Thoughts

An Archive of sketches developing ideas.

Flashlights, Power Grids, Institutions of Calculation, Pride and Human Frailty

The difference between the schools of quantitative and behavioral of economics consists largely in which errors they choose to accept in furthering the utility of their craft. Each of these

Simplicity Is a Relative Measure, Not A Test Of Truth

A left-leaning blog-squatter on Economist’s View repeatedly makes requests for simplistic reasoning, thereby making his level of understanding, that by which all rhetoric should be judged: a measure which is

From The Private Sector: We Don’t Need Stimulus We Need Credit

1) From the private sector: We don’t need stimulus we need credit. Banks simply wont lend. While the process of correcting bank balance sheets is underway, that same process must

Response To Economists View: One Way To Look At The Bush Years

RE: “One way to look at the Bush years is that job growth was lousy so the Fed (and the government policies) subsidized construction jobs by creating a housing bubble.

Comparing Medical, Technical, Educational, and Political Testing Methodologies

There was a great deal of research and discourse on technology in medicine when computing systems began to enter the operating room in the 1990’s. In particular, in the use

A Response To Krugman’s Petty Poke At Prestidigitators

Paul Krugman wrote today, poking fun at prestidigitators in the financial sector. As the most public advocate of forcible redistribution, I thought it was appropriate to poke back. The understanding

Credit Funded Jobs Programs

Another response from “A Shaky Start” on Economists View RE: “One way to look at the Bush years is that job growth was lousy so the Fed (and the government

A Speech On The State And Violence

I’m going to say something. It will only take a moment. And my time is at least as valuable if not more so than the state’s, the court’s, or that

A Note On Argument – A Substitution For Violence

Paine, We have free speech, logic and rhetoric so that we may make arguments, not a polysyllabic variant of ten year old girls trading insults. I realize that you may

All This From Gorbachev – The Silly Reign On Economists View

Economists View members are notoriously leftist, and rely on name calling and weak arguments with political bias on a regular basis. There are a number of squatting regulars and they

All This From Gorbachev – The Silly Reign On Economists View

Economists View members are notoriously leftist, and rely on name calling and weak arguments with political bias on a regular basis. There are a number of squatting regulars and they

Surgery went much better than the first time. Feel great. Thanks to everyone for

Surgery went much better than the first time. Feel great. Thanks to everyone for support. Source date (UTC): 2009-10-14 09:44:00 UTC

Gaddaffi is indeed a sad spectacle. But in the west we separate words and deeds.

Gaddaffi is indeed a sad spectacle. But in the west we separate words and deeds. This isn’t a universal perception. And it works for him. Source date (UTC): 2009-09-27 13:23:11

Positioning Political Philosophies

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Whether you call us Aristotelians, Machiavellians, Nietzscheians, or some other label, is immaterial – save to say that in doing so you attempt to make equal a difference

An Environmental Software Company?

In May, one of my business partners asked me to rescue a bit of software development that was a joint venture between a prominent politician’s environmental activism foundation, a very

OK. Why is it that I cannot find a copy of Snowleopard anywhere in Redmond or Be

OK. Why is it that I cannot find a copy of Snowleopard anywhere in Redmond or Bellevue? I mean, it’s ridiculous. (Conspiracy Bait) Source date (UTC): 2009-09-02 16:19:27 UTC Original

I received more Twitter subscribers in response to one bit of negative gossip th

I received more Twitter subscribers in response to one bit of negative gossip than for any of my articles except for the one on tattoos. Source date (UTC): 2009-08-20 15:43:05

Editing a video. Why can’t I get data off a camera and onto a drive more easily?

Editing a video. Why can’t I get data off a camera and onto a drive more easily? USB2? I mean, c’mon. Sigh. Source date (UTC): 2009-04-26 13:40:00 UTC

The general consensus among economists is emerging that no stimulus will work (a

The general consensus among economists is emerging that no stimulus will work (and ours has likely been wasted) and that we are approaching an L-shaped recession. That means that we’re

Trying to figure out when the economy bottoms, followed by job loss bottom follo

Trying to figure out when the economy bottoms, followed by job loss bottom followed by recovery. Still come out with four years post bottom Source date (UTC): 2009-04-02 22:45:18 UTC