Common Sense 318 – For Whom the Bell Trolls
by Heraclitusstudent
on 30 May 2018
Posted 6 years ago
This guy hits the nail on the head. https://www.dancarlin.com/prod Available on itune podcasts too.
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by Heraclitusstudent on 23 May 2018 9 comments, latest 6 years ago
Some of his numbers: Life expectancy: - for most of history: 30 yrs. - today 71 yrs, increasing. - In Kenya, improved by 10 yrs in the past 10 yrs. ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 11 May 2018 25 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0 "But online life creates an illusion of left-wing excess and hegemony that barely exists in the real world, at least outside of a few collegiate enclaves. Consider, for example, ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 May 2018 9 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/view "The Democratic grassroots are shaking with energy. In a series of special elections across the country, in a range of districts, Democrats have consistently outperformed results in previous elections. ...
Bloomberg: Markets Better Prepare for Stagflation
by Heraclitusstudent on 25 Apr 2018 3 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/view Imagine that: the end of assets inflation, the collapse of multiples.... wage inflation! The horror! Unfortunately I think this fear is unfounded: - technology may automate things like driving ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 25 Apr 2018 3 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/view Imagine that: the end of assets inflation, the collapse of multiples.... wage inflation! The horror! Unfortunately I think this fear is unfounded: - technology may automate things like driving ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 11 Apr 2018 17 comments, latest 6 years ago
Any aircraft carrier group buyer remorse?... Aquatic drone swarms on the way. https://www.engadget.com/2018/ www.youtube.com/watch?time_con
Testimony in front of congress
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Apr 2018 32 comments, latest 6 years ago
The usual cinema, where congressmen can look mad at something, and the witness can apologize and act humbly, before everything goes back exactly as it was before. Zucks will be ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Apr 2018 32 comments, latest 6 years ago
The usual cinema, where congressmen can look mad at something, and the witness can apologize and act humbly, before everything goes back exactly as it was before. Zucks will be ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 5 Apr 2018 22 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news Here goes the third volley. Right after Kudlow has spent days trying to calm investors. The media had spent months explaining us why trade is good in spite of ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 23 Mar 2018 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0 Here the NYT explains that we were just about to see the reward for decades of being pushed around economically: the much hoped for rise of a new class ...
Will Trump end-up in prison?
by Heraclitusstudent on 23 Mar 2018 6 comments, latest 6 years ago
I think for a while he was sort of aligning with the establishment republicans: they saw they could use him to ram a tax cut through congress. At the same ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 23 Mar 2018 6 comments, latest 6 years ago
I think for a while he was sort of aligning with the establishment republicans: they saw they could use him to ram a tax cut through congress. At the same ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 20 Mar 2018 12 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0 There is no room to build housing in Reno? The pace of urbanization in the world today is such that a city like New York should be created EVERY ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 Mar 2018 42 comments, latest 6 years ago
Classy...
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 Mar 2018 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
... is exploding - as it must when the government decides to massively dissave and run a massive budget deficit. I guess we need tariffs to compensate...
Reaching the brain yet?
by Heraclitusstudent on 4 Mar 2018 7 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/20 “It would be really transformative. Over the coming decade or so we could have millions of new homes with access to transit.” The measure would allow housing developments of ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 4 Mar 2018 7 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/20 “It would be really transformative. Over the coming decade or so we could have millions of new homes with access to transit.” The measure would allow housing developments of ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 1 Mar 2018 8 comments, latest 6 years ago
It's all made up, you know. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0 It leads to nationalism, which is obviously bad and leads to conflicts and extremism. We should dissolve these nations, hold hands, and sing ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 22 Feb 2018 1 comment, latest 6 years ago
Funny to see the NYT paying lip service to the fact that current money bomb policy may in fact unplug a lot of economic pipes. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0 I think it is ...
Packing up and moving out: Bay Area exodus continues
by Heraclitusstudent on 8 Feb 2018 Posted 6 years ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/20 People are leaving Silicon Valley nearly as quickly as they are coming in. Between July 2015 and July 2017, the region gained 44,732 immigrants but lost 44,102 residents to ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 8 Feb 2018 Posted 6 years ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/20 People are leaving Silicon Valley nearly as quickly as they are coming in. Between July 2015 and July 2017, the region gained 44,732 immigrants but lost 44,102 residents to ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Jan 2018 70 comments, latest 6 years ago
Direct proofs of the greenhouse effect created by CO2. https://scienceofdoom.com/road "What is interesting is seeing the actual values of longwave radiation at the earth’s surface and the comparison 1-d simulations ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 8 Jan 2018 49 comments, latest 11 days ago
Anyone think this has a chance against Google? https://www.yahoo.com/news/jam #discrimination
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Dec 2017 1 comment, latest 6 years ago
Learning a bit more about this: The ideas behind bitcoin are in some ways similar to Uber: workaround any centralized controls imposed by states and banks, cut layers of established ...
The West Faces Up to Reality: China Won’t Become ‘More Like Us’
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Dec 2017 5 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/t Duuuuhhhhhhh! #internationalPolitics
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Dec 2017 5 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/t Duuuuhhhhhhh! #internationalPolitics
WeCroak the app that reminds you you are going to die
by Heraclitusstudent on 13 Dec 2017 3 comments, latest 6 years ago
Is that inspired? https://www.theatlantic.com/ma #apps
by Heraclitusstudent on 13 Dec 2017 3 comments, latest 6 years ago
Is that inspired? https://www.theatlantic.com/ma #apps
Divided we code
by Heraclitusstudent on 8 Dec 2017 Posted 6 years ago
http://money.cnn.com/technolog Hummm.... CNN on silicon valley.... - On censorship of Google and others: "Being conservative in tech, they say, is enough to threaten their jobs. Aaron Ginn founded Lincoln Network, ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 8 Dec 2017 Posted 6 years ago
http://money.cnn.com/technolog Hummm.... CNN on silicon valley.... - On censorship of Google and others: "Being conservative in tech, they say, is enough to threaten their jobs. Aaron Ginn founded Lincoln Network, ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 5 Dec 2017 73 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/co Not a race to the bottom? #economy
by Heraclitusstudent on 1 Dec 2017 5 comments, latest 6 years ago
An analysis of voter opinions finds that half of Republican voters think climate change is happening, and would support regulating CO2 as a pollutant. Christopher Intagliata reports. Representative Lamar Smith ...
If Saudi Arabia Reforms....
by Heraclitusstudent on 16 Nov 2017 23 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1 "It took the West being heavily hit by Islamist terrorism for it to appreciate fully the measure of this menace, long camouflaged. Indeed, even as Saudi leaders were shaking ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 16 Nov 2017 23 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1 "It took the West being heavily hit by Islamist terrorism for it to appreciate fully the measure of this menace, long camouflaged. Indeed, even as Saudi leaders were shaking ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Nov 2017 13 comments, latest 6 years ago
In case you are not scared enough about the future: www.youtube.com/embed/9CO6M2Hs #future
Podcast: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Nov 2017 1 comment, latest 6 years ago
#politics This is not a partisan issue and should be #1 on everyone agenda: 2012, Long Now Foundation podcast: http://longnow.org/seminars/02
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Nov 2017 1 comment, latest 6 years ago
#politics This is not a partisan issue and should be #1 on everyone agenda: 2012, Long Now Foundation podcast: http://longnow.org/seminars/02
Sexual Victimization by Women Is More Common Than Previously Known
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Nov 2017 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.scientificamerican "Our findings might be critically viewed as an effort to upend a women’s rights agenda that focuses on the sexual threat posed by men. To the contrary, we argue ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Nov 2017 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
https://www.scientificamerican "Our findings might be critically viewed as an effort to upend a women’s rights agenda that focuses on the sexual threat posed by men. To the contrary, we argue ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Nov 2017 1 comment, latest 6 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1 In a Democracy, There Can Be No Bystanders "...until now I didn’t fully grasp the level of anxiety and real pain that exists across the country due to the ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 2 Nov 2017 32 comments, latest 6 years ago
Give it a year. Maybe less. #investing
So you think you cannot be manipulated?
by Heraclitusstudent on 30 Oct 2017 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeyn
by Heraclitusstudent on 30 Oct 2017 4 comments, latest 6 years ago
We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeyn
by Heraclitusstudent on 24 Oct 2017 2 comments, latest 7 years ago
CRISPR’d pigs could produce low-fat bacon https://techcrunch.com/2017/10
How AI and robots are eating desperately-needed jobs in India
by Heraclitusstudent on 20 Oct 2017 1 comment, latest 7 years ago
This is not a race to the bottom.... http://www.zdnet.com/article/h At this rate, over a 100 million youth will have no jobs by 2025 under Modi's watch.
by Heraclitusstudent on 20 Oct 2017 1 comment, latest 7 years ago
This is not a race to the bottom.... http://www.zdnet.com/article/h At this rate, over a 100 million youth will have no jobs by 2025 under Modi's watch.
The NYT defines white nationalism
by Heraclitusstudent on 12 Oct 2017 13 comments, latest 7 years ago
White Nationalism Is Destroying the West https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1 “It’s the great replacement,” his friend added, echoing the title of a 2010 book by the French writer Renaud Camus, which paints a ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 12 Oct 2017 13 comments, latest 7 years ago
White Nationalism Is Destroying the West https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1 “It’s the great replacement,” his friend added, echoing the title of a 2010 book by the French writer Renaud Camus, which paints a ...
A global food crisis may be less than a decade away
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Oct 2017 1 comment, latest 7 years ago
https://www.ted.com/talks/sara Once it starts it will likely continue relentlessly as the population continues to explode toward 12 billions by the end of the century, driving massive migration north. While the ...
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Oct 2017 1 comment, latest 7 years ago
https://www.ted.com/talks/sara Once it starts it will likely continue relentlessly as the population continues to explode toward 12 billions by the end of the century, driving massive migration north. While the ...
Europe 3M: May, Macron, Merkel polling below Trump in the US.
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Oct 2017 1 comment, latest 7 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Oct 2017 1 comment, latest 7 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news
Global Economy’s Stubborn Reality: Plenty of Work, Not Enough Pay
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 Oct 2017 1 comment, latest 7 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1 But Strategist says this is not a race to the bottom.
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 Oct 2017 1 comment, latest 7 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1 But Strategist says this is not a race to the bottom.
by Heraclitusstudent on 29 Sep 2017 1 comment, latest 7 years ago
Watch so-called economists wonder why paychecks stay low: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0 https://finance.yahoo.com/news https://www.bloomberg.com/news - Weak unions, - Commoditized jobs served by low skill employees - Disappearence of pensions - Rise of "temporary, ...
What moral line does he have to cross for republicans to get a clue?
by Heraclitusstudent on 29 Sep 2017 7 comments, latest 7 years ago
Trump Could Save More Than $1 Billion Under His New Tax Plan https://www.nytimes.com/intera
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by Heraclitusstudent on 29 Sep 2017 7 comments, latest 7 years ago
Trump Could Save More Than $1 Billion Under His New Tax Plan https://www.nytimes.com/intera
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