ArkyBeagle

7 ms·

1.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
And ( to my ear ) the always reliable Dean Baker addresses "the money thing" in "Rigged". Scott Sumner has also written at length on the subject. There are two mandates to the Fed - price stability and ( Humphrey-Hawkins
2.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
New houses are built to what I consider exorbitant prices. People finance 4x annual income or more. The thing being sold is really the debt instrument, not the house itself.
3.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
That's mostly housing, which was financed by debt.
4.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It kind-of is magic - that is how money gets created.
5.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I dunno. I think that at least globalization - as in the easily agreed on definition of globalization - is declining. After all, the various China seas seem to be becoming a Chinese lake, if we can project the construction of sand islands s
6.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
All court proceedings are about finding fault.
7.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
An anedcote: my boss was PM for building a new building and his claim was that offices with sheetrock and (steel) studs was cheaper than cubes. We still had cubes. Because you have to have cubes. And of course the Edifice Complex held - we
8.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Real professional soldiers come from the Service Academies and while they're different from Gates & Zuckerberg, they are among our nations finest people, at least when hubris doesn't get 'em.
9.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's interesting - Johnny Cash was a SIGINT operative in Europe in the 1950s. I mean headsets and notepads. That's probably where he got a taste for amphetamines, at least one biographer thinks. "Here, take this, son. It&#x2
10.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
At least in the US, right now, all the hi-tech death machines get maintained by contractors or civilian employees of the services.
11.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
The press is being undermined by its economics. Trump just smelled weakness and attacked.
12.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's not myth, it's narrative. Antebellum slavery and Jim Crow were narratives[1]. Even worse, they're narratives based on phrenological "science". [1] see also a novel "The Klansman", the Word of that nar
13.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Can anyone shed light on why so many Stoic societies/clubs seem to be essentially religious? The Stoics I have read do not seem to be particularly religious nor of any particular creed - some were polytheist, some were monotheist, some
14.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
The important thing to remember is that this caring is anomalous. I personally find Space Does Not Care to be quite liberating.
15.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Those are slowly being identified as artifacts of trauma[1], at least the pathological cases are. SO imagine how prevalent they were in the Classical world. [1]] I don't hold that un-self-aware people are pathological...
16.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I don't think Judaism has ever been a closed faith. I may have missed some interval of time where it was only by birthright or something. This being said, I don't think conversion is sought as it is in Islam and Christianity.
17.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
It's dualistic. On the material plane, I read it as "don't be entropic."
18.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
And thank you for your thoughts as well. Your last sentence caps it; what I am saying is that there is a broken tool in the toolbox - we should be able to make profit an ethical value - as an estimator of how much good we do on the world
19.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
All those things are much easier to use as values than profit, since profit may include some fairly innocent or some fairly egregious rent-seeking. There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of that - but with one caution - one must still b
20.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Since we cannot disentangle rents from non-rents profits, I doubt there will ever be a coherent set of ideas on the subject.
21.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I wonder then how we classify a John Muir? Seems "deep green" to me. I think his oeuvre came from the Romantics. I am not doing Curtis' thesis justice; you'd have to see the ( freely available, SFAIK ) film. He doesn&#x2
22.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I solved that problem by getting married in my musician phase :)
23.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
You have me at a loss- I'd say there are certainly alternatives. If I had to guess, I'd say most go that way, but that's purely a guess. Good point though - neither of them tried to self-learn in high school.
24.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Yes. And it was her, her ... calculus of status.
25.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
That's why I asked "If". Apparently, based on the existence of this thread, there's interest in that. :) It may also expedite the creation of useful products. Why would we consider there is inevitably a tradeoff? There&#
26.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
Bluntly, computing was a low-status field. There isn't "computing envy", there is "physics envy". Never mind that computing is critical path to all fields now... As status has risen, it's become more status-ey.
27.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
The problem isn't gender per se; the problem is how we define success and how leadership works. We're up to our neck in all sort of hubris sprung from the cultural emphasis on ambition at any cost. As Charlie Sheen might say, &quo
28.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
As anecdata, one daughter felt that pursuing computing wasn't socially acceptable ( she was a cheerleader and all ) and another felt the first instructor was an abject misogynist. Perhaps women find better things to do :) I'm star
29.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
During the Cold War, if one showed up in one of the weedout classes for EE, you got the "look to your left & right. One of you will not survive this process" lecture. EE was very seriously a defense discipline and the values
30.
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
I raised two girls who found the "alpha geek" phenomenon totally repugnant. One is heading back into a CS degree in her thirties; the other went bio and is an entrepreneur. I have to wonder if the chasing away is not to their bene

More ›