Curt Doolittle

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  • Friedman: #Putin has 2 years to hold #Russia together “Putin is more dangerous n

    http://www.businessinsider.com/george-friedman-putin-more-dangerous-than-ever-2016-1George Friedman: #Putin has 2 years to hold #Russia together

    “Putin is more dangerous now than ever.”

    Putin thinks like a Russian. (And not like a Jew or Protestant). And he plays the long game. Friedman is right about Putin’s resources. He is not right about what Russia and Putin will do -or how much they will bear – to restore their self confidence.

    He will, in asiatic fashion, slowly withdraw and claim victories, and claim that his mission has been accomplished, and that now that russia’s place in the world has been restored, it is time to redouble russian efforts at home, and focus on the economy, to transform it from dependence upon oil, and to build her people, and the future.

    He can do this because he can crush dissent, and chant this meme on the media. We forget that a competitive press is not always a good thing because like the stock market it focuses constantly on the short term.

    And it is right for him and them as far as I know.

    My position on Russia remains constant: speak the truth and that’s enough. Eastern Europe cannot be Russia’s. Russians are not capable of moral rule – even of themselves – yet. And eastern europeans do not need rule. They need a middle class. The last thing they need is more Russian influence.

    But other than this, expansion into the more primitive countries, the suppression of islam, and unity between russia and china and the west is a good thing. We still have much of the world to civilize.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-23 05:52:00 UTC

  • WILL CHANGE BUT NOT OCCUPATIONS —”It seems plausible that the future, too, wil

    http://www.voxeu.org/article/technological-progress-thing-pastTECH WILL CHANGE BUT NOT OCCUPATIONS

    —”It seems plausible that the future, too, will create occupations we cannot imagine, let alone envisage.”— Joel Mokyr

    But have professions really changed in 2500 years?

    Looks much more like a limited set of roles adapting to technology.

    All we seem to see is shifting to increasingly abstract tools, and abandoning the tail jobs as utility of tail technologies dissipate..

    Tech changes, But do occupations?

    Research, Invention, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Production, Distribution, Trade, and Consumption, and Reproduction all continue.

    Those are our Occupations. Technology is merely a product.

    What about Disciplines? Coercion by Force, Coercion by Exchange, Coercion by words.

    We have constant disciplines and occupations, but the technology merely rolls on through them.

    We have made the earth our anthill.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-23 05:31:00 UTC

  • ” Ideology is easily digestible by those eager to be fed.”— Howard Roark

    —” Ideology is easily digestible by those eager to be fed.”— Howard Roark

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-21 09:38:00 UTC

  • “Apple remains the most important stock to the entire market. The brutal 30% dro

    —“Apple remains the most important stock to the entire market. The brutal 30% drop in the stock from its high has erased $224 billion in investors wealth – which exceeds the market value of all but a handful of the stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500. Apple’s profits are so large and important, they are expected to account for 7.2% of the operating earnings reported by all the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500”—

    Like I said

    (a) Apple will have to go for the business market once the consumer market peaks

    (b) Enterprise software will have to catch up on its underinvestment in order to sell hardware.

    I was kind of hoping we had two more years before it happened so that we could get oversing up there.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-21 03:05:00 UTC

  • Retweeted Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias): Every 4 years people say it’s the mo

    Retweeted Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias):

    Every 4 years people say it’s the most important election in years because growing polarization means the stakes are in fact always rising.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-20 14:29:00 UTC

  • IS WRONG WITH BRITS ANYWAY? (Curt Doolittle | 19th January 2016 at 1:44 pm) Why

    http://dabonxie.com/politics/797-david-cameron-set-to-deport-entire-whalsay-population-for-failing-to-learn-how-to-speak-english-properly/WHAT IS WRONG WITH BRITS ANYWAY?

    (Curt Doolittle | 19th January 2016 at 1:44 pm)

    Why the UK penchant for nonsense arguments? The Romans held disdain for the immorality of the greeks for the very same reason that the rest of the world holds disdain for Brits.

    Sentences, paragraphs, and speeches rarely consist of recipes. Just because a man refers to a cake, does not mean he cannot bake one from constituent parts..

    Just because a public servant refers to a policy agenda, does not mean he cannot create a practical one from practical measures.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 08:45:00 UTC

  • HAS LARGELY BEEN USED LIKE RELIGION: TO LIE

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/30/13803/PHILOSOPHY HAS LARGELY BEEN USED LIKE RELIGION: TO LIE.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 18:24:00 UTC

  • RULE OR BE RULED —“Men should rule because men can rule. And anything that can

    RULE OR BE RULED

    —“Men should rule because men can rule. And anything that can, with advantage, happen, sooner or later does. Simple as that really.”— Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 07:36:00 UTC

  • “The Marxists learned, the hard way, that ‘work’ is much more mysterious than th

    —“The Marxists learned, the hard way, that ‘work’ is much more mysterious than they had imagined.”—Joshua Zeidner

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 13:55:00 UTC

  • not intelligence, helps men have more sex,” says Dr. Hopcroft, the UNC sociologi

    http://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/does-intelligence-affect-your-sex-life-2016-1—““Money, not intelligence, helps men have more sex,” says Dr. Hopcroft, the UNC sociologist. “In and of itself, intellect won’t do the trick. But intelligence helps them get money.””—

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 12:49:00 UTC