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One of the reasons we still have family farms and the Old Country does not is that we prohibit absentee ownership of agricultural land. It probably helps havin

One of the reasons we still have family farms and the Old Country does not is that we prohibit absentee ownership of agricultural land. It probably helps having freedom from the special clause Veblen mentions: "absentee ownership is safe-guarded by a special clause of the American constitution". EDIT: v-integration is (don't tell the theoretical CS people; it'd ruin their fun) a practical application of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_subarray_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_subarray_problem (Kadane's is, incidentally, but a few characters of APL) Riffing on great filters: anytime I see outcomes where tiny is highly likely but the few which are not tiny are huge, I tend to suspect stochastic mechanism. (Körner has a nice chapter somewhere, IIRC "Why are we not all called Smith?")

082349872349872 2y ago
> one of the best signals that a category is investable is a previous failure with clear and actionable lessons Just about the only useful thing I think I've learned from Victor Davis Hanson* is that you don't want to buy your farm machinery retail, you want to get it at auction, from the poor schlub who just failed in the field. * shorter VDH: academia is bad because they want you to use the bathrooms when you piss
gradschoolfail 2y ago
Is this 14.x. Amendment the Goedeliamn clause lol
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Good Q. Art.5 could conceivably suffice for both Gödel and Veblen? (the century-long saga of the ERA in the Old Country makes me suspect it may be on the wrong side of DDJ 76; on the other hand, Cherryh's patterning of democracy in Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance–Union_universe#Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance–Union_universe#Societ... after the some-are-more-equal-than-others Roman model instead of "one person one vote" leads one to suspect constitutional sclerosis may well have been intentional)

082349872349872 2y ago

> one of the best signals that a category is investable is a previous failure with clear and actionable lessons Just about the only useful thing I think I've learned from Victor Davis Hanson* is that you don't want to buy your farm machinery retail, you want to get it at auction, from the poor schlub who just failed in the field. * shorter VDH: academia is bad because they want you to use the bathrooms when you piss

gradschoolfail 2y ago

Is this 14.x. Amendment the Goedeliamn clause lol

082349872349872 2y ago
Good Q. Art.5 could conceivably suffice for both Gödel and Veblen? (the century-long saga of the ERA in the Old Country makes me suspect it may be on the wrong side of DDJ 76; on the other hand, Cherryh's patterning of democracy in Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance–Union_universe#Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance–Union_universe#Societ... after the some-are-more-equal-than-others Roman model instead of "one person one vote" leads one to suspect constitutional sclerosis may well have been intentional)