Curt Doolittle

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  • ATWOOD’S LAW “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually

    ATWOOD’S LAW

    “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-27 06:27:00 UTC

  • READ (Of course, I’d aregue that we are spending our creative efforts trying to

    http://business.time.com/2013/08/26/nobelist-on-americas-missing-economic-mojo-and-how-to-get-it-back/MUST READ

    (Of course, I’d aregue that we are spending our creative efforts trying to keep the givernment away so we are reducing investment in things that are taxable and open to regulation as a means of defending ourselves from the state.

    The state is more interested in wonen snd minorities than it is in our civilizatiin and its economy. The reason is democracy and the addition of unproductive rent seekers to the voting pool.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-26 07:40:00 UTC

  • “My theory … revolves around the role of the news media. The media are a liber

    http://themonkeycage.org/2013/08/22/a-theory-of-the-importance-of-very-serious-people-in-the-democratic-party/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+themonkeycagefeed+%28The+Monkey+Cage%29SMART

    “My theory … revolves around the role of the news media. The media are a liberal, Democratic-leaning institution. This can be seen, for example, from surveys of journalists (the last one I saw showed Democratic reporters outnumbering Republicans 2-1) or political endorsements or various other studies. It is my impression that the news media lean left but the public-relation industry leans right.

    “Anyway, my point here is that the Republican party has a lot of resources, including much of big business, military officers, and organized religion. They don’t need the news media in the way that the Democrats do. And, I suspect one reason why Very Serious People are important for Democrats is that they are respected by the media. The Republicans can put together a budget that is mocked by major newspapers and nobody cares. But if the Democrats lose the support of the New York Times, they’re in trouble. Hence the asymmetry in seriousness. One might say that the Republicans are hurt by a similar asymmetry with regard to social issues, in that they can’t ignore the support of the religious right or talk radio. Although this is a bit different: the so-called Very Serious People pull the Democrats toward the center, while social issue groups pull the Republicans to the right.

    “To put it another way, each party has a coalition of financial interests and political activists that are important in staffing the party and shaping its goals. The Democratic party’s balance has changed: in recent decades, with the decline of labor unions, various segments of industry such as high-tech have become important, also there are doctors and lawyers and newspapers. These are all groups that will tend to favor centrist, status-quo, what Krugman might call “very serious” policies.

    “I think this could/should be studied more systematically (ideally in some sort of comparative analysis with data from many countries).”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-26 01:46:00 UTC

  • “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.” – Camill

    “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”

    – Camille Paglia

    (Genius)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-25 16:09:00 UTC

  • “[AMERICAN] FEMINISM IS A HATE MOVEMENT” Not sure I want to go that far. But it’

    “[AMERICAN] FEMINISM IS A HATE MOVEMENT”

    Not sure I want to go that far. But it’s good propaganda for the men’s rights movement.

    I’m a libertarian and I support equal rights FOR EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING. But that isn’t american feminism’s goal. It’s goal is either communism and socialism: that women can appropriate men’s assets via the state. And we even have a woman on our supreme court who supports that view.

    But, I don’t see that ‘kinda feminism over here. Feminism means equal legal rights. It means the right to be the most amazing woman you can be. It doesn’t mean ‘we hate men’. In America, at least for Generations 1-3 it means ‘hate men’.

    Sad. Very sad. Because feminism destroyed the family in the lower classes. Killed it. And poverty is running at an expanding rate in its wake.

    Equal rights are not ‘privileges’ or socialism. That’s just theft.

    If you demonstrate a gender bias in the work place you’re an idiot. All people in the market are the color of whatever currency you use.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-24 09:49:00 UTC

  • WONDER HOW MUCH WAGGENER EDSTROM (WAG-ED) SPENT SEARCHING FOR SOME SUCKER WHO WO

    http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/23/steve-ballmers-classy-exit/I WONDER HOW MUCH WAGGENER EDSTROM (WAG-ED) SPENT SEARCHING FOR SOME SUCKER WHO WOULD PUT A POSITIVE SPIN ON ONE OF THE WORST CEO’S IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

    Hopefully someone with talent will come back. If there is anyone WILLING to come back.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-24 07:16:00 UTC

  • FAVOR OF NEPOTISM AND CRONYISM But by and large, financial firms in particular c

    http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/hiring-the-well-connected-isnt-always-a-scandal/?_r=2IN FAVOR OF NEPOTISM AND CRONYISM

    But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship. The thinking is that the new hire — and his or her last name — might “help open doors,” Mr. Driscoll said. But, like many people I interviewed on this topic, he did not see a legal issue with such hires. “I don’t think there is a quid pro quo,” such that the hiring of children is explicitly generating business from the parent. At best, he said, “It gets you in the room.” He added: “It’s like chicken soup. It can’t hurt.”

    Actually, I encourage it. The reason being, that I like a) a family to have all the eggs in our basket, and b) it builds more trust – as long as the company is transparent. (And since I only build transparent companies, that’s not a problem.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-24 02:06:00 UTC

  • WE CANT GET TO DENMARK. (Diversity) “There is no way the United States can mimic

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/08/great-gatsby-the-chart-at-the-core-of-obamanomics/WHY WE CANT GET TO DENMARK.

    (Diversity)

    “There is no way the United States can mimic the outcomes of Denmark in the way Danes have made that accomplishment: a geographically small country, ethnically homogenous, with high levels of trust, and a labour market notably more structured is not a guide for American public policy.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-22 13:56:00 UTC

  • WE NEED MORE PEOPLE? Are children an economic good? No. They are a necessity, pr

    http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2013/08/does-the-world-need-more-people-posner.htmlDO WE NEED MORE PEOPLE?

    Are children an economic good? No. They are a necessity, preference, or luxury.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-19 03:36:00 UTC

  • know its painful to accept, but politics like all other human behavior is bounde

    http://crookedtimber.org/2013/08/18/krugman-keynes-kalecki-konczal1/comment-page-1/#commentsI know its painful to accept, but politics like all other human behavior is bounded by morality more so than ignorance.

    There is too much search for cognitive error in this thread, and too little understanding of morality.

    Austerity worked in Europe. It is working in America. Because it

    is accomplishing moral ends – according to the moral criteria of citizens.

    Humans will suffer greatly to punish the immoral. And that is what they are doing.

    It may be difficult to grasp but morality in the political context is as important as prices and incentives. If people do not think the world is moral, they will not act morally. And they hate the idea that the world might be immoral. Morality and norms are the original human currency. People are masters of its accountancy

    Conservatives place higher value on norms than consumption. And their view is that empowering the government is rewarding immorality. Conservatives understand morality. They speak in moral language and they win moral arguments. And the control the public discourse with moral arguments.

    I have been arguing since ’08 that the only way to push spending through would be to limit it to moral channels. And the progressive argument is always the same: morality doesn’t matter and its all nonsense.

    But its not. Its as necessary as law. More so.

    If you had told me this as a student I would have laughed. But there it is.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-08-19 03:30:00 UTC