Curt Doolittle

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  • ON MESSAGE: MERITOCRACY MATTERS. ELITES EXIST

    http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft.htmSTAYING ON MESSAGE: MERITOCRACY MATTERS. ELITES EXIST.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 11:18:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIAN TERMINOLOGY QUESTION (Freedom vs Liberty) Is it just my own selectio

    LIBERTARIAN TERMINOLOGY QUESTION

    (Freedom vs Liberty)

    Is it just my own selection bias in action, or has the term FREEDOM been sufficiently appropriated as to mean “Positive Freedom and liberty” and LIBERTY such that it currently means “Negative Freedom and liberty”?

    It’s too bad we LIBERTARIANS don’t have such energetic literary activists who can put together a campaign to ‘reconstruct’ the meanings of liberty and freedom the way the marxists have, and by doing so appropriated our terminology: via editing, shaming and critique.

    LIBERTY IS DETERMINED BY

    1) The available means of production.

    2) The impact of the means of production on reproduction (family)

    3) The allocation of property rights between individual, family and commons to suit production and reproduction.

    4) The Freedoms and Duties we grant each other according to those rights, and the flexibility of altering those relations in response to changes in the means of production.

    5) The degree of rent-seeking (corruption) by leaders of the hierarchy or network of organizations that resolve conflicts and facilitate investments (ownership or government).

    6) The degree of contribution by individuals willingly paid to the extended family (commons) in exchange for status which increases their opportunities for mating, experience, and opportunity.

    THE STATUS ECONOMY – THE OTHER INVOLUNTARY APPROPRIATION

    (Government members obtain status as well as compensation and earners do not obtain status OR compensation. The need is to create status signals such that the earners are willing to contribute to the commons of their extended family. If instead, high tax payers were publicly identified and given political voice, if not political vote, then the world would be a very different place. But politicians fear this fact. And to some degree, the corrupt on both sizes are protected by their anonymity. Imagine a state of the union meeting where the top 500 taxpayers instead of 500 elected politicians, were required to give their opinions on the state of the union. )

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 09:58:00 UTC

  • S.E.P. ENTRY IS A TRAVESTY OF CONFUSION– There is no correspondence with NECESS

    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/–THIS S.E.P. ENTRY IS A TRAVESTY OF CONFUSION–

    There is no correspondence with NECESSITY in this article. We are silent on the most important topic of our times: that is, that liberty is necessarily dependent upon property rights, and that is all.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 09:58:00 UTC

  • COGNITIVE BIASES OF THE EMPIRICAL FIELDS? (question) What is the difference in t

    http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft.htmTHE COGNITIVE BIASES OF THE EMPIRICAL FIELDS?

    (question)

    What is the difference in the the cognitive biases of the different disciplines?

    1) Engineering and engineers

    2) Computer science and computer scientists,

    3) Economics and economists (statistics)

    4) Physics and physicists

    5) Mathematics and mathematicians?

    How would you stack-rank these five by:

    i) The weight given to understanding of human hubris vs human rationality?

    ii) The use of obscurant versus operational language

    iii) The use of platonist versus naturalistic language.

    iv) The requirement that people adapt to new knowledge, versus adapt technology to suit the needs and wants of people?

    v) The tendency to favor statist versus libertarian solutions?

    ON IQ

    Now, we have to understand some variations in the data. Mostly it’s a hierarchy of IQ. But Economists usually skew lower than the other disciplines because a) they are paid less, and b) the criteria for what is called an economics degree varies a lot. (It is very hard to make less than 100K as a computer scientist. It is very easy to make 150K. And not difficult to make 200K.) Given the damned rigor of the discipline I find this sort of thing interesting.

    DISCLAIMER

    I am educated as a fine artist, in Art Theory. (The philosophy of art and art history). Essentially as an art critic. Art just isn’t generally good enough to critique any more. 🙂 Although the art-craft movement is still creative and beautiful. 🙂 The movie business is the great sucking sound for artistic talent in America. And art has become a lower middle class occupation with an upper proletarian work force. It is not in the least bit aristocratic.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 09:43:00 UTC

  • USA IS NOT MORE MEDICALLY INNOVATIVE THAN UK OR GERMANY. It’s just a lot bigger.

    http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/would-universal-healthcare-in-america-stifle-innovation-no-it-wouldnt/THE USA IS NOT MORE MEDICALLY INNOVATIVE THAN UK OR GERMANY.

    It’s just a lot bigger. The USA is the largest HI-IQ country, with the largest distribution of intellectuals.

    –ALL THAT MATTERS IS THE SMART FRACTION.–

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 09:09:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.stephenhicks.org/2013/11/02/kolakowski-on-leftist-responsibility/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 07:10:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-02 16:40:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared an album: HALLOWEEN make-up

    Curt Doolittle shared an album: HALLOWEEN make-up.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-02 16:34:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-01 12:20:00 UTC

  • OK. After the crazy party it’s back to serious work today. 🙂 (oversing) Feature

    OK. After the crazy party it’s back to serious work today. 🙂

    (oversing)

    Features on deck:

    – Searching and saving the Workspace

    – The Workspace layout (Which “columns” to view)

    – The Query (what stuff to get)

    – The Filter (what stuff to display)

    – Serving six Workspace models

    – Individual Contributor (my workspace)

    – Team Contributors: (Team Workspace)

    – Ticket Manager (streams in detail)

    – Traffic Manger (multiple small projects in detail)

    – Project Manager / Agile Lead (One Project in detail)

    – Delivery Manager (all projects in any given organization)

    – Deliverables (for small projects, spec work etc.)

    – Creative Briefs

    – Work Orders

    – Statements of Work

    (text templates for simple things, or references to contracts)

    – Requirements “type”

    – Test Cases “type”

    – Ideas “type”

    – Creating and Saving Estimates

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-01 05:37:00 UTC