Month: January 2018

cities burned, works destroyed, people dead, money earned

by James Santagata Google was / is a one-trick pony, search — but it is a god-damn good fucking pony at that!! It was basically developed …

I dunno. I worked very hard on Rand in the early 90’s and there exist only two known criticisms and I’m not sure that they stand in any meaningful sense. …

Um. (a) Why do europeans (overwhelmingly) appropriate American culture? (b) Americans pay very little attention to europe other than the UK. And (c) Because while europeans are better cultured, and …

As far as I know, and the research is increasingly conclusive, your political preference is 80% genetic. Just like everything else you think and feel. The blank slate is a …

The thing about competing with FB is that it’s actually not hard. (a) performance. Every other attempt has been slow. FB is just email v2. It’s not complicated. …

For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a computer that tutors you through storytelling. It’s essentially an adventure game to teach you how to excel. …

It’s only arrogance if you’re wrong. And unwillingness to invest in education of others is not arrogance. It’s just rational choice. Most accusations of arrogance are acts of fraud – …

(I collect lists of cites and bibliographies.) Gottfredson, L. S. Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life. Intelligence 24, 79–132 (1997). Deary, I. J. et al. Genetic …

by @MartialSociety The Great Intellectual division of The West—Aristotle vs Platonism, Empiricism vs Rationalism, Naturalism vs Idealism—finds its origins in the acquisitional (worldly) conflict between those who posses …

(You know, it’s very hard to find research on Via-Negativa subjects. Books on Lying and Deceit are laughable. Books on dishonest argument are positioned as the study of error. Works …

—“men make endless informational videos, arguments, and trade false insults and true compliments. Women make selfies, give false compliments, and disapprove, shame, and ridicule anything that implies depreciation of their …

Eric Danelaw It all begins with a militia. That is what separates the west from the rest. Without concentrated production capital (flood river valleys) that ‘industrialized’ production, it was not …

You can’t have a ‘festival’ when there is no ‘us’. The left destroyed the civilization. And they wonder why we aren’t celebrating.

It was interesting to watch the Russian programmers ‘come online’. The russian mind is particularly suited to programming because it is an individual pursuit, just like the german mind is …