Curt Doolittle

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  • Me. Nope. Too Dangerous.)

    http://www.businessinsider.com/sex-is-killing-the-workplace-2010-8?IR=T(Not Me. Nope. Too Dangerous.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-16 15:05:00 UTC

  • Why is Europe a vast open air museum – and everywhere else is not? Aristocracy.

    Why is Europe a vast open air museum – and everywhere else is not?

    Aristocracy.

    Commons.

    Human Scale.

    I adore Fukuyama for many reasons. But his central argument is not quite right: all scale buys you is war.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-16 14:32:00 UTC

  • THE INDIVIDUAL (PRODUCTION) AND THE FAMILY (REPRODUCTION) The individual actor m

    THE INDIVIDUAL (PRODUCTION) AND THE FAMILY (REPRODUCTION)

    The individual actor may be the unit of calculation in any question of the productive economy. However, the family is the central organization reproduction, and the economy merely serves this purpose.

    Individualism then is merely a means of allocating incentives to the parties able to act most dynamically with the least friction in the voluntary organization of production.

    However, that is **MERELY** a question of economics, not of the reproduction that individuals in the productive economy SERVE.

    As such, the family is and always will be the central unit of calculation in any SOCIETY even if in commercial and legal matters, the individual is the central unit of calculation.

    Those groups that de-emphasize family and tribe in favor of the individual will be outbreak, out competed by those that retain the family and tribe as the central unit of society.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-16 13:32:00 UTC

  • “Before the bureaucrat, you have no obligation for grace. One does not blame the

    —“Before the bureaucrat, you have no obligation for grace. One does not blame the slave for trying to escape his master.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-16 12:20:00 UTC

  • PARASITISM Given a sufficient supply of hosts, and given the hosts survive, para

    PARASITISM

    Given a sufficient supply of hosts, and given the hosts survive, parasitism (free riding) is an effective if not luxurious evolutionary strategy.

    Human on human parasitism is not the exception in history. It is the norm.

    Market competition and the resulting eugenic reproduction are the optimum prohibition on all parasitism.

    Marxists were wrong of course. The value of one’ efforts is in the organization of voluntary production. Including the construction of property rights, as well as the production of goods and services. Labor is an irrelevant commodity whose value exists only under the voluntary structure of production.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-16 10:41:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-16 07:18:00 UTC

  • (personal) First meaningful hike since I’ve been here. My lungs loved it. So it

    (personal)

    First meaningful hike since I’ve been here. My lungs loved it. So it seems like physical activity is on the menu again – finally. My body has recovered enough now. May not seem much to others, but to me, the ability to hike again is awesome. (and necessary given the awesome food in l’viv)

    Today

    1) DONE: UI for profile completeness,

    2) DONE: UI For personality, moral, and IQ profiles.

    3) DONE: Hike “the mountain.” (No idea what the park is called but you can see all of L’viv from the top of it.

    4) STARTED: 10K foot API for central server functionality (skills, survey data,financial info.

    5) UNDONE Finish outline of Oversing Help for Andreii. Send it to him.

    6) UNDONE: Video of “Ancestral Lands”. Add talking points (takeaways). Render it. Publish it.

    If I’m lucky: (I won’t be)

    7) Banking. Just not happening…. you can only get 1K out of the banking system per person per day. I have no idea how this cash-based economy is functioning at the moment.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 13:56:00 UTC

  • Ok. This isn’t my thing. I’m just trying to look into the economics and the math

    Ok. This isn’t my thing. I’m just trying to look into the economics and the math of it. But if Ebola really can have a 42 or even 21 day incubation period, that means it’s impossible to know if you have been exposed, and so every sniffle someone gets is suspect. I know people aren’t contagious until they show symptoms, but this long a period means you can’t really isolate people, and that unless you are perfectly healthy you must stay home. I guess we could temporarily criminalize public illness for a while. But it’s almost impossible to control. And with these mortality rates it’s not like 1918 even. It’s very hard to wipe out something with these characteristics. That outbreak had only a 20% mortality rate and killed about 6% of the world population. I don’t really know enough about transmission to have an opinion, but with the extreme level of care needed, that long a a gestation period, the mortality rate, it seems economically devastating just from having to fight it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 08:57:00 UTC

  • TABOOS You know, I look at investigating taboos as intellectual honesty. And I k

    TABOOS

    You know, I look at investigating taboos as intellectual honesty. And I know that makes people a little frustrated with me. But I have to fully explore the intellectual taboos to understand their CONSTRUCTION. So, I don’t think it’s wise to avoid these subjects, as much as it is to understand how and why they are constructed so that we can develop arguments and institutions that solve the REAL PROBLEMS that taboo subjects (ideas, biases, norms) evolved to counter. You cannot solve something by pretending it’s false, or avoiding it because it’s undesirable.

    Sometimes you just need to get in there and get your hands dirty.

    (Reminds me of that woman who dissects beached whales and can’t get the small off of her for a few weeks afterward… lol).

    Most taboos exist for reasons. Good reasons. Most stereotypes are true. That does not mean we should not understand them so that we can find institutional solutions that allow us to replace A-RATIONAL taboos, with rational institutions.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 05:53:00 UTC

  • Met a new smart fellow today on Linked in of all places: Emil Suric. From Westch

    Met a new smart fellow today on Linked in of all places: Emil Suric. From Westchester. Finance. (Has good taste btw.) Just started with Deloitte. On the capital track. High reading comprehension. I think Croatian background? Not a lot of info on FB. Lucky to have found him. -Cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 04:13:00 UTC