Ukrainian women see a dress they like in a magazine. What do they do? They buy the fabric And either make it themselves or have someone make it for them.
Freaking awesome.
You can spend your time doing all sorts of things. The only choice we have in life is that.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-09 08:49:00 UTC
sprawling 2.5 aches, he’s joking right?
make it 250 & I’ll still need to think about it, some of us still remember what happened to the Volga Germans.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 10:09:00 UTC
( this freaking country. someone stole my headphones. a nation of petty thieves. sigh. no commons. anything that isn’t nailed down or policed 24x7x365 gets stolen in the blink of any eye. I swear I go through a set of apple headphones every quarter. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 06:48:00 UTC
I just figured out the simple UI model that will allow us to replace Microsoft Excel with a next-generation application both similar enough yet innovative enough – and it’s trivial really.
Oversing in later versions will be powerful enough. It may require that we add a desktop version in addition to the web version.
But the Oversing Model holds up.
Just got to get it across the line. So close now.
All those resources that all those people in California have to do what little they do, and we want to revolutionize the workspace and we do it on a shoestring.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 04:03:00 UTC
https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/death-and-destruction-bin-ladens-true-legacy?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturdaysend160406&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Ib75IA6nQMrQbss73G6ahn9DtMaWWWMx32US_P3nqaU-VwIMJeGviwJEuFI1Bz7AlLhw-S7AH3FLTHjULKArRgNgmbA&_hsmi=29346704Scott,
As far as I can tell, Bin Laden was successful in forcing the USA to invade, unifying his people against the west, and causing multiple revolutions against the status quo (weak fragmented states), in order to restore the islamic empire.
That this will likely result in a combination of Iranian/northern and Arabian/southern core states (at least), and result in the invasion of the west by islam (despite our resistance for 1500 years) would likely thrill him as greater success than he’d intended.
I can’t actually understand why you think a legacy of violence is somehow a ‘bad’ when that is islam’s central legacy, and something that they are as proud of as are the Russians and the Mongolians and the Chinese.
Bin Laden won. The strategy worked. His work will be studied for centuries. God knows I study it.
https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/death-and-destruction-bin-ladens-true-legacy
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-07 07:46:00 UTC
Our senses are limited because
(a) sensory processing is expensive.
(b) senses evolved to assist in action – without being too expensive
(c) senses we cannot act upon are unnecessary expenses.
(d) humans operate in groups and divide the responsibility of sensing, and that is a better way of increasing sensory power.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-07 00:33:00 UTC
HOW DO YOU PRICE NORMATIVE DECLINE? [H]elpful conversation about Ukrainian people with my friend Марта Госовська yesterday. She was able to help me understand how Russian rule turned the Ukrainian people immoral, and how far they must come before they can change. Because now, like Russia, people are taught how to take advantage not how to produce. Why they cannot organize in large numbers. Why their courts do not work. Why their politicians, bureaucrats, professors, teachers and police are corrupt. This is an example of the problem of pricing norms. What is the cost of Russian (Soviet) rule of eastern Europe? What is the cost of the marxist program? What is the cost of the 1964 immigration program? These costs are real. And not including them is practicing deceit by not fully accounting for costs. What it the cost of normative decline to the white underclass?
HOW DO YOU PRICE NORMATIVE DECLINE? [H]elpful conversation about Ukrainian people with my friend Марта Госовська yesterday. She was able to help me understand how Russian rule turned the Ukrainian people immoral, and how far they must come before they can change. Because now, like Russia, people are taught how to take advantage not how to produce. Why they cannot organize in large numbers. Why their courts do not work. Why their politicians, bureaucrats, professors, teachers and police are corrupt. This is an example of the problem of pricing norms. What is the cost of Russian (Soviet) rule of eastern Europe? What is the cost of the marxist program? What is the cost of the 1964 immigration program? These costs are real. And not including them is practicing deceit by not fully accounting for costs. What it the cost of normative decline to the white underclass?
(FEELING OF AWE: I feel it again. I’m struck by just how CLOSE Hayek came. He started with the mind. He correctly identified information as the model. He correctly identified Law as social science.
He was SO CLOSE. So close that in retrospect we can see he was right as far as he went.
He just couldn’t assemble the pieces DESPITE being so close an associate of Popper and Mises.
And Popper came so CLOSE also. Mises had a piece, but he was too confused by his righteousness.
These people were at the END of the enlightenment, so that they could look at what had failed. But they just couldn’t put it together.
They might have if it had not been for Keynes finding a pseudoscientific excuse for Britain to inflate away her war costs, and for the democratic socialists to fund their scheme.
But the answer was being discovered in mathematics, computer science, and physics. And It seems that no one (at least until I stumbled on it) put it all together.
Thank you Rafe Champion for putting the seed in my head so many years ago. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-06 02:59:00 UTC
[S]acred rituals (church/temple in particular) reward us with the pack response (spirituality/elation) and inclusive signals in exchange for learning the skill of suppression of our impulses.
The most aggressive and demanding ritual is that of islam’s multitude of demands and daily repetitions, the most intellectually demanding judaism, the least demanding and most disorganized christianity, the most spiritual buddhism, the most ritualistic and perhaps best Japanese co-religions of shinto and buddhism, the most difficult and most beneficial stoicism combined with aristotelian empiricism (law and science).
These rituals are necessary in every society if for no other reason than to train us to show piety (respect), for the commons.
Westerners were able to develop commons in some part, because the church suppressed impulse through their ritual.
The sacred = that which I must not impose any cost upon, whatsoever.