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MeFi post:
you say you want an evolution
superonanism otoh...
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 2:00 PM on July 23, 2008
speaking of cultural influence on genes, i'd recommend: Clark's _A Farewell to Alms_, Gellner's _Plough, Sword and Book_, DeLanda's _A New Philosophy of Society_ and Anderson's _Imagined Communities_2 :P
now imagine...
cheers!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 11:13 AM on July 24, 2008
fwiw: Where Is Human Evolution Heading? The race's DNA is changing faster than ever; what it means for our descendants
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 1:52 PM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
There Could Be Blood
oh and if i may just pad my post with some sage advice from zakaria/sachs... Sachs had an intriguing position: that we were going to take all these heroic measures to shore up the economy but a recession has to come anyway. What we need to focus on is the long-term problems that have accumulated: we save too little, spend and borrow too much, and over-consume fossil fuels.
If we just prop up the housing and credit markets one more time, this will delay once more, dealing... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 7:04 PM on July 15, 2008
here're some more :P
- The Decarbonization Macro-Trend
- Power Awareness Quiz
- Calculating your savings from slowing down
- The Southwest desert's real estate boomFrom California to Arizona, demand for sites for solar power projects has ignited a land grab. No one has been as quick to move into the Mojave -- or as tightlipped about it -- as Solar Investments.
That entity, it turns out, is Goldman Sachs' solar... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 12:29 PM on July 17, 2008
Where the Linear Crosses the Exponential
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 6:17 PM on July 21, 2008
Toward a Type 1 civilization
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 8:13 AM on July 22, 2008
MeFi post:
A whole new China
china rises was pretty good too... oh and made in china: a decent factory, cf.
btw here's a weblog for china documentaries :P
cheers!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 2:06 PM on July 17, 2008
well i think they're trying to be singapore, but like it's a relatively tiny (and well run) city-state, while china is of course the most populous nation in the world...
btw saw this yday :PAmazing Stat: California Uses More Gas than China - "But China's oil thirst is growing -- to almost 20 billion gallons in 2007 -- and perhaps as early as this year, China's 1.3 billion people will overtake California's 37 million people in total gasoline and diesel usage."... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 10:11 AM on July 18, 2008
MeFi post:
While this is timely information bank failures are normal part of life.
making the rounds - please god, just one more bubble (possibly prescient ;)A panel of top business leaders testified before Congress about the worsening recession Monday, demanding the government provide Americans with a new irresponsible and largely illusory economic bubble in which to invest. "What America needs right now is not more talk and long-term strategy, but a concrete way to create more imaginary wealth in the very immediate future," said Thomas Jenkins, CFO of the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 4:33 PM on July 15, 2008
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The political-economy perspective on women's rights
arriving late to my own thread :P
lemme just say that yeah the human capital perspective on women's rights is probably (intentionally?) oversolddetermined, kinda like diamond on geography, but i think interesting nonetheless!
also came across this admonition recently, which i find useful:ALL MODELS ARE BY DEFINITION WRONG. They are approximations, a numerical depiction of a small portion of universe. The true question for interested statisticians,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 3:21 PM on July 1, 2008
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Immediate prospects for the electric car
re: volt - "it doesn't really matter if the Volt itself is the car that pushes electric drivetrains to the mainstream. The competition -- Toyota, BMW, Nissan, Tesla -- has taken notice. I'm not necessarily betting on the Volt to win, but I am willing to bet that my next car will be electric"
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 2:44 AM on June 28, 2008
MeFi post:
iPhone 2.0
re: "what happens with the old TV bandwidth that will be coming online with open access rules"
If white spaces fail, "we don't have that many chances left"
android looks pretty cool btw...
oh and re: wimax/clearwire/etc. cf. ubuntu mobile &... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 8:15 PM on June 9, 2008
the diamond age! (ends horribly ;)
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 2:13 AM on June 10, 2008
MeFi post:
HeroWorship Filter
wait, i thought that was steve :P like even BO knows it's all about ipod gov't!Obama has embraced the idea of improving the interface between citizens and the government by employing better choice architecture. Obama refers to these ideas as creating an “iPod government,” meaning that interacting with the government would be as easy to use as the iPod.his very name is a killing word...... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 7:40 PM on June 9, 2008
MeFi post:
Are US Inflation and Employment Underestimated?
here's the previous post fwiw :P
also see:The National Association for Business Economics sounded a warning on a topic near and dear to its heart this morning: economic indicators.
A statement from the chair of the NABE’s statistics committee, Haver Analytics President Maurine Haver, asserted that “just when reliable and timely indicators are needed most, resources devoted to their production at our federal statistical agencies have been cut,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 1:22 PM on May 5, 2008
oops, noticed that the "when the average isn't that useful" link was wrong (altho related); it should've been for a "new way to build a better estimate," which actually kinda bears on the discussion :P...large data sets are producing more unreliable predictions, given current procedures. That's because maximum likelihood estimators use data to identify the single most probable solution. But because any one data point swims in an increasingly immense sea, it's not likely to be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 2:23 PM on May 10, 2008
MeFi post:
FBI raids Special Counsel Buildings
wait, so then is it still cambodia too (instead of kampuchea)? i'm confused...
somebody hold me! (i also confuse hungary and bulgaria for some reason; i plead ignorance :)
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 11:42 AM on May 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Boris is GEIL
wait, so was paddick the spoiler?
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 4:34 PM on May 2, 2008
ok ic /clueless murican :P
thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 4:43 PM on May 2, 2008
um but oh, wait again sorry, doesn't that violate arrow/condorcet then!?
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 5:08 PM on May 2, 2008
nevermind :P
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 5:10 PM on May 2, 2008
so looking at the map, not knowing anything about london, it looks like only enfield & haringey (+4), brent & harrow (+3), greenwich & lewisham (+8), lambeth & southwark (+10), city & east (+25), and north east (+20) went for red ken; swinging the other way for boris (often by around ten or a lot more) in the other districts(?)
so, kinda wondering, is there anything about them, demographically, that explains the turnout?
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 5:45 PM on May 2, 2008
MeFi post:
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
here're some supplementary links between wages/compensation and productivity :PSome factors aren't in dispute. Since the end of the recession of 2001, a lot of the growth in GDP per person -- that is, productivity -- has gone to profits, not wages. This reflects workers' lack of bargaining power in the face of high unemployment and companies' use of cost-cutting technology. Since 2000, labor's share of GDP, or the total value of goods and services produced in the nation, has fallen to 57% from... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 6:41 AM on May 2, 2008
