Curt Doolittle

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  • BEGINS TO REGULATE BITCOINS

    http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9B407L20131205?irpc=932CHINA BEGINS TO REGULATE BITCOINS

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-05 07:26:00 UTC

  • THE INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM CHILD WAS THE CALIPHATE. WHY? “The endogamous [inbred]

    THE INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM CHILD WAS THE CALIPHATE. WHY?

    “The endogamous [inbred] family is found predominantly in the middle east and north Africa” – Auke Rijpma and Sarah Carmichael “Testing Todd: global data on family characteristics” (2003)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-03 16:25:00 UTC

  • HIDE SYSTEM AND PROPERTY RIGHTS “for a good part of the medieval period, then, f

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide_(unit)THE HIDE SYSTEM AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

    “for a good part of the medieval period, then, frisian society continued to be based on clans rather than nuclear families. the frisians had been christianized, which is important in breaking down tribes and clans, but they weren’t manorialized, which seems to be another key in getting to an “atomized” society based on the individual and the nuclear family.

    The hide system meant that the lord of the manor would lease out (on a long-term lease — like lasting a life-time) farms to married couples. not to extended families. not to clans. just to a married couple (and their kids). manorialism and the hide system, therefore, also broke down the clan connections, along with the loosening of the genetic ties via all the outbreeding. so in places where people converted to christianity (and, therefore, stopped inbreeding), but DIDN’T have manorialism, extended family systems and even clans could — and did — survive for longer, since the clan system wasn’t also broken down by the hide system.” — HBD_chick

    See wiki:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide_(unit)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-03 16:21:00 UTC

  • DON”T WANT THE BUBBLE BURST. THAT JUST MEANS MORE INDOCTRINATION

    http://www.technologyreview.com/view/522111/how-to-burst-the-filter-bubble-that-protects-us-from-opposing-views/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=facebookI DON”T WANT THE BUBBLE BURST. THAT JUST MEANS MORE INDOCTRINATION.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-02 04:55:00 UTC

  • but true)

    http://markmanson.net/stop-trying-to-be-happy(sentimental but true)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-02 04:52:00 UTC

  • SAID THE SAME THING. SO DID GALBRAITH BEFORE HE DIED. In the US case, 200K per m

    http://rt.com/news/iceland-debt-relief-measure-535/I SAID THE SAME THING. SO DID GALBRAITH BEFORE HE DIED.

    In the US case, 200K per mortgage, would have kept the world pricing system intact. As it was, the entire world had to reorganize production to adjust to new signals. And as far as I can tell, for no good reason. Instead of buying down homeowner debt with federal debt and forcing lenders to take drastic penalties. We destroyed the wealth of generations, and impoverished them.

    My estimate was 2-4T. And that was CHEAP by comparison.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-02 04:50:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases, Locking Countless Innocent Americans in Prison

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-02 03:18:00 UTC

  • DIVERSITY IS A BAD THING. I KNOW. WE ALL KNOW NOW. PUTNAM IS RIGHT. But I can’t

    http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/11/paradox-diverse-communities/7614/YES, DIVERSITY IS A BAD THING. I KNOW. WE ALL KNOW NOW. PUTNAM IS RIGHT.

    But I can’t tell what happens under monarchy, where there isn’t any access to political power, and everyone has to compete in the market rather than rent seek via politics.

    As far as I can tell, diversity of neighborhoods might not be problematic if there isn’t any ability to influence the state.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 23:31:00 UTC

  • WORST GENERATION: BOOMERS

    http://on.wsj.com/IwFmn0THE WORST GENERATION: BOOMERS

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 16:04:00 UTC

  • IMPORTANCE OF SIMPLE RULES: COMMENSURABILITY=LEGITIMACY “Our present-day Western

    http://blogs.elpais.com/atomium-culture/2013/11/the-power-from-below-understanding-europes-historical-institutional-diversity.htmlTHE IMPORTANCE OF SIMPLE RULES: COMMENSURABILITY=LEGITIMACY

    “Our present-day Western society is highly regulated and institutionalized: formal agreements are made at various levels within society to make things run smoothly, from driving a car, to disposing waste, to taking part in local and national elections. Breaching a rule usually carries a sanction.”

    **”However, if rules are simply added without attention to the internal coherence of the regulations, contradictory situations may emerge within the regulations and the rules may become ineffective: they may no longer be understood by the stakeholders or they may simply be ignored (leading to freeriding), with sanctions no longer being applied.”**

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 15:29:00 UTC