Curt Doolittle

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  • I look like a junkie. Both my arms have black and blue ‘tracks’ in them from the

    I look like a junkie. Both my arms have black and blue ‘tracks’ in them from these freaking IV’s. But at least I can breathe. It’s awesome. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 06:41:00 UTC

  • PROPERTY RIGHTS QUESTION? Can anyone explain to me why we assume that we have a

    PROPERTY RIGHTS QUESTION?

    Can anyone explain to me why we assume that we have a right to anticipated natural rates of interest? In other words, why is non-diluted money-proper (commodity money, private money or fiat money), and the expansion of purchasing power of such money, due to increases in demand, a property right?

    (Smart people only please. ie: no empty moralisms.)

    I might be loopy on asthma meds right now but I am trying to resolve this question once and for all. And I can’t find a reason, stated as property rights, why we have the right to privatize increases in value of money, or to profit from the shortage of money.

    Thanks

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 06:27:00 UTC

  • SIMPLE ARGUMENT WHY WE APPEAR TO BE ALONE —“This cosmic time scale for the evo

    http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.3381.pdfTHE SIMPLE ARGUMENT WHY WE APPEAR TO BE ALONE

    —“This cosmic time scale for the evolution of life has important consequences: (1) life took a long time (ca. 5 billion years) to reach the complexity of bacteria; (2) the environments in which life originated and evolved to the prokaryote stage may have been quite different from those envisaged on Earth; (3) there was no intelligent life in our universe prior to the origin of Earth, thus Earth could not have been deliberately seeded with life by intelligent aliens; (4) Earth was seeded by panspermia; (5) experimental replication of the origin of life from scratch may have to emulate many cumulative rare events; and (6) the Drake equation for guesstimating the number of civilizations in the universe is likely wrong, as intelligent life has just begun appearing in our universe.”—

    The “We might be the first” argument isn’t irrational.

    Wouldn’t it be nice if we could become ‘the ancients”?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 06:09:00 UTC

  • PROPAGANDA NOW MAINSTREAM

    http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-s-top-20-lies-about-ukraineRUSSIAN PROPAGANDA NOW MAINSTREAM

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-07 12:11:00 UTC

  • Next is negative interest rates. After that we’ll hear mainstream modern monetar

    Next is negative interest rates.

    After that we’ll hear mainstream modern monetary.

    I’m all for MMT if we bypass the banks.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-07 12:01:00 UTC

  • SPLIT CURRENCIES —“A poster writes: Split the currency. 1. International Trade

    SPLIT CURRENCIES

    —“A poster writes: Split the currency.

    1. International Trade Dollars

    2. National Dollars

    3. State Dollars.

    That way the success of a State is for the Benefit of the State. International Money Giveaway schemes do not crash the National Dollar. Those who want to inflate their Dollar, will not take others down with them.”—

    You know, the amount of economic knowledge that the average libertarian has is utterly amazing. I don’t mean the “moral NAPpers” but the rest.

    I get so buried that I take it for granted. And I forget that for most people simple economics is indistinguishable from chemistry, formal logic, or some other symbolic language.

    But it’s the one they most depend upon. And they’re ignorant of it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-07 11:49:00 UTC

  • Aphorisms are informationally dense. But argumentatively parsimonious. And they

    Aphorisms are informationally dense. But argumentatively parsimonious.

    And they are very hard to craft. They must ring true.

    The secret is that they must be well constructed sets.

    As well constructed sets, they are self evident.

    And composing well constructed sets, requires knowledge of construction.

    Not mere knowledge of use.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-07 05:06:00 UTC

  • I am an anti-statist, and as such a libertarian, not an immoralist and thus a li

    I am an anti-statist, and as such a libertarian, not an immoralist and thus a libertine.

    Block and Rothbard are libertines.

    Just how it is.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-07 04:13:00 UTC

  • “You have given me so many other legs up, maybe you can give me one more leg up?

    “You have given me so many other legs up, maybe you can give me one more leg up?”

    Generous charity merely serves to attract parasites.

    Why do I never learn?

    Never show people that you have money. Living outside the states has served to teach me this lesson which I failed to learn living in the states.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 21:59:00 UTC

  • THERE IS ONLY ONE. ALL ELSE IS FALLACY. 1) There is only one means of expressing

    THERE IS ONLY ONE. ALL ELSE IS FALLACY.

    1) There is only one means of expressing the truth: operationally. All else is fallacy: they are mere analogies.

    2) There is only one set of numbers: the natural numbers. All else is a fallacy: they are mere functions.

    3) There is only one cause of prohibited action, and property rights: the prohibition on free riding (involuntary transfer, imposition of costs). All else is fallacy. Justification of argument, and nothing more.

    4) There is only one test of moral action: fully informed, voluntary, productive exchange, backed by warranty. All else is a fallacy: justification for theft and nothing more.

    5) There is only one law and that is property. All else is a fallacy: they are mere commands.

    6) There is only one moral form of government: anarchy. All else is fallacy: they are mere justifications for the failure of sufficient articulation of property and property rights.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 11:39:00 UTC