Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • Asymmetry of Earnings. In Ukraine, a gardener/landscaper costs $200 month. A hou

    Asymmetry of Earnings.

    In Ukraine, a gardener/landscaper costs $200 month. A housekeeper / cook / maid $800. You probably own your car outright, and your home/apartment outright. And bribing your way out of a speeding or traffic ticket costs $10-$20. Food is cheap, fresh and good quality (other than beef which isn’t sweet here.) Violent crime is hard to find although like all of europe, the degree of petty crime is outrageous to americans. The internet is good, nearly free, and pretty much everywhere. Sure, the roads are tragic. the infrastructure is falling apart. The architecture is a mixture of bleak soviet era slum and The restaurant service is very slow. The government is corrupt as hell. But at least, unlike western countries, the bureaucrats are practical rather than self-righteous about their corruption.

    Oh. Did I mention the people are so beautiful they’re like watching a living art form?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-24 02:32:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2014/05/is-technical-analysis-completely.html?m=1

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-23 06:01:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : INSULT “He has a face that has not been disfigured by in

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : INSULT

    “He has a face that has not been disfigured by intelligence.”

    Translation: “Он имеет лицо, которое не было обезображенные интеллектом.”

    Proper: “лицо, не обезображенное интеллектом”

    Phonetic: “litso ne obezobrazheno intellektom”

    ? lol

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-22 11:13:00 UTC

  • THEFT OUTLINE

    http://time.com/106319/heres-what-chinese-hackers-actually-stole-from-u-s-companies/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fcurious_capitalist+%28TIME%3A+Business%29CHINESE THEFT OUTLINE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-21 05:11:00 UTC

  • HIGH TIME PARENTING NOT HIGH INVESTMENT PARENTING Strange watching people in oth

    HIGH TIME PARENTING NOT HIGH INVESTMENT PARENTING

    Strange watching people in other countries raise children. I was definitely raised in the puritan protestant tradition to be an independent person as soon as possible.

    But you watch children in the states today and there is obviously something very wrong with them. Almost all of them. And then you come to a place with a traditional family like Ukraine, and watch the kids and … there isnt’ anything wrong with them. So what’s the difference?

    They aren’t constantly trying to get attention from parents who don’t want to give it to them.

    Now, it’s not high investment parenting. In fact, it’s kind of strange how LITTLE effort parents put into competitive child rearing. Instead, they just pay attention to them. A lot of attention. At home. WIth family.

    That must be what it is that Iove about this country. I think that’s it. Americans are all desperately seeking attention on their terms. Here, nobody is. They’re seeking experiences, and wealth, and opportunity. But they’re not desperate for attention. They aren’t ‘crazy’ like so many americans. They aren’t desperately trying to find meaning in political movements, in environmental movements, in different kinds of spiritualism as a means of filling that hole in their souls.

    Is it that simple?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-21 04:34:00 UTC

  • ITS NOT THAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE RUSSIAN POSITION. IT”S THAT IT’S COUNTERPROD

    ITS NOT THAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE RUSSIAN POSITION. IT”S THAT IT’S COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.

    Watching russian documentaries. (I really love russians, which is why the attack on Ukraine is making me so angry.) It is so easy to understand the Russian position in the world. Their internal needs. Their vision of the future. Their criticism of the western suicidal way of life.

    But to attack the west, and to give it excuses for militarizing, is just stupid. To use such blatant disinformation and deception, is just a stupid move. Russia is a small weak economy spread over a vast territory, and they’re surrounded. Put in had the western Right Wing eating out of his hand.

    What an idiot. It’s a tragedy. It’s like Russians can never do the smart thing no matter what opportunity sits in front of them, they do the wrong thing.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-21 02:19:00 UTC

  • STATUS AS PROPERTY? BUT PEOPLE SURE ACT LIKE IT. RIGHT? The fact that people def

    STATUS AS PROPERTY? BUT PEOPLE SURE ACT LIKE IT. RIGHT?

    The fact that people defend their philosophical positions if their self image depends upon them is only confirmation that people treat status, even self image, as their property. I think If I explain truths and falsehoods – you can’t have a property right to falsehoods – this becomes clear. Just as you can’t claim market opportunities are property – because you don’t know if they’re true or not.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-20 23:27:00 UTC

  • HELPING AUTISTIC SPECTRUM BOYS, YOUNG MEN, AND MEN. Entry into the autism spectr

    HELPING AUTISTIC SPECTRUM BOYS, YOUNG MEN, AND MEN.

    Entry into the autism spectrum is caused in utero, as a byproduct of excessive maleness – inhibiting or destroying certain brain development. This is the reason boys mature later than girls. We must overcome the brain damage, and specialize with what remains.

    Some of the drugs that assist with tolerance for autism spectrum disorders are neurogenic. they increase the rate of adaptation, although that may come at the expense of future dependency. (I don’t think we are sure.) The process is exacerbated in puberty in a second round of rapid growth and further inhibition.

    However, it does not matter what age you start to assist the development of the brain. And I suspect that if we can accelerate this process of ‘repair’ that will will see a corresponding (dramatic) increase in intelligence among males.

    Of course, experimentation of this kind is ethically problematic. But I expect that in the next century, this will be one of the most rapid avenues to human advancement.

    Interesting.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-20 08:10:00 UTC

  • DEAR KIEV Please get the government to run this: “If you want a rifle and 200 ro

    DEAR KIEV

    Please get the government to run this:

    “If you want a rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition, bring your passport and $250, take a four hour course with 100 other people, we’ll stamp your passport, and you can have an AK47 fresh out of storage. One stamp per person. Period. Training held twice a day right in the main square until people stop coming.”

    Welcome to freedom. The militia. The only guarantee of freedom a people ever has.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-19 07:56:00 UTC

  • KIEV, UKRAINE IS A LOT LIKE OTTAWA, CANADA. Three days of spring. Three days of

    KIEV, UKRAINE IS A LOT LIKE OTTAWA, CANADA.

    Three days of spring. Three days of fall. An uncomfortably hot summer. And a bitterly cold winter. I love the cold really. The heat though, makes my brain shut down. I hate it. Seattle has spring from the second week of January to the first week of july, and fall from the third week in August to the second week in december. You get just enough winter and summer to know they exist.

    I need a beach.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-19 07:52:00 UTC