Curt Doolittle

Theme: Institution

  • The Family Institution…

    [W]ithout the family we create great incentive for defectors, and we increase vastly the cost of individual housing, insurance, and sustenance and survival, That’s all. Marriage makes people wealthier by lowering costs, and creating a higher barrier to reproduction that prevents the underclasses from reproductive parasitism. So it is less important that our BEST breed a LOT, than it is for our worst not to breed even a little. IT IS LESS IMPORTANT FOR OUR BEST TO BREED A LOT THAN IT IS FOR OUR WORST NOT TO BREED EVEN A LITTLE

  • The Family Institution…

    [W]ithout the family we create great incentive for defectors, and we increase vastly the cost of individual housing, insurance, and sustenance and survival, That’s all. Marriage makes people wealthier by lowering costs, and creating a higher barrier to reproduction that prevents the underclasses from reproductive parasitism. So it is less important that our BEST breed a LOT, than it is for our worst not to breed even a little. IT IS LESS IMPORTANT FOR OUR BEST TO BREED A LOT THAN IT IS FOR OUR WORST NOT TO BREED EVEN A LITTLE

  • OUR LIBRARIAN Ramsey Mekdaschi HAS EXPANDED OUR INVENTORY OF WORKS. Register on

    OUR LIBRARIAN Ramsey Mekdaschi HAS EXPANDED OUR INVENTORY OF WORKS.

    Register on the site, then ask me for access to the library. We have pretty much everything on the reading list and more.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-14 04:14:00 UTC

  • ROUGH PERCENTAGE OF CASES OVERTURNED? For example. With Courts of Appeals, it’s

    ROUGH PERCENTAGE OF CASES OVERTURNED?

    For example.

    With Courts of Appeals, it’s not so important that judges be approved so much as that judges are prohibited from judging after some (small) number of losses of appeal. I don’t like entry requirements, but exit prohibitions are epistemologically sound. You don’t want to be a judge on a matter that will be overturned.

    If I remember correctly, about 10% of cases are not settled and must be adjudicated. In very round numbers something like 40% of trial cases go to appeal, and something like 15% of them are overturned. So of 1000 cases, 100 cases that reach judgement, 40 go to appeal, and 6 are overturned. There are a lot of variables in there and this overstates it a bit, but for the purposes of a broad overview of the american legal process thats good enough. So if you choose to go to court, at the other end of 1000 cases, 6 get overturned. that’s half a percent.

    I would guess that if we made the law much clearer, that the number would drop to the statistically insignificant.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-11 10:29:00 UTC

  • THE COURTS ARE FAR BETTER THAN YOU THINK. Well, you know, ***courts are not free

    THE COURTS ARE FAR BETTER THAN YOU THINK.

    Well, you know, ***courts are not free of deceit, wishful thinking, stupidity, bias, and error for the simple reason that they are populated by people.*** That is the virtue of the jury and judge system. Twelve jurors reduces the probability of rendering idiocy dramatically.

    I have nothing but burning hatred for the federal government, and I think that the rule of law has been destroyed by the democratic legislature, the tyrannical presidency, judicial activism, judicial and review.

    But I have a little more faith in my fellow americans, that if provided with the tools of acquittal, nullification, and conviction, and the the simplicity of Natural Law, that they will render a great judgement under all but the most extreme circumstances. And should judges be allowed if not required to specialize even extreme circumstances would improve. And if judges could be chosen rather than assigned then that would improve further. This would create a market for judges. Appeals would manage the problem of whether rule of law was violated or not.

    I find that many laws the judges are asked to enforce – credit law, family law, regulatory fines and costs, and other bits of nonsense – are objectively immoral. But if judges were given strict construction, and natural law, and nothing could override this but contract, then I think that all would be fine.

    Judges and the law are not so much the problem as the ability of the state to legislate and regulate as an insurer of last resort over the objections of the people who are regulated.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-11 10:09:00 UTC

  • The guys are kicking it. Kirill seems not to like it when I issue these because

    The guys are kicking it. Kirill seems not to like it when I issue these because he thinks I’m signing him up for more, but the real reason I’m doing this is so that people who care know what’s going on now that we’re very close to finished. So anything I say here is my fault and he and the team are innocent. 🙂

    Left on the table:

    I don’t know about this first one. (I am trying not to bother them on the weekend) I’m not sure if the ‘sprint accounting’ is done or working or not. That means, that once you start a deliverable or project we track additions and subtractions and changes to tasks and estimates. This allows us to produce an accurate burndown chart and metrics.

    Now Oversing treats every week as an operational sprint that you forecast and measure the results of. (I won’t go into why right now.) The Forecast system isn’t quite complete because of the workflow control in the UI or the tracking of additions and removals like the sprints (i am not sure about the workflow yet). They haven’t been able to get to it. This operational tempo is the key to using Oversing to manage your business, while at the same time training your people to plan and review what they accomplished.

    The same problem with controlling the accounting period (I cut the time period management function for v1, but we’ll put it all on one ‘dashboard’ in a later version.

    Progress bars aren’t updating on the schedule panel.

    The main reports. I’ve been overestimating the number that we need and it’s really closer to a dozen at most.

    The one “ouch” that I know is going to have to delay for a bit; showing all the appointments (reservations) on the gantt chart so that the pm can tell what is scheduled and what not.

    Also some UI nits on the Responsibilities (Inbox) Panel.

    The rest of the issues are usability related nits but will not prevent us from getting users working with the product.

    Gotta thank our guys they are doing amazing things during the holidays under duress.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 10:47:00 UTC

  • LONG AMERICAN WORK HOURS? WHY? Lack of hierarchy. Extreme information gathering.

    LONG AMERICAN WORK HOURS? WHY?

    Lack of hierarchy. Extreme information gathering. Unnecessary Negotiating.

    Would we change less sovereignty and more hierarchy for more time?

    I kind of doubt it.

    (I’m tying this behavior to loneliness. work socialization is a vent.)

    Conversely, europeans who are far more provincial than we are (really) for all their criticism of our rural culture, would not. Because they don’t need socialization as much as we do.

    American Low Attention parenting + Low Attention Schooling = High Attention Workplaces.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:24:00 UTC

  • My experience is that most purchasing departments exist to cause vendors to fail

    My experience is that most purchasing departments exist to cause vendors to fail, engage in political positioning, and/or rent seeking. A good purchasing department functions like a lawyer who is too busy: they make sure you don’t hurt yourself. But a young lawyer trying to prove himself, or a purchasing agent trying to prove himself is something very different. They create problems by trying to create value. I was too naive about big business in my early life. The optimum behavior is to find out what makes the agent successful and give him what he wants even if it is bad for his business. I find this immoral. I want to give organizations what they need regardless of whether they understand it or not. This is most visible in the construction industry where the architects and primary contractors do not possess the knowledge to construct the building, only the suppliers do. But purchasing engages in all sorts of schemes to get reduced prices then trap vendors into bankruptcy by enforcing bids made without sufficient information. And while construction may be the most corrupt field in this regard outside of state dependent contractors, and then state employees – and their corruption the reason for the existence of most code and regulation – the same thing happens at CocaCola, Nabisco, Comcast, Dell, ATT, Intel, Microsoft (less so – they have management problems instead) and dozens more I could name (and not TMobile in my experience). Running a moral business takes more effort but it almost always ends up in your favor in the long term.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 03:43:00 UTC

  • ***When human capital is the only remaining marginal difference, then the cultur

    ***When human capital is the only remaining marginal difference, then the culture of one’s organization, and the genetic distribution of talents, and the deployment and utilization of talents, is the only remaining competitive advantage.***

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 10:09:00 UTC

  • THE NECESSITY, UTILITY, AND PREFERENCE IN INSTITUTIONS NECESSARY (NON DISCRETION

    THE NECESSITY, UTILITY, AND PREFERENCE IN INSTITUTIONS

    NECESSARY (NON DISCRETIONARY)

    Science and Natural Law (Necessity)

    Defense (military) and Militia

    Judiciary(dispute resolution) and Sheriff (enforcement)

    Treasury (store) and Auditors (weights and measures)

    UTILITARIAN (VOLUNTARY)

    The Voluntary Organization of Production: Finance, Banking, Industry, Entrepreneurship, Craftsmanship, Distribution, Trade and Consumption.

    The Voluntary Organization of Reproduction: Family.

    PREFERENTIAL (LUXURIES)

    Academy(education production),

    Government (commons production),

    Hospital (healthcare production)

    Church(insurance provision),

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-07 09:32:00 UTC