Curt Doolittle

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  • I DONT GET IT So I get sick for a month and lose five pounds — and gain two vis

    I DONT GET IT

    So I get sick for a month and lose five pounds — and gain two visits to the emergency room. The only thing I can eat or drink is coca cola and soup. And I gave up on coffee.

    And suddenly my debilitating allergy to sulfites disappears.

    The only two suppressors are b12 and molybdenum. Both of which I bet are absent from cola. So did a month of not eating clear my liver or something? Was the tear in my stomach the cause? Avoiding the high sulphur content water in Canada?

    I just want to know so it doesn’t return. A life without chocolate is just too painful. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-06-12 14:23:00 UTC

  • Logical Fallacies? How about Cognitive Biases, Economic Fallacies, and the singl

    Logical Fallacies? How about Cognitive Biases, Economic Fallacies, and the single most important problem of debate: confusing preferences with truths?

    Source date (UTC): 2012-06-12 10:05:00 UTC

  • FROM: Krugmanville QUOTE: “I’m waiting for the .1% to realize that increase in d

    FROM: Krugmanville

    QUOTE: “I’m waiting for the .1% to realize that increase in demand will bring increase in earnings. The path to profit maximization does not include depression. At some point politicians and private equity firms will realize stimulating the economy is in their interests.” /QUOTE

    Curt Doolittle, Seattle WA

    It may be comforting to view one’s opposition as clueless, stupid or ignorant. But it isn’t true. This conservative strategy has been consistent since the Reagan era, when conservatives looked at demographic data and determined that it was no longer possible to work within the state, only in competition with it, in an effort to bankrupt it.

    So your argument about the .1% “realizing” something, or that they can make more money funding consumption doesn’t wash. It’s not about money. It’s about constraining the state. The .1% are ‘hired’, and empowered by the conservatives as an opposition to the intrusive state’s assault on norms. So, no one is clueless here. It’s a strategy and it’s working. And it’s going to continue to work because of demographics. Because of those demographics, polarization is a permanent property of the American empire.

    The founder’s use of majority rule assumed a dominant christian agrarian populace. It was a vehicle for preserving the power of that social order through common interest. Addition of women to the electorate undermined that dynamic. Immigration altered it. Breeding rates made it permanent. Urbanization and density preference exacerbated it. And the result is necessary polarization as one group that’s biased female uses the state and the other that’s biased male uses commerce. And nothing is going to change that dynamic other than a substantial decrease in single parenthood, and small households, or a rapid change in racial breeding rate distributions. Since those factors are unlikely to occur in an industrialized society, the polarization will be exacerbated and permanent until there is some conflict that restructures the constitution, or some innovation that renders the state less meaningful as a means of redistribution.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-06-09 10:43:00 UTC

  • FREE ACCESS TO SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

    https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/fb/petition/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQREQUIRE FREE ACCESS TO SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

    Source date (UTC): 2012-06-03 17:41:00 UTC

  • HACKED MAC LAPTOP = HACKED CREDIT CARD The saga continues. So, in the Vancouver

    HACKED MAC LAPTOP = HACKED CREDIT CARD

    The saga continues.

    So, in the Vancouver airport somehow I picked up something via either the web or email. Not sure what it could have been. But it toasted my Mac’s hard drive after stealing all my personal information.

    I backed up my drive, put a new one in, and restored it carefully, only to have it be reinfected again. Replaced that drive, then copied over only the documents from the backup.

    It took about two weeks for the credit card info to show up on the watch list of the bank, and they cancelled my card, and sent me a new one.

    It looks like the Mac universe has caught up with the windows universe. WHat is the barrier to pareto efficiency? About 20%.

    The fact that macs attract this kind of software means that mac’s have passed the tipping point. :/

    I hate spammers and hackers. When I was doing this nonsense all we cared about was leaving “Hi there”, and a little poem or rhyme in your root directory. Fun is one thing. Theft is another.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-05-23 20:53:00 UTC

  • YOU SHOULD READ: ENRICO MORETTI’S THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF JOBS I had the privilege

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2012/05/23/richard-florida-is-wrong-about-creative-cities/BOOK YOU SHOULD READ: ENRICO MORETTI’S THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF JOBS

    I had the privilege of living in Seattle during the rise and crest of Microsoft. Galleries, and playhouses, the experimental “Entros” restaurant, the expansion of the art-glass movement, the rise of seattle as metalsmithing community. The northwest painting movement imitating Z Z Wei. And today the innovation in home design is still heavily influenced by the seattle market. Microsoft gave more of its profits to employees than perhaps any company in history. And Seattle’s unique character reflects it.

    There is a difference between the Creative Class and the Innovative Class. Creativity is a luxury good. Innovation is an economic necessity that makes that creativity possible.

    The arts are a luxury good produced as a byproduct of wealth. The arts become a draw for the creative class. And the creative class improves the overall environment. But it’s industry, and in particular, industry that produces exports that makes it possible for a city to afford the arts.

    Unfortunately there is a meme or perhaps desire, within the creative fields that they are the leaders rather than followers of prosperity. During the ‘oughts’ a series of books were published heralding the new leadership of the ‘creative class’.

    And similarly, a meme among the political class, that government creates prosperity. The effect of which can be seen in the failure of large scale urban projects such as those produced by Detroit. Or the hulking travesties of the old industrial northeast. Even in Seattle, the government all but drove Boeing out of the state, in one of the greatest political vanities in history.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-05-23 09:28:00 UTC

  • ACCOMPLISHED Karl is one of the best bloggers in American economics today. He’s

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2012/05/23/welcome-to-the-new-blog/MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

    Karl is one of the best bloggers in American economics today. He’s a rare honest progressive that mixes flawlessly unbiased ‘Smithian’ analysis of the data with relentlessly consistent policy ideas without descending into the partisan quackery that’s so pervasive among the progressive writers. While I’d hoped that he’d end up on The Post or Washington Times in order to counter the NYT, where his work would more naturally affect the daily political discourse, it’s perhaps more natural a fit, and more intellectually gratifying to have him in the family, at Forbes.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-05-23 08:50:00 UTC

  • WEB SERVER DOWN? OK. Well. it turns out that naughty software did a nasty hack o

    WEB SERVER DOWN?

    OK. Well. it turns out that naughty software did a nasty hack on my .htaccess file and munged its rewrite rules. The culprit? The vendor’s auto-update program. Had to hack it back together. Not my thing really. But got it live again.

    Sigh. You can’t trust anyone these days. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-05-23 02:21:00 UTC

  • OLD FRIENDS ARE A WONDERFUL THING Had an old friend contact me today. Made my da

    OLD FRIENDS ARE A WONDERFUL THING

    Had an old friend contact me today. Made my day.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-05-23 02:17:00 UTC

  • ARGH Three pain pills last night. Turned the heat up to high. Fetal position all

    ARGH

    Three pain pills last night. Turned the heat up to high. Fetal position all night. This is getting really old. It’s got to be that infection in January. Did something to my stomach.

    Need a clear head to write legal documents and can’t do it.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-05-22 13:34:00 UTC