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Virtual Thinking
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more than 12 hours ago
MeFi post:
you say you want an evolution
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more than 12 hours ago
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"so they are watching the watchmen..." [
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more than 12 hours ago
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On this day of resurrection...
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8 days ago
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"on a similar note:
Life-changing books: recommendations from 17 leading scientists" [
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8 days ago
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The political-economy perspective on women's rights
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13 days ago
MeFi post:
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"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..." [
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2 months ago
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"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,..." [
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2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"for those wanting to follow along here's a list of some finance/econ (we)blogs, in no particular order :Pbrad setser's blogroubini'scalculated riskaleaalephinterfluidityeconbrowsereconomist's viewhousing wireinformation arbitrage [cf.]brad delong's..." [
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3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"fwiw, what does iraq cost?
and btw ultracapacitors! or there will be blood :P" [
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5 months ago
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"and if anyone's still following along :P
cheers!" [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"the economist weighs in :P [cf.] ...with another neat map!" [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"re: "smart decline" -- rescuing kalamazoo:KALAMAZOO, a medium-sized post-industrial city in Michigan, shares the problems of countless such others across America. Its population is shrinking and its poverty rate hovers around 30%. But in..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"oh and here's fareed zakaria on the 'experience' factor:This is the problem with Hillary Clinton. She is highly intelligent, has real experience and is an attractive candidate. But she is terrified to act on her beliefs. In fact, she seems so..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"thanks!
fwiw, here's a 'rare' (i didn't see it on the interview site ;) alan moore interview that i liked a lot:MDA: I have a great attraction to theories like Sheldrake's morphic resonance - I read an interview with him, when he was talking about..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"how on earth did the speculators get that much economic power?
shadow banking! (a fairer treatment of derivatives btw) + (mal)incentives... [cf ;]
fwiw, here're some other articles i've found helpful recently:The start of the great..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"not sure it beats THX loris/tarsier, but this was definitely more informative, thanks!
btw, sorta off topic but can anyone recommend any other cool TED talks? so far i've enjoyed malcolm gladwell on spaghetti sauce, hans rosling on development..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"strongly encouraging or limiting a woman's reproduction to one child
'solutions' needn't (and shouldn't) be coercive, as eo wilson once said:The decline in global population growth is attributable to three interlocking social forces: the..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"re: wealth concentration*
raghuram rajan & martin wolf make some suggestions; also see the FT's editorial comment over the weekend, 'the start of the great unwinding', cf. 'what has the Credit Crisis taught us?'
as others have pointed out,..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"here's one antidote to doom peddlers and purveyors and here's another :P
i mean former-veep (and oh-so-very-close usian prez) "balance the budget deficit" gore the bore won the nobel peace prize -- who saw that one coming!?
and if you..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"fwiw, there was a pretty great exchange in that rgemonitor post between two chinese expats -- 'twofish' and 'DC' -- in the US...
twofish thrusts:"If you have twelve aircraft carriers and two thousand nuclear missiles and your creditors don't,..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"here's fareed zakaria's take, 'the world bails us out':Power is moving away from the traditional centers of the global economy—the Western nations—to the emerging markets. To put it more bluntly: the United States is in the beginning of a period of..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"yeah, just like cats & dogs, maybe instead of race we could talk about breeds and certain breeds also tend to have behavioural traits (e.g. border collies and poodles _tend_ to be 'smarter' than german shepherds and golden retrievers -- but all..." [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"musharraf's last stand for those still following along :P fareed zakaria i think provides a nice overview of the subnational tensions gripping pakistan:At a political and constitutional level, the crisis in Pakistan is actually good news. Civil..." [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"hey, just got around to this and was about to do a big huge F(a)PP on it, but then i did a (prudential) search and saw the post! oh well :P well anyway, for posterior sake...
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The Edge Annual Question — 2008
What have you changed your mind..." [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"as for a "return to the Parmenidean moment... to reimagine his thought and its consequences, in the hope of awakening out of his awakening to one more closely answering to our need for wholeness of understanding" or whatever (so demanding!)..." [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"re: out promoting a product and trying to artificially create demand for it
here he is gushing about how his colbert appearance "bumped up sales big-time" :P
i liked his distinction between government and democratic institutions/civil..." [
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7 months ago
