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by crux_ 17y ago
It's not satire: it is metaphor. Post-modernism (in the sense of this type of thing, anyway) arose and mostly deals with literature, where imagery, symbolism, and metaphor are the main carriers of meaning rather than spelling things out lit
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by crux_ 17y ago
I don't know if the layering is all that clear. If you're a believer in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (or just agree with Orwell's Politics & The English Language), then it follows that your ability to think clearly is somewhat mutually
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by crux_ 17y ago
The problem with ideology is that it generates beliefs, convictions, and orthodoxies -- not hypotheses. As an anecdote (and counter-example), I grew up in Wyoming, where there are no laws requiring union recognition, in a school district wi
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by crux_ 17y ago
Well, let's see here. I'd say that the largest concrete problem to me is our thoroughly anti-education culture. And the largest meta-problem is that we have yet to discover a good way to measure the success of various approaches (and no sha
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by crux_ 17y ago
The problem? A little less ideology and a little more clear thinking, please. You could certainly convince me that unions are a problem, but setting them up as the source of all badness is just your way of scoring points for your politi
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by crux_ 17y ago
?????????????? That's it? Sign up for one of the millions of free blog/file hosts. Don't bother with a real domain name. Google pages seems nice.
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by crux_ 17y ago
... On the other hand, a lot of the appeal in such a life is in the fact there are still lots of unique mom and pop stores, often with generations of history, still in existence...
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by crux_ 17y ago
Random anecdote: I interned, back in the day, at a consulting firm working w/ their website; at the time -- and perhaps still? -- they worked in gender-segregated areas when on site. More randomness for the hell of it: I read the Yiddish Po
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by crux_ 18y ago
I won't dispute that the regulatory environment encouraged or discouraged certain actions, but that is very different from forcing anything. I can encourage you to smoke (say, by subsidizing tobacco), but that's hardly the same as forcing y
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by crux_ 18y ago
No, these (specific) discussions are not in a context of "what do we do?" I think it encourages clearer thinking to tackle one thing at a time. Allow me to quote myself in the first sentence of my first post in this thread: > As counter
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by crux_ 18y ago
Another misdirection. I did not refer to AIG specifically as toxic, risky, or over-leveraged, but to many (the majority?) of Wall Street's recent decisions. Also, it is completely false. Banks only "needed" to buy bond insurance from AIG
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by crux_ 18y ago
"we need more regulators" When did I make this argument? No, it is a convenient strawman for you, and a way of changing the topic away from "Who is to blame for the stupid, stupid, stupid decisions on Wall Street and their rather disastrous
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by crux_ 18y ago
> Actually, it's not. Unregulated Wall St has fared far better. Like Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs? > It means that you can't say that regulation solves alcohol poisoning. I never claimed this. What it does mean is t
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by crux_ 18y ago
> The difference is that banks are free to ignore free cocaine. They're not free to ignore regulators. Misdirection. The toxic, risky, highly over-leveraged speculation they engaged in was certainly voluntary.
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by crux_ 18y ago
"Easily"? I suspect that since C#3 offers lambda expressions that you'd need to use something close to (although probably different from) full H-M inference... in fact, it seems like it may need to be nearly as complicated as Scala's type i
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by crux_ 18y ago
> Regulatory capture is a consequence of regulation, so its effects are problems with regulation. My point was that if we are looking for people to blame, whether we chose to point the finger at Wall St or at "regulators," it turns out
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by crux_ 18y ago
Without needing to dive into the details, I don't think it would change things a bit if "regulators" were offering free cocaine to anyone who asked for it: it would not somehow absolve the junkies of the responsibility for their choice to s
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by crux_ 18y ago
> 'm not sure how making the argument that blaming regulators who created the incentives and environment for an industry to act against their long term self interest is inconsistent with being libertarian. Perhaps a metaphor will help y
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by crux_ 18y ago
Further counterpoints... (warning; I'm a touch sleepy). First, there is the primary issue, severely undermining almost everything you write, of "encouraging" vs "doing". (I'm making an assumption here:) It's really quite ironic to see a li
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by crux_ 18y ago
As counterpoints, first consider that blame for the current situation and the proper next steps are two separate issues. The myopic (to put it gently) decisions made by "Wall street" most certainly are the single largest contributing factor
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by crux_ 18y ago
Hindley-Milner is easy, as long as you throw either subtyping or recursion out the window. ;) (IIRC) (Doesn't C# basically use HM to support the var keyword, anyway? That's what I'd do.)
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by crux_ 18y ago
? really ? First, looking at the examples, it doesn't seem to be restricted to exact images, not by a long shot. Second, your approach is hopelessly naive. ;) Consider: rescaling, re-encoding using a lossy image format, color adjustments, a
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by crux_ 18y ago
http://www.robmar.net/TexDiff/ Handy!
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by crux_ 18y ago
It has scroll bars! :)
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by crux_ 18y ago
Greenspun's suggestion is not a serious one. It is certainly earnest , but it is also impractical to the point of being laughable. Can you imagine an politician, of any ideology, seriously taking this suggestion and lasting more than a few
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by crux_ 18y ago
I'm simply pointing out that the existence of successful investors doesn't itself carry any information about why they might be successful. As for the rest, well, yes, it is apples and oranges. What hypotheses does entrepreneurship make abo
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by crux_ 18y ago
Likewise, if I were to roll a die 100,000 times there will likely be a nonzero number of periods where I roll a 4 or better over 20 times in a row! (Numbers made up because this is arguing on the internet.) Entrepreneurship isn't even a pse
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by crux_ 18y ago
IMHO the real failure is that Libertarian Types cannot seem to articulate a vision for the future. The linked article explicitly hearkens back to the 19th century; almost every libertarian proposal I have seen consists of nothing more subst
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by crux_ 18y ago
Sunday is a good day for debating on the internet... So, here's what is probably an unpopular thesis, but one I believe is true: Libertarianism is a convenient fantasy but nothing more. Libertarians somehow believe that "free markets" and "
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by crux_ 18y ago
Take it in the spirit it was offered.... namely, that of post-debate talking headism. Something of a communicable disease, I fear. ;)

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