Curt Doolittle

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  • EXPERIMENT: MEDIUMS OF ACCOUNT AND EXCHANGE

    http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/10/medium-of-account-vs-medium-of-exchange.htmlTHOUGHT EXPERIMENT: MEDIUMS OF ACCOUNT AND EXCHANGE

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-01 13:15:00 UTC

  • Is there a cat-picture filter for Facebook feeds?

    Is there a cat-picture filter for Facebook feeds?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-09-29 21:13:00 UTC

  • WHAT PERCENT OF YOUR PORTFOLIO IS IN GOLD? So, I have this little hobby forecast

    WHAT PERCENT OF YOUR PORTFOLIO IS IN GOLD?

    So, I have this little hobby forecasting currency changes. And, really, I do pretty well with it. That’s because governments are predictable and slow moving. And economic instability has created plenty of opportunity since 2008.

    Now, I’m not a gold bug. Like most analysts, I just view it as another form of manipulatable currency. And I’m not a trader. I invest in my businesses. And my cash reserves are defensive. So, gold is just a currency to move to when others are going to fall. The ticker symbol GLD is a fairly safe way to buy.

    And since gold is fairly volatile, you can buy it gradually over time in the valleys.

    I’m going to increase my GLD holdings by 5%, even though my intuition says to increase them by 10%.

    This election is going to have an enormous impact on world affairs. And like I wrote in 2006, the only way they’re going to fix the problem is to all but destroy the currency both here and in Europe. I just don’t see a way around it at this point without pervasive civil unrest.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-28 16:20:00 UTC

  • PERILS OF PROLETARIAN OVERBREEDING Are you sure that women have a natural right

    http://scienceblog.com/56182/sea-life-facing-major-extinction-shock/THE PERILS OF PROLETARIAN OVERBREEDING

    Are you sure that women have a natural right to reproduce? Why?

    And why should we subsidize proletarian inbreeding and overbreeding?

    There is no environmental problem. There is an overbreeding problem.

    Not only is overbreeding dysgenic, but it’s environmentally catastrophic.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-21 09:49:00 UTC

  • ARE THERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE TO FORCE INVOLUNTARY TRANSFERS? QUES

    ARE THERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE TO FORCE INVOLUNTARY TRANSFERS?

    QUESTION: “True or false: there are cases in modern society – not referring to CEOs or the like – where some peoples’ voluntary decision(s) to pursue their own (non-violent) interests inadvertently harm other people in tangible ways. If yes, examples?” – Ashtad Bin Sayyif

    ANSWER: “There are many such opportunities. They fall into informal (moral and ethical) and formal ( property and opportunity) categories whereby one causes an involuntary transfer from others to one’s self. Society is constructed of these formal and informal rules. All of which prevent us from using asymmetry of information to cause involuntary transfers. From the most common retail clerk, to the most sophisticated legal document, from the most common of marital abuses, to the most formal partnership and citizenship agreements. Almost no human action is devoid of opportunity to cause involuntary transfers. It’s pervasive. We have the vast edifice of laws, morals, ethics and manners to attempt to prohibit them.” – Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-17 02:07:00 UTC

  • What percent of US hardwood production is devoted to making pallets? “And yet pa

    What percent of US hardwood production is devoted to making pallets?

    “And yet pallets are arguably as integral to globalization as containers. For an invisible object, they are everywhere: There are said to be billions circulating through global supply chain (2 billion in the United States alone). Some 80 percent of all U.S. commerce is carried on pallets. So widespread is their use that they account for, according to one estimate, more than 46 percent of total U.S. hardwood lumber production.” – Cowen

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-16 18:18:00 UTC

  • ECONOMIST OR LIBERTARIAN QUESTION: Does anyone know if there has been any resear

    ECONOMIST OR LIBERTARIAN QUESTION: Does anyone know if there has been any research done on student loan defaults by political preference?

    I know the most defaults came from the most left wing university. (Wesleyan.) But I haven’t seen anything on conservatives.

    It’d be an interesting statistic.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-08-04 13:00:00 UTC

  • Question: From the GSH perspective, does a woman have the right to bear a child

    Question: From the GSH perspective, does a woman have the right to bear a child that she cannot support, thus mandating transfers, and sacrifices, from others to her? The reason I ask is that while protestant christianity certainly contains content that is absurd, the effect of its “chinese room” (see Searle) is a prohibition on involuntary transfers, and a requirement for responsible independence. Democratic Secular Humanism appears rational, but encourages involuntary transfers. Christianity implies inequality is natural. DSH advocates (at least statistically) believe that humans are equal. So, there is madness on both sides. Or, would you suggest DSH as a political movement is separate from GSH as a personal philosophical movement?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-07-04 09:01:00 UTC

  • WAS THAT A SMALL EARTHQUAKE? Greater Seattle Area?

    WAS THAT A SMALL EARTHQUAKE?

    Greater Seattle Area?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-05-20 23:20:00 UTC

  • QUESTION Is there knowledge or wisdom we would prefer not to have even if it is

    QUESTION

    Is there knowledge or wisdom we would prefer not to have even if it is inescapably true?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-05-17 21:40:00 UTC