Curt Doolittle

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  • The ui-design bias of mobiles is causing a delay in the design bias of informati

    The ui-design bias of mobiles is causing a delay in the design bias of information density on the desktop made possible by increased screen resolution (see Retina or 5k).

    Now it’s FASHIONABLE to produce UI designs for mobile using low information density. And low information density makes for ease of use. But that does not mean that low information density is an intrinsic good – it isn’t. Its a contextual good. Information density places fewer demands on memory, and allows for pattern recognition to work effortlessly. Progressive complexity is the holy grail. That is: incrementally exposing complexity to users as they learn.

    In Oversing you can just peek through a little window, or have an enormously rich view of your world. But that enormously rich view would overwhelm you day one. Just as the simplest view would frustrate you at day five-hundred.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-28 01:56:00 UTC

  • ACCOUNTABLE AND UNACCOUNTABLE TRUTH (worth repeating) The analytic and cosmopoli

    ACCOUNTABLE AND UNACCOUNTABLE TRUTH

    (worth repeating)

    The analytic and cosmopolitan concept of truth (including Popper’s truth), like the levantine pseudo-truth it arose from, is an UNACCOUNTABLE concept of truth.

    Whereas the Indo-European truth, refers to testimony given between warriors whose life or death depends upon the veracity of that testimony. Etymologically, “Tréw” means testimony ‘like an oak”: and therefore, ACCOUNTABLE and WARRANTIED truth given via the spoken word.

    Conversely, “true” for cosmopolitans, Jews and Muslims means ‘the mind of god’. Not ‘that which I am accountable for speaking truthfully’.

    This was the mistake of the analytic movement’s distraction as well. They tried to improve on truth and found all they could achieve was tautology, rather than spending a century on SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY. Popper sensed this, mises sensed it, but they failed. Just as the christian europeans failed, because they assumed truth and assumed that the problem was logical instead of truthful.

    This is why the 20th century was such a failure: the operationalist, intuitionists, and praxeologists all FAILED.

    So, now, that is my job. That’s our job. That’s the purpose of Propertarianism, Operationalism, and Testimonial Truth: to restore the purpose of philosophy to the SPEAKING of truth – not how to merely investigate the phenomenon of the physical word. Or not how to persuade people without unaccountable for it.

    Discovering the truth is just labor, and doing it morally. Speaking the truth is a skill that must be mastered: Speaking operationally. Giving truthful testimony.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 11:45:00 UTC

  • FROM ELI HARMAN —“People demonstrate that they are willing, sometimes, to go s

    FROM ELI HARMAN

    —“People demonstrate that they are willing, sometimes, to go so far as to kill to prevent the disclosure of certain information.

    ***In so doing, they demonstrate that information to be their property, that which they consider to be their own and that they will fight to defend.***

    The matter then becomes merely a contest as to who shall prevail, those who wish to prohibit blackmail or those who wish to perpetrate it.

    But there is no reason to suppose the latter will win. Blackmail is not a productive behavior but a parasitic one, engaged in by parasitic people. And what someone stands to lose from blackmail generally increases in proportion as they produce.

    I’ll take their side both for principled as well as pragmatic reasons.

    “—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 09:34:00 UTC

  • In the Ethics of Liberty, Rothbard asserts that blackmail is ethical and deducib

    In the Ethics of Liberty, Rothbard asserts that blackmail is ethical and deducible from property rights.

    What is the Propertarian view of blackmail?

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    http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/sixteen.asp

    “As in all voluntary exchanges, both parties benefit from such an exchange: Smith receives money, and Jones obtains the service of Smith’s not disseminating information about him which Jones does not wish to see others possess. The right to blackmail is deducible from the general property right in one’s person and knowledge and the right to disseminate or not disseminate that knowledge. How can the right to blackmail be denied?”

    Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 09:01:00 UTC

  • Rather than seek approval or consent, offer support, kindness, affection, love,

    Rather than seek approval or consent, offer support, kindness, affection, love, and education to fellow victors. Never cede control to the immoral – which is what approval and consent give him. Spend your efforts on the true, good and beautiful. Never compromise or suffer the immoral, unethical, the deceitful, and the fool. Merely conquer, punish and ostracize the wicked.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 08:03:00 UTC

  • Kirill is a genius…. Oversing is unbelievable

    Kirill is a genius…. Oversing is unbelievable.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 07:28:00 UTC

  • Rothbardians want to convince you to obey, and to resist. I want you to learn ho

    Rothbardians want to convince you to obey, and to resist. I want you to learn how to fight …. and win. Liberty in our lifetimes.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 06:18:00 UTC

  • “The allegiance of worthless people is fleeting, uncertain, and not worth having

    –“The allegiance of worthless people is fleeting, uncertain, and not worth having. ….. But their defeat is.”–

    Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 06:05:00 UTC

  • DEFEAT NOT CONSENT I’m not seeking your approval. I’m challenging you to a fight

    DEFEAT NOT CONSENT

    I’m not seeking your approval. I’m challenging you to a fight. A duel on behalf of aristocrats, aristocracy and mankind. Your agreement is just words, an opportunity for deception, your excuse as changeable as your mood, and your promise fades with the breath that spoke it. But your defeat exists and persists, and is beyond your intention or control. So, I do not care for your worthless approval or consent. I care that others know that you are defeated, and that I defeated you.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-27 04:51:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-26 19:33:00 UTC