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(from elsewhere) Yep. Any country can be great if it first creates a good disciplined nationalist military that then produce a judiciary, that then produces a government, that then produces a market, that then funds commons. People think it’s the other way around. it isn’t. Its military on down. One step at a time.

Oct 30, 2019, 12:30 PM 1) spaces are now general purpose rather than designed for function. This makes them less amenable to artistic treatment because they have to be ‘resold’. 2) Postwar materials (steel, glass, and panel products) are not amenable to organic arts, and it’s organic arts that constitute the majority of the western…

(Editor Brandon Hayes, with multiple authors) We have some very serious issues with our economics and our economy as current: Plausible Bubbles (short list; none are ever sure, when one goes others follow or become hidden): Student Debt Credit Debt (That’s cards and lines from banks) Housing Commercial Real-estate Automobiles Healthcare State Pensions Federal Debt…

I call it Vitruvianism in honor of Davinci’s Vitruivan Man. —“Man is the System of Weights and Measures for all things Human”— But the first man to say it: —“Man is the measure of all things.”— Protagoras

—“What we like or want may not be good for us.” — Curt Doolittle Context of the original quote was that we have used a variety of techniques to generate hyper-consumption and especially conspicuous hyper consumption, and even worse, conspicuous hyper consumption of virtue signals. In other words, we may like hyper consumption but that…

  —“What we like or want may not be good for us.” –Curt Doolittle Context of the original quote was that we have used a variety of techniques to generate hyper-consumption and especially conspicuous hyper consumption, and even worse, conspicuous hyper consumption of virtue signals. In other words, we may like hyper consumption but that…

Q: Biggest programming mistakes? (from elsewhere) All my big mistakes are the same, and I remember them. I keep working when I’m too tired to keep working: So, I wrote more functionality than I needed to; I forget that I wrote something and wrote it again; I forget that I wrote it over there and…

—“It’s worth noting that universal suffrage males gave women the vote, and in 1932, it was men who supported FDR over Hoover (who women supported more). Voting used to be granted as a reward for responsibilities, as a consequence of it. Own land, pay taxes and part of the militia who keeps the country free…

  The expansion of the technique invented by usury into a group strategy for the destruction of civilizations, and the reversal of human evolution, restoring man to condition of animal. Baiting in to Hazard, by use of False Promise, Argued by Sophism, Under cover of Moral Pretense, Justified by Critique, for the purpose of profiting…

Baiting in to Hazard (certain risk); By use of False Promise (circumvention of reality); Under cover of Sophism (pilpul); Justified by Critique (lie, criticism, straw manning) Under cover of Moral Pretense (lie); Under cover of Plausible Deniability (lie); For the purpose of profiting (by harm) From consumption of accumulated assets (undermining): … truth, reason, delay…

Oct 31, 2019, 8:09 AM —“Quoting yourself?”—Chip Sills Is there some other way of demonstrating that a body of text is an excerpt from a larger body of text, thereby informing the reader that there is more to be known if desired? Is there some reason I shouldn’t disambiguate new content from repeated content? Is…

  —“Seriously, why don’t you write in sentences, the layperson can understand? Nobody, absolutely nobody wants to carry dictionary or Thesaurus around with them. Again, seriously, who is your audience?”— Seriously, why don’t you recognize that I write the same set of concepts in in essay, argument, aphorism, ‘poetic list’, table, graph, and serialized form…

1-OUTLAW false and ir-reciprocal speech, AND outlaws suppression of truthful and reciprocal speech. 2-REQUIRES all able bodied men bear arms 3-REQUIRES defense of the physical, normative, and informational commons.

—“A few groups of people – those predisposed to developing high-trust – see the current state of things and turn their efforts to the pursuit of liberty. …. All the other groups are just fighting over who gets to be overseer.”—Luke Weinhagen

  —“People are stupid. Plain and simple.”—@hunderkoch We can train them well and rule them well, train them poorly and rule them poorly, train them not and rule them as serfs at higher cost and lower productivity, and train them not and rule them as slaves at even higher cost and lower productivity. What we…

Oct 31, 2019, 11:33 AM —“There’s plenty wrong with GDP as a global measure of system performance. One of those problems is that no one has yet to come up with a better one.”—Duke Newcomb Income != balance sheet. That’s the problem. (Really). GDP P/C @ PPP = Standard of living. Change in Balance Sheet…

Oct 31, 2019, 12:48 PM ?One cannot force those of us who cannot believe to lie that we believe. One cannot force those who believe not to. It matters only to believers whether we follow the natural law in for superstitious, philosophical,or scientific reasons. Because you must defend the comforting lie by which you pay…

—“Riffing off each other creates the best teaching posts and the best learning posts… the best way to learn something is to teach it.. Thanks Curt and Bill..”—Tobias Darby Multiple overlapping King of The Hill Games – over time – rather than under time pressure – are the optimum means of teaching men, and it…

—“But I think you miss the mark somewhat here because heroism is fundamentally not about the material or Darwinian advantages.”— Heroism is a means of paying status and opportunity rather than material rewards, in exchange for directing dominance display to the production of commons. those commons may be physical, may be opportunities, may be, normative,…

by Ryan Drummond I love the fact you say the same thing in so many different ways. A. Shows you understand it PHENOMENALLY well (increases trust) B. Offers me a myriad of different ways of learning to express certain points. –“Nobody wants to carry a dictionary around with them”–Useful Idiot Well, neither do I, that’s…