Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • FB TIP Replying underneath someone allows them to delete your comment when they

    FB TIP

    Replying underneath someone allows them to delete your comment when they delete theirs.

    I try to save everything I write, everywhere, so if something is worth saving, I post it as a new comment rather than a reply.

    Same for something written by others: Copy the author’s text, then share his post, and past his text into your share. This will preserve your text (I think).

    “Software should never destroy data that the user doesn’t explicitly want it to.”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 03:38:00 UTC

  • VILLAGE GIRLS VS FARM GIRLS Ukrainians use the term ‘Village Girl’ the way we am

    VILLAGE GIRLS VS FARM GIRLS

    Ukrainians use the term ‘Village Girl’ the way we americans use the term “farm girl”. Now, in america this tends to mean ‘pretty, wholesome, pragmatic, honest, and open, if unsophisticated’ and basically uncorrupted by city life.

    A ‘Village Girl’ in Ukraine has all the good qualities, except the poverty has made them a bit ‘pragmatic’ and lacking in suburban romanticism and urban idealism. The local urbanites use the term disparagingly. But I don’t see it the same way.

    We are spoiled in the west. We have forgotten our poverty of less than a century ago.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 01:58:00 UTC

  • signalling narcissism.”— I Love that meme. 🙂

    https://t.co/J08qaokanA—“Value signalling narcissism.”— I Love that meme. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-09 13:47:00 UTC

  • merkel has to go

    merkel has to go.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-09 13:46:00 UTC

  • THE FALLACY OF CRUSOE’S ISLAND EXPLAINED —And the Fallacy of Crusoe’s Island.

    THE FALLACY OF CRUSOE’S ISLAND EXPLAINED

    —And the Fallacy of Crusoe’s Island. Surrounded by the sea. But what does the sea that defends Crusoe’s island represent? It represents the walls of the ancient master’s house defended by master and warriors. It represents the ghetto’s walls defended by the european nobles and knights. It represents the eastern european territories defended by the Tsars and the Polish/Lithuanian Armies. It represents Israel defended by American Navy, Arms, Missiles, and money.—-

    Cosmopolitanism is a worse failure than anglo liberalism.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-09 12:42:00 UTC

  • NO PUTIN ISN”T SAYING NUKE ISIS he’s merely pointing out that the new missiles h

    NO PUTIN ISN”T SAYING NUKE ISIS

    he’s merely pointing out that the new missiles have proved accurate and effective in the field, and that they can be equipped with Nuclear missiles.

    He is attempting to show his people how powerful his Russia is, and insult NATO while doing it.

    While russia is using the current isis conflict to conduct more attacks daily in eastern ukraine, it’s possible he’s felt enough economic pain to constrain his actions to his borders.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-09 11:42:00 UTC

  • THE REAL VALUE EMERGES

    https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/sec-approves-overstock-com-s-filing-to-issue-shares-using-bitcoin-blockchain-1449539558BLOCKCHAIN – THE REAL VALUE EMERGES

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-08 23:44:00 UTC

  • (Family reunion every 4yrs. Hundreds from around USA. Inter generational similar

    (Family reunion every 4yrs. Hundreds from around USA. Inter generational similarities consistent. Puritans still in the genes.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-08 12:48:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/674208993112408065

    Reply addressees: @AliceTeller

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673851422979526657

    IN REPLY TO:

    @AliceTeller

    @curtdoolittle It does. No one with more than two kids can possible believe in the blank state. They are born with their own temperament.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673851422979526657

  • THE END OF THE ERA @politico @J.K. Rowling —Trump is ending the postwar consen

    THE END OF THE ERA

    @politico @J.K. Rowling

    —Trump is ending the postwar consensus in politics, as Putin ended it in international relations.— Curt Doolittle

    @politico @J.K. Rowling

    —We could not imagine the fall of World Communism in 1987. We cannot imagine the fall of postmodernism today. It fell.—Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-08 11:00:00 UTC

  • The Andresson Horowitz Model as Landless Monarchy

    “Most of our first customers that were over a $1M have come as relationships through Andreessen Horowitz.”—Jessica Lessin @Jessicalessin @pmarca

    1) Not surprisingly, the Andreessen Horowitz model is identical to that of the monarchies – albeit without land holding. 2) Entrepreneurial Paternalism vs State Capitalism seek the same end by different means. Classes differ in preference. 3) Both Paternal models make use of credit. But one tolerates risk, and the other tolerates corruption. 4) Which is to say that Andresson Horowitz’s experiment is a model for post-democratic, post-state capitalist government