Curt Doolittle

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  • Danny Frederick wrote a paper in popper that’s worth reading! I had given up hop

    http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/37663988/Critical_Rationalism.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ56TQJRTWSMTNPEA&Expires=1432296340&Signature=P6AGu6JN8r6VWISKYpuWCMvLDoM%3DDammit. Danny Frederick wrote a paper in popper that’s worth reading!

    I had given up hope! 😉

    I criticise popper for failing as did all his cosmopolitan peers because of his cultural hermeneutic bias. I criticise his followers for heaping undue praise and idol worship. Others For errors of formal logic to a problem

    Of action. And for errors of empty verbalism. (Fuzzy language)

    But in the end my work is an extension of Popper’s Critical Rationalism, and Hoppe’s formal argumentative application of property to explain gaudy’ findings, and to confirm Hayek’s insight into law.

    Criticise followers. Appreciate the shoulders you stand upon.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-22 07:22:00 UTC

  • “There has been a total failure of the smart and rich people running our corpora

    —“There has been a total failure of the smart and rich people running our corporations to have any sense of trying to help proles by improving their future-time-orientation. Instead, they just try to rip them off and brainwash them into mindless consumerism. They completely lack what the French called noblesse oblige.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-21 13:03:00 UTC

  • RESEARCH INTO THE OBVIOUS SUBMISSION

    http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10818-015-9200-9TODAY’S RESEARCH INTO THE OBVIOUS SUBMISSION

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 22:06:00 UTC

  • THE GENOME BY OTHER THAN BREEDING IS VERY DIFFICULT – AND A LOT LESS FUN —-The

    http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/05/dont-fear-crispr-babies-2.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marginalrevolution%2Ffeed+%28Marginal+Revolution%29#sthash.BoxnDvpg.dpufALTERING THE GENOME BY OTHER THAN BREEDING IS VERY DIFFICULT – AND A LOT LESS FUN

    —-The largest ever survey of genes associated with IQ found 69 separate genes, which together accounted for less than 8% of the variance in IQ scores, implying that at least hundreds of genes, if not thousands, involved in IQ. (See paper, here.) As Nature reported, even the three genes with the largest individual impact added up to less than two points of IQ:

    The three variants the researchers identified were each responsible for an average of 0.3 points on an IQ test. … That means that a person with two copies of each variant would score 1.8 points higher on an intelligence test than a person with none of them.—-

    http://www.pnas.org/content/111/38/13790.full.pdf

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 21:57:00 UTC

  • CORRUPTION DOESN”T GREASE THE WHEELS. IT”S RUST. —Whether demands for bribes f

    http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/05/12/wber.lhv001.abstractNO. CORRUPTION DOESN”T GREASE THE WHEELS. IT”S RUST.

    —Whether demands for bribes for particular government services are associated with expedited or delayed policy implementation underlies debates around the role of corruption in private sector development. The “grease the wheels” hypothesis, which contends that bribes act as speed money, implies three testable predictions. First, on average, bribe requests should be negatively correlated with wait times. Second, this relationship should vary across firms, with those with the highest opportunity cost of waiting being more likely to pay and facing shorter delays. Third, the role of grease should vary across countries, with benefits larger where regulatory burdens are greatest. The data are inconsistent with all three predictions. According to the preferred specifications, ceteris paribus, firms confronted with demands for bribes take approximately 1.5 times longer to get a construction permit, operating license, or electrical connection than firms that did not have to pay bribes and, respectively, 1.2 and 1.4 times longer to clear customs when exporting and importing. The results are robust to controlling for firm fixed effects and at odds with the notion that corruption enhances efficiency.—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 21:27:00 UTC

  • UPPER CLASS INSIGHTS

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/opinion/sunday/poor-little-rich-women.htmlAMERICAN UPPER CLASS INSIGHTS

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 21:23:00 UTC

  • LEFTISTS ARE IGNORANT —“Never, in all my years of leftist activism, did I ever

    LEFTISTS ARE IGNORANT

    —“Never, in all my years of leftist activism, did I ever hear anyone articulate accurately the position of anyone to our right. In fact, I did not even know those positions when I was a leftist.”— Danusha Goska, in American Thinker

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 09:12:00 UTC

  • “Evidence will be presented to demonstrate that Proto-Indo-European is the resul

    —“Evidence will be presented to demonstrate that Proto-Indo-European is the result of the imposition of a Eurasiatic language on a population speaking one or more primordial Northwest Caucasian languages.”—

    Language is a Technology

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 07:30:00 UTC

  • (emotionally satisfying rant of the day) —“Imagine if Obama were just as TOUGH

    (emotionally satisfying rant of the day)

    —“Imagine if Obama were just as TOUGH on ISIS Muslim savages as he is on lawful gun owners, and high income earners.”—–

    Some nonsense that ends up in my inbox is still entertaining. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 04:31:00 UTC

  • AUTOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS SEEK RENTS SOCIETIES CAN NEVER DEVELOP. —“|Peter Boettk

    http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2015/05/there-is-no-magic-bullet-in-development.htmlIF AUTOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS SEEK RENTS SOCIETIES CAN NEVER DEVELOP.

    —“|Peter Boettke|

    That is what Marshall Poe concludes as the punch line for Robin Grier and Jerry Hough’s The Long Process of Development. As he puts it, development in the Grier and Hough story is about style of governance and the passage of time:

    If autocratic governments do nothing but take rents, the societies they rule will not develop, not ever, no matter how long or hard the governments try to development them. If they are even semi-popular and pro-trade, they will develop, though it will take a very, very long time. There’s no magic bullet. You can’t simply import democracy and capitalism and hope for a rapid transition to freedom and prosperity.

    The process of development takes centuries.”—

    ( Ayelam Valentine Agaliba )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-18 11:33:00 UTC