizes of the different Classes matter a lot. The general problem for any people is creating a non-parasitic middle class out of any available underutilized human capital. Demographics matter a lot. As uncomfortable as it is, class structures are genetic in origin, and the more people you have below 100 (the lower your average IQ) the more difficult it will be to produce. Resources are generally a curse, not a benefit. The central problem is corruption, and only northern europeans have managed to eliminate it – and it looks like elsewhere it’s impossible.

    What you won’t learn is that (a) democracy has largely been a catastrophe. (b) the european constitutional monarchies were probably the best governments ever invented. (c) modern governments are luxuries of the low hanging fruit of industrial revolution and petroleum, and will end within the next lifetime or two. (d) modern macro economics consists largely of ‘how much can we deceive people so that they keep spending money they don’t have and can’t recover’.

    Yeah. It’s really like that.

    Cheers.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-learn-when-majoring-in-political-economy

  • Q: “WHAT DOES THE RIGHT WING THINK OF ANARCHO CAPITALISM?” The Anarcho Capitalis

    Q: “WHAT DOES THE RIGHT WING THINK OF ANARCHO CAPITALISM?” The Anarcho Capitalist Research Program (Mises -> Rothbard -> Rothbardians -> Hoppe, and arguably, myself) was interesting in that we completed the Locke/Smith/Hume/Adams/Jefferson attempt to reduce all social science to a single language of property rights, and therefore to natural law (the natural law of reciprocity). This reduction of human behavior to a common, empirical language of perfect commensurability and decidability allowed us to produce a formal logic of cooperation (ethics and politics). And in retrospect it’s fairly obvious that the only empirical social science has always been Tort (common law of property), and economics is merely an extension of Tort law to the measurement of externalities, and scale. So, the AC program completed the Anglo Enlightenment, The Roman-Stoic Research Program, and The Aristotelian Enlightenment. Or I would argue, it completed the western philosophical program of Sovereignty by Reciprocity, to which the only answer is rule of law under the natural law of reciprocity, which of necessity produces markets in everything – from association to rule. However, the difference between Anarcho Capitalist and Western Upper class Sovereignty, Middle Class Liberty, and Working Class Freedom programs is expressible as the limit to reciprocity. In Anarcho capitalism that reciprocity was inherited from the needs of diasporic pastoralists (middle easterners), and not from landed agrarians (westerners). Pastoralists respect only private property and do not invest in the commons. Whereas landed people respect all investments of all kinds, regardless of their means of production, and compete by the production of commons (hence why old europe is a vast open air museum). So while the western Sovereign model of total prohibition on any imposition of costs of any kind, against investments of any kind – at least those that would produce an incentive for retaliation and therefore ‘disharmony’ – can produce a prosperous high trust western civilization with multipliers using the production of commons of all kinds, the middle eastern (Semitic) model of limited prohibition on the imposition of costs against physical property and total avoidance of payment for commons, and maximization of parasitism upon those commons, cannot produce a polity that can survive competition for territory, population, and trade. So in that sense, the anarcho capitalist program succeeded in producing a formal logic of cooperation (ethics, law, and politics) but it failed to define the minimum criteria for the production of a survivable polity. It’s profoundly ironic that a philosophical system placing highest emphasis on the market, and that would create the formal logic of cooperation, would itself, not question whether a polity constructed under that system of thought, using a pastoralist scope of ethics, would survive in the market for polities, (none has, nor can). And worse, that one expressing the empirical findings of law over millennia would be argued in Rousseau’s vision of man (Roussea/ Kant/ Postmodernists), Kant’s Rationalism (Kant / Marx / Postmodernists), and Jewish diasporic Ethics (Mises/Rothbard/Popper) – instead of Anglo vision of man (Rational), Anglo empiricism(Scientific), Anglo ethics(Reciprocal). Sovereignty, Liberty, Freedom, and Subsidy(insurance) are possible only under the total, incremental, suppression of parasitism – the total prohibition on imposition of costs upon the investments of others, of all kinds. And there is no other means of doing so than the common law of reciprocity, we know as tort, extended to the insurance of restitution and punishment for all impositions of costs upon all investments of others. So, I have moved quite firmly ‘to the right’ in the sense that the “Right” refers to the group evolutionary strategy we call “Aristocracy”, and aristocracy to the production of Sovereignty, Liberty, Freedom, and Subsidy, through the organized use of violence to impose incremental suppression of all forms of parasitism (cost impositions), through the competition we call ‘debate’ in the form we call ‘jury’ using the means of decidability we call ‘reciprocity’ and the empirical measurement of the imposition of costs against any and all investment in converted opportunities: “property”. And I have moved to the right because there is no logical or empirical means of doing otherwise, yet carrying the pretense of one’s ethics as ‘moral’. Cheers

  • Are Middle Eastern People Caucasian? If So, Why Are They Perceived As Not Being White In America?

    No. Middle easterners are from a different genetic group, and have assimilated Europeans – exterminating them from the Bosphorus to India.

    Look at genes. (See lists below) Middle Easterner’s are of West Asian origins (anatolian, semitic, persian). And while the west asian branch of caucasians has reached across more of the world than europeans (until the 1400’s) Arabs appear to originate from Ethiopian/Arabian crossing (an early trade location) and are a mixture of african and west asian. This is largely because west asians (black haired swarthier) had different agrarian, pastoral needs, and much greater outgroup competition (middle east is the intersection of four continents, and nearly all the racial, sub racial, and tribal groups – hence the obvious tribalism still present in the demographics – particularly among ‘The Evil 80’s’ which the warmer climates have not been able to eliminate.

    Caucasian is the wrong term. Principally because ‘Whites’ are not of west asian origins, nor from the caucuses, but from the north and west of the black sea, while west asians have darker coloring, more cartilage, different cephalic indexes, and higher impulsivity (which I prefer to state as ‘more emotional’).

    Indo european expansion was successful across the eurasian plain, and down into west asia. However, *all those peoples were assimilated and are gone*. This is because the ‘uniqueness’ of westerners cannot survive competition with outsiders any more than east asians (Han, Korean, Japanese) can. East asians have succeeded at greater neoteny than even europeans – but from an earlier fork in the homo sapiens sapiens expansion.

    West indo europeans appear to have ‘matured’ in poland and ukraine, and then expanded eastward displacing their west asian competitors. and we can see patterns of radiation of genes in europe consisting of at least three waves a) early neolithic, agrarian, and horse-riding. The last wave (R1a-germanic-slavic) divides the prior two (I1/I2-Nordic,Southern, and R1b/Atlantic) very clearly along the european plain (where horses and cattle can be easily fed).

    We have learned a lot in the past thirty years, and it mirrors pre-war thought. Post-war this line of thought has been prosecuted – especially since 1960s and the introduction of Postmodernism from the French (once Marxism’s class warfare had failed, the marxists adopted identity warfare.)

    TRAITS: MOST GROUP DIFFERENCES ARE EXPRESSIONS OF SUCCESS OR FAILURE AT NEOTONIC SELECTION GIVEN THE PRESSURES OF WARM CLIMATES.

    “Europeans” share continuous, and difficult-to-evolve traits that west asians do not.
    a) lower testosterone levels (and lower impulsivity)
    b) greater neoteny (slower sexual maturity)
    c) greater pedomorphism (retention of aquiline/childhood traits)
    d) lighter coloring (skin and hair – less ‘swarthy’)
    e) greater cephalic index (probably due to greater neoteny)
    (f) lower ‘clannishness’ from birth. (really. from the day they’re born.)
    (g) (I am not sure about this yet) Possibly higher rates of sociopathy (purely rational actors, and free of governing impulse). There is too much overlap in the (scarce and questionable) literature to separate biological sociopathy (lack of empathy) which is evident in brain structure, and various anti-social behaviors. In whites, the autism spectrum appears more common, and without comorbidity, whereas in non-whites it appears comorbid with other (birth) mental defects. This could be caused by nothing other than northern european whites have been exceptionally successful not only at neoteny, but at ‘ridding the population’ of the underclass through winters, starvation, manorialism, disease, war – and extremely aggressive hanging for over 1000 years. So I suspect that these statistics are merley demographic (class), and that the positive results of class (lower emotionality and impulse, higher influence of reason) just express themselves to a higher degree in whites (sociopathy, non-comorbid autism, lower testosterone, more aquiline features).

    GENETIC AND CULTURAL GROUPS (RACES, SUBRACES, TRIBES) COMPARING EUROPEAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN

    1)EUROPEANS (‘UKRAINIANS’) (NORTH BRANCH) (
    ……..FINN/UGRIC/URALIC (N)
    ……..SCANDINAVIAN (I1)
    ……..SLAVIC (R1a)
    ……..GERMANIC (R1b)
    ……..ATLANTIC (CELTIC)(R1b)
    ……..BASQUE (R1b+)
    ……..SOUTHERN EUROPEANS ( I2 ‘proto-europeans’)
    …………….Sardinians
    …………….Moldovans,
    …………….Romanians,
    …………….Bulgarians,
    …………….Serbians,
    …………….Bosnians,
    …………….Croatians

    2) IRANIANS (SOUTH BRANCH)
    ……..IRANIAN
    …………….Armenians(R1b/J2)
    …………….Jews (E1/J)
    …………….Greeks and Southern Italians (I2)
    …………….Kurds
    …………….Iranians (J2)
    …………….Jordanians
    …………….Iraqis
    …………….Assyrians
    …………….Druze
    …………….Lebanese
    …………….Georgians
    …………….Caspians
    …………….Palestinians
    ……TURKIC (Displaced from China)
    …………….Turks
    ……TAJIK
    …………….Tajik
    …………….Bukhara Arab
    …………….Shugnan
    …………….Kallar
    …………….Sourashtran
    …………….Yadhava

    ……IRANIAN AFRICAN (ARAB / SEMITIC) (J1)
    …………….Kuwaiti*
    …………….Arabian (Saudi – Yemeni – Bedouin)*
    …………….Egyptian
    ……IRANIAN NORTH AFRICAN
    …………….North African Race (Moroccan – Libyan – Tunisian – Canarian)
    …………….Berber Race*** (Berber)
    …………….Algerian Race (Algerian)

    3) INDO IRANIAN (DRAVIDIAN/IRANIAN?) (EAST BRANCH)
    ……INDO-IRANIAN
    …………….Kalash***
    …………….West Asian/East Iranian
    …………………………..Pashtun
    …………………………..Brahui
    …………………………..Balochi
    …………………………..Makrani
    …………………………..Sindhi
    …………….West Himalayan
    …………………………..Hunza
    …………………………..Bartangi
    …………………………..Roma
    …………….Himalayan***
    …………………………..Gurkha
    …………………………..Tharu
    …………………………..Ladakhi
    …………….North Indian**
    …………………………..Punjabi
    …………………………..Central Indic
    …………………………..Punjabi Brahmin
    …………………………..Rajput
    …………………………..Vania Soni
    …………………………..Mumbai Brahmin
    …………………………..Jat
    …………………………..Kerala Brahmin
    …………………………..Koli
    …………….Karnet-Uttar Pradesh Brahmin***
    …………………………..Karnet
    …………………………..Uttar Pradesh Brahmin

    ……INDO-IRANIAN-DRAVIDIAN
    …………….South Indian**
    …………………………..Munda
    …………………………..Bhil
    …………………………..Maratha
    …………………………..Rajbanshi
    …………………………..Oraon
    …………………………..Parji
    …………………………..Kolami-Naiki
    …………………………..Chenchu Reddi
    …………………………..Konda
    …………………………..Kolya
    …………………………..West Bengal Brahmin
    …………………………..Parsi
    …………………………..Gond
    …………….South Dravidian***
    …………………………..Sinhalese
    …………………………..Lambada
    …………………………..Irula
    …………………………..Izhava
    …………………………..Kurumba
    …………………………..Nayar
    …………………………..Toda
    …………………………..Kota
    …………………………..Malayaraya
    …………………………..Tamil
    …………….Kerala Kadar***
    …………………………..Kerala Kadar

    TOTAL CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF RACES, SUBRACES AND TRIBES.

    (for those that find these things interesting)

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    ======Caucasian Macro Race======
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    (Northern Branch of Indo-European Migration)

    ==Northwestern European Races / North Sea and Rivers(R1b/I1) ==
    Atlantic, Celtic, Geramanic (R1b),
    Nordic (Swedish, Norwegian)(I1)

    ===Slavic Race/Baltic/Dniepr/European Plain(R1a) ===
    West Slavic, South Slavic, East Slavic

    === Uralic / Finno-Ugric Race (N) ===
    Finn, Estonian, Latvia, Lithuania, (Russia/Moscovy)
    Norwegian-Swedish Saami Race*** (Norwegian Saami – Swedish Saami)
    Finnish Saami Race** (Finnish Saami)

    === Basque Race ===
    Basque Race (Basque) (R1b1+Heavy non-european Admixture)

    ===Southern Proto Europeans (I2)===
    Sardinian Race** (Sardinian)
    Moldovans,Romanians,Bulgarians,Serbians,

    Bosnians, Croatians (et al)

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    West Asian Major Race
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    ===”Iranian” Race(West Asian)***===
    Iranian Race ( Armenian(R1b/J2) – Jewish(E1/J) – Greek(I2) — Southern Italians(I2) — Turk – Kurd – Iranian – Jordanian – Iraqi – Assyrian – Druze – Lebanese – Georgian – Caspian – Palestinian)
    Tajik Race (Tajik – Bukhara Arab – Shugnan – Kallar – Sourashtran – Yadhava)

    === Arab (Semitic / Iranian-African?) Race===
    (J) (Kuwait, and southern peninsula)
    Kuwaiti Race* (Kuwaiti)
    Arabian Race (Saudi – Yemeni – Bedouin)*
    Egyptian Race (Egyptian)

    ===North African===
    North African Race (Moroccan – Libyan – Tunisian – Canarian)
    Berber Race*** (Berber)
    Algerian Race (Algerian)

    ===Indo Iranian Major Race***===
    Kalash Race*** (Kalash)
    West Asian Race/East Iranian Race (Pashtun – Brahui – Balochi – Makrani – Sindhi )
    West Himalayan Race (Hunza – Bartangi – Roma)
    Himalayan Race*** (Gurkha – Tharu – Ladakhi)

    North Indian Race** (Punjabi – Central Indic – Punjabi Brahmin – Rajput – Vania Soni – Mumbai Brahmin – Jat – Kerala Brahmin – Koli)
    Karnet-Uttar Pradesh Brahmin Race*** (Karnet – Uttar Pradesh Brahmin)

    South Indian Race** (Munda – Bhil – Maratha – Rajbanshi – Oraon – Parji – Kolami-Naiki – Chenchu Reddi – Konda – Kolya – West Bengal Brahmin – Parsi – Gond)

    South Dravidian Race*** (Sinhalese – Lambada – Irula – Izhava – Kurumba – Nayar – Toda – Kota – Malayaraya – Tamil)

    Kerala Kadar Race*** (Kerala Kadar)

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    ======Asian Macro Race======
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    ===Northeast Asian Major Race*===
    Japanese-Korean Race (Japanese – Korean)
    Southern Japanese Race (Honshu Kinki – Kyushu)
    Ryukyuan Race (Okinawans)
    Ainu Race*** (Ainu)
    Gilyak Race** (Gilyak)
    Northern Chinese Race (Northern Han – Qiang – Manchu – Hui – Yunnan Han)
    Oroqen Race (Oroqen)
    Sherpa-Yakut Race (Sherpa – Yakut)
    Nepalese Race (Nepali – Newari)
    Mongolian Race (Mongolian – Inner Mongolian – Buryat – Kazakh)
    Northern Turkic Race*** (Dolgan – Altai – Shor – Tofalar – Uighur – Chelkan – Soyot – Kumandin Teleut – Hazara)
    Central Asian Race (Kirghiz – Karalkalpak – Uzbek – Turkmen)
    Tuva Race (Tuva)
    Tungus Race (Even – Evenki – Russian Saami)
    Siberian Race
    Beringian Race** (Chukchi – Aleut – Siberian Eskimo)
    Paleosiberian Race (Koryak – Itelmen)
    Reindeer Chukchi Race (Reindeer Chukchi)
    General Tibetan Race (Tibetan – Lisu – Nu – Tujia – Akha – Burmese – Yizu)
    Mizo Race (Mizo)
    Bhutanese Race (Bhutanese Buddhist)
    Siberian Uralic Race (Nentsy – Samoyed – Ket – Mansi – Khanty)
    Nganasan Race (Nganasan)
    Uralic Race (Komi – Mari)
    North American Eskimo Race (Inuit)

    ==Amerindian Major Race*==
    Northern Na-Dene Race
    Northwestern American Amerindian Race
    Northern Amerind Race
    Central Amerind Race
    Southern Amerind Race
    Ge Amerindian Race (Ge Language Group)
    Tucanoan Amerindian Race (Tucanoan Language Group)
    Nootka Amerindian Race (Nuuchahnulth – Makah)
    Fuegian Amerindian Race (Ona – Yaghan – Kaweskar – Aonikenk – Alacaluf)

    ===Southeast Asian Major Race*===
    Southern Chinese Race (Dong – Henan Han – Yi – She – Punu – Naxi)
    Hmong-Mien Race (Chinese Hmong – Thai Hmong – Mien)
    Li-Khmer Race (Li – Khmer)
    Southeast China Race (Hakka – Min Nan – Singapore Chinese – Thai Chinese – Cantonese Han)
    South China Sea Race (Tagalog – Ilocano – Visayan – Ami Taiwanese Aborigine – Guangdong Han)
    Manobo Race (Manobo)
    Philippines Negrito Race (Aeta – Agta – Palau Micronesian)
    Mangyan-Ati Race (Iraya – Ati)
    Mamanwa Philippines Negrito Race (Mamanwa)
    Tai Race (Thai – Tai Lue – Tai Kern – Tai Yong – Tai Yuan – Lao – Lahu – Aini – Shan – Dai – Muong – Buyei)
    Vietnamese Race (Vietnamese – Deang – Jinuo – Blang)
    Mlabri Race** (Mlabri)
    Htin Race (Htin)
    Kachin Race (Kachin – Karen – Va – Nung – Lu – Lawa)
    General Taiwanese Aborigine Race (Ayatal – Bunun – Yami)
    Island SE Asian Race (Paiwan Taiwanese Aborigine – Sea Dayak – Sumatran – Balinese)
    Bidayuh Race** (Jagoi)
    Indonesian Race (Sulawesi – Borneo – Lesser Sunda – Sarawak – Javanese)
    Mentawi Race (Mentawi)
    Toraja Race (Toraja)
    Lesser Sunda Race (Kambera – Lembata – Lamaholot – Manggarai)
    Malay Race (Malaysia Malay – Singapore Malay)
    Proto-Malay Race** (Temuan)
    Austroasiatic Race (Mon – Zhuang – She – Ho – Lyngngam)
    Nongtrai Race (Nongtrai)
    Santhal-Naga Race (Santhal – Naga – Munda – Kurmi – Sudra)
    Meghalaya Race (War Jantia – Bhoi – Maram – War Khasi – Kynriam – Nishi – Pnar – Bai)
    Senoi Race (Senoi)
    Shompen Race (Shompen)
    Garo Race (Garo)
    NE Indian Indo-European Race (Mahishya – Bagdi – Gaud – Tanti – Lodha)
    Indian Tibeto-Burman Race (Apatani – Nishi – Adi – Tripuri – Jamatia – Mog – Chakma)
    Semang Malay Negrito Race*** (Semang – Jehai – Kensui)

    ===Oceanian Major Race*===
    Micronesian Race (Yap – Kanaka – Toba Batak Indonesian – Kora Batak Indonesian)
    Polynesian Race* (Tonga – Western Samoa – French Polynesia – Cook Islands)
    Melanesian Race (Fiji – Vanuatu – New Ireland – Papuan Melanesian – Nasioi – Alor Indonesian)

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    ======Australoid Macro Race======
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    ===Australian Major Race***===

    ===General Australian Aborigine Major Race***===
    Queensland Aborigine Race***
    Western Territory Pama-Nguyan Aborigine Race***

    ===Papuan Major Race***===
    General Papuan Race***
    Motu Papuan Race***
    Sepik-Ramu Papuan Race***

    ===Greater Andaman Islands Major Race***===
    Greater Andaman Islands Negrito Race***

    ===Onge Andaman Islands Major Race***===
    Onge Andaman Islands Negrito Race***

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    African Macro Race
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    ===African Major Race***===
    Tigrean Race*** (Tigrean)
    Amharic Race*** (Amharic)
    Sudanese-Barya Race*** (Sudanese – Barya)
    General Nilotic Race (Shilluk – Masai – Nuer – Dinka – Luo – Turkana – Karanojo – Mabaan)
    Funji Nilotic Race (Funji)
    Tuareg-Beja Cushitic Race*** (Tuareg – Beja)
    Nubian Race*** (Nubian)
    Wolof-Peul-Serer Race (Wolof – Peul – Serer)
    General Bantu Race (Most Bantus)
    Bedik Bantu Race (Bedik)
    West African Race (Most West Africans)
    Mbuti Pygmy Race
    Sara Nilotic-Biaka Pygmy Race (Sara – Biaka)
    San Khoisan-Somali Race*** (San – Somali)
    Khoi Khoisan Race*** (Nama – !Ora)
    Hadza Khoisan Race*** (Hadza)
    Sandawe Khoisan Race (Sandawe)

    https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Are-Middle-Eastern-people-Caucasian-If-so-why-are-they-perceived-as-not-being-white-in-America

  • Repeating Myself (Bitcoin), Trolls And Stupid People

    I’m not doing well with trolls lately. Last week some idiot on discord trolled the hell out of me, and succeeded in making me furious. Tonight some idiot tried to debate me about bitcoin. I ended up having to cut him off. So, really, I’m going to just do my thing, and cut the trolls out immediately. I’ve finally surrendered as have most public intellectuals. It’s just not worth debating amateurs. I’m going to let my work speak for itself. WHY IS THAT? Well, you know, I build a foundation for my arguments, and it takes me quite a while to establish that foundation. And I am very precise with terms. And that is just not useful for colloquial conversations. BITCOIN CRITICISMS – NOT THE IDEA, THE MARKETING AND THE EXECUTION My criticisms of BTC are technical. In other words, it’s not with the idea, it’s with the money claims and the execution. My problems are with BTC are: (a) BTC is a novel invention that combines the properties of token money and shares in a speculative startup, to create fractional shares backed only by demand for such shares, and the existence of that network. This mens that yes, it can serve as a medium of exchange, but that it is a ‘money substitute’ that is highly dependent upon an institution that poses a threat to the world order. This is a purely technical observation that is of interest only to people who want to understand where BTC fits in the spectrum of financial instruments. (b) there is zero chance of any form of money substitute persisting outside of the central bank system, because it would destroy the world order, and nations would go to war over it. The long arm of the USG is very powerful worldwide. The opposite is true: digital share development is serving as off book R&D for future government application. The future of taxation depends upon it. And the future of liquidity distribution depends upon it. Because the financial system, which evolved to distribute hard currency is now an impediment to demand generation that reorganizes the economy in response to demand changes and shocks. (c) the limitations of the technology are unavoidable. The empirical evidence is that the user interface problem has been a failure, particularly for businesses, the processing time has been a failure, the scale problem has not been solved, the repeated thefts have not been solved, and the benefit is less than the cost of transition. The world will only accept an escrow-release model. (d) There is an exit problem because of these issues. It is fine as a speculation vehicle but it is a ponzi scheme where late players will be destroyed UNLESS a superior network ‘buys’ or ‘merges’ with BTC trading BTC (customers and their inventory) for replacement currency on a superior network. That is what will happen I’m certain. Since the BTC tech is simply … amateurish. e) IMHO the optimum use of BTC is fractional shares of highly stable assets, thereby making them available to consumers rather than institutions. Propertarianism has taught me that artificially priced debts must not be transferrable (escapable). Ergo, I would prefer banks bring in capital, and sell fractional shares in the income streams, but hold the assets. And the public would also. Now, precisely what have I said above that either 1) is false, or 2) says that BTC will fail? Nothing. SO: 1) If BTC crashes something will replace it. 2) If BTC survives it will be well funded enough to reform (refactor). 3) If something supersedes BTC before it can reform, then they best way to make that superior technology beneficial is to trade BTC fractional shares for fractional shares of that digital substitute. (as far as I know that tech exists, and is just not far enough along yet.) 4) If somethig gets too far out of hand such that black market activity and money laundering are too effective for the state to police, AND BTC crashes, AND there are prosecutions, then it will take a few decades to recover from that – not technically. But politically. And we need this technology. So please don’t come to the table to argue with me without knowing what I am arguing. THE WORLD IS TOO STUPID FOR ME TODAY. Sigh.

  • Repeating Myself (Bitcoin), Trolls And Stupid People

    I’m not doing well with trolls lately. Last week some idiot on discord trolled the hell out of me, and succeeded in making me furious. Tonight some idiot tried to debate me about bitcoin. I ended up having to cut him off. So, really, I’m going to just do my thing, and cut the trolls out immediately. I’ve finally surrendered as have most public intellectuals. It’s just not worth debating amateurs. I’m going to let my work speak for itself. WHY IS THAT? Well, you know, I build a foundation for my arguments, and it takes me quite a while to establish that foundation. And I am very precise with terms. And that is just not useful for colloquial conversations. BITCOIN CRITICISMS – NOT THE IDEA, THE MARKETING AND THE EXECUTION My criticisms of BTC are technical. In other words, it’s not with the idea, it’s with the money claims and the execution. My problems are with BTC are: (a) BTC is a novel invention that combines the properties of token money and shares in a speculative startup, to create fractional shares backed only by demand for such shares, and the existence of that network. This mens that yes, it can serve as a medium of exchange, but that it is a ‘money substitute’ that is highly dependent upon an institution that poses a threat to the world order. This is a purely technical observation that is of interest only to people who want to understand where BTC fits in the spectrum of financial instruments. (b) there is zero chance of any form of money substitute persisting outside of the central bank system, because it would destroy the world order, and nations would go to war over it. The long arm of the USG is very powerful worldwide. The opposite is true: digital share development is serving as off book R&D for future government application. The future of taxation depends upon it. And the future of liquidity distribution depends upon it. Because the financial system, which evolved to distribute hard currency is now an impediment to demand generation that reorganizes the economy in response to demand changes and shocks. (c) the limitations of the technology are unavoidable. The empirical evidence is that the user interface problem has been a failure, particularly for businesses, the processing time has been a failure, the scale problem has not been solved, the repeated thefts have not been solved, and the benefit is less than the cost of transition. The world will only accept an escrow-release model. (d) There is an exit problem because of these issues. It is fine as a speculation vehicle but it is a ponzi scheme where late players will be destroyed UNLESS a superior network ‘buys’ or ‘merges’ with BTC trading BTC (customers and their inventory) for replacement currency on a superior network. That is what will happen I’m certain. Since the BTC tech is simply … amateurish. e) IMHO the optimum use of BTC is fractional shares of highly stable assets, thereby making them available to consumers rather than institutions. Propertarianism has taught me that artificially priced debts must not be transferrable (escapable). Ergo, I would prefer banks bring in capital, and sell fractional shares in the income streams, but hold the assets. And the public would also. Now, precisely what have I said above that either 1) is false, or 2) says that BTC will fail? Nothing. SO: 1) If BTC crashes something will replace it. 2) If BTC survives it will be well funded enough to reform (refactor). 3) If something supersedes BTC before it can reform, then they best way to make that superior technology beneficial is to trade BTC fractional shares for fractional shares of that digital substitute. (as far as I know that tech exists, and is just not far enough along yet.) 4) If somethig gets too far out of hand such that black market activity and money laundering are too effective for the state to police, AND BTC crashes, AND there are prosecutions, then it will take a few decades to recover from that – not technically. But politically. And we need this technology. So please don’t come to the table to argue with me without knowing what I am arguing. THE WORLD IS TOO STUPID FOR ME TODAY. Sigh.

  • REPEATING MYSELF (BITCOIN), TROLLS AND STUPID PEOPLE I’m not doing well with tro

    REPEATING MYSELF (BITCOIN), TROLLS AND STUPID PEOPLE

    I’m not doing well with trolls lately.

    Last week some idiot on discord trolled the hell out of me, and succeeded in making me furious. Tonight some idiot tried to debate me about bitcoin. I ended up having to cut him off.

    So, really, I’m going to just do my thing, and cut the trolls out immediately. I’ve finally surrendered as have most public intellectuals. It’s just not worth debating amateurs.

    I’m going to let my work speak for itself.

    WHY IS THAT?

    Well, you know, I build a foundation for my arguments, and it takes me quite a while to establish that foundation. And I am very precise with terms. And that is just not useful for colloquial conversations.

    BITCOIN CRITICISMS – NOT THE IDEA, THE MARKETING AND THE EXECUTION

    My criticisms of BTC are technical. In other words, it’s not with the idea, it’s with the money claims and the execution.

    My problems are with BTC are:

    (a) BTC is a novel invention that combines the properties of token money and shares in a speculative startup, to create fractional shares backed only by demand for such shares, and the existence of that network. This mens that yes, it can serve as a medium of exchange, but that it is a ‘money substitute’ that is highly dependent upon an institution that poses a threat to the world order. This is a purely technical observation that is of interest only to people who want to understand where BTC fits in the spectrum of financial instruments.

    (b) there is zero chance of any form of money substitute persisting outside of the central bank system, because it would destroy the world order, and nations would go to war over it. The long arm of the USG is very powerful worldwide.

    The opposite is true: digital share development is serving as off book R&D for future government application. The future of taxation depends upon it. And the future of liquidity distribution depends upon it. Because the financial system, which evolved to distribute hard currency is now an impediment to demand generation that reorganizes the economy in response to demand changes and shocks.

    (c) the limitations of the technology are unavoidable. The empirical evidence is that the user interface problem has been a failure, particularly for businesses, the processing time has been a failure, the scale problem has not been solved, the repeated thefts have not been solved, and the benefit is less than the cost of transition. The world will only accept an escrow-release model.

    (d) There is an exit problem because of these issues. It is fine as a speculation vehicle but it is a ponzi scheme where late players will be destroyed UNLESS a superior network ‘buys’ or ‘merges’ with BTC trading BTC (customers and their inventory) for replacement currency on a superior network. That is what will happen I’m certain. Since the BTC tech is simply … amateurish.

    e) IMHO the optimum use of BTC is fractional shares of highly stable assets, thereby making them available to consumers rather than institutions. Propertarianism has taught me that artificially priced debts must not be transferrable (escapable). Ergo, I would prefer banks bring in capital, and sell fractional shares in the income streams, but hold the assets. And the public would also.

    Now, precisely what have I said above that either 1) is false, or 2) says that BTC will fail? Nothing.

    SO:

    1) If BTC crashes something will replace it.

    2) If BTC survives it will be well funded enough to reform (refactor).

    3) If something supersedes BTC before it can reform, then they best way to make that superior technology beneficial is to trade BTC fractional shares for fractional shares of that digital substitute. (as far as I know that tech exists, and is just not far enough along yet.)

    4) If somethig gets too far out of hand such that black market activity and money laundering are too effective for the state to police, AND BTC crashes, AND there are prosecutions, then it will take a few decades to recover from that – not technically. But politically. And we need this technology.

    So please don’t come to the table to argue with me without knowing what I am arguing.

    THE WORLD IS TOO STUPID FOR ME TODAY.

    Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-16 23:14:00 UTC

  • Why Is Russia, With This Great Potential (140 Million Intelligent People, Large Country With Natural Resources, Great Geography And Climate Etc.) Still Relatively Poor?

    A) Um, all aggregate measurements are misleading. If in a country of 1M people, they make $1 a day and I make $1B a day, the GDP/Population will be 365M + 365B/1M, giving the impression that everyone in the country is making more than $300K per year.
    B) Resources are a curse, because they lead to corruption, rent seeking, subsidy, and a lack of innovation.
    C) Putin does not get credit for his expansion of rule of law. But corruption is pervasive. It is not like corruption in the states – which is invisible – it’s visible. And in some ways that’s more tolerable. But it is very hard to start and keep a business running, and it’s middle class and business that drives a people out of low income.
    B) Russia is a VERY big place. I mean, the USA is big. But Russia is 11 time zones big, and like canada, the population is largely along the borders. Imagine the cost of infrastructure in Belgium or Denmark vs the cost of infrastructure in Russia? For example, I spent some time with the founder and ‘president’ of one of the popular mega sports store chains. And what do you do when you run a business across that many time zones, and telephone, internet, and power, are often unreliable? What do you do when you must pay (bribe) people in the government just to get basic things done – not even privileges, but just to do their job? I tried to buy a company in moscow, and i literally couldn’t find one to buy. Not because there weren’t any. But because you can’t keep ‘legit’ books and survive. And it’s never clear who owns anything. Until the past few years it was difficult to trust the courts so contracts were difficult, and cash rather than credit slows the economy. So all of these ‘frictions’ add up.
    C) Moscow is a VERY expensive city (I wish I lived there, I love it and I love russian people). But people outside the major cities are still quite poor. (And Belarus and Ukraine are even worse.)
    D) Russians were virtually slaves 150 years ago. Under the soviets it varied quite a bit from murderous, to horrible to comfortable, to exceptionally good. And then they had a catastrophic event (collapse), and then dragged themselves out of it.

    The only difference I have found between ‘white’ russians and ‘white’ americans is that americans are foolishly optimistic and trusting, and russians are foolishly pessimistic and untrusting. The rest of the western world has turned effeminate in the french(postmodern) and jewish(marxist) and outside of Australians, White americans, and White Russians, Christendom is in a catastrophe.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Russia-with-this-great-potential-140-million-intelligent-people-large-country-with-natural-resources-great-geography-and-climate-etc-still-relatively-poor