How about Hayek?
Half of the article that I'm giving a link to talks about him. It is written
by another Nobel prize winner, and gives a very interesting account how his
professional and popular works differ. I like the comparison of him to Marx,
it makes a lot of sense to me...partially because
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:42 PM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com
wrote:
OK, I'm not at all clear on how you got top-down management out of
what I
said.
I'm getting tired of correcting all this nonsense,
I
A few will engage with you for the same unfortunate reason (to try to
correct you), but then it
just becomes a matter of who can be a bigger bully.
I'm not sure about that. Kevin, for example never struck me as a bully.
And, I've never seen a counter-argument with facts and logic as
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote:
A few will engage with you for the same unfortunate reason (to try to
correct you), but then it
just becomes a matter of who can be a bigger bully.
I'm not sure about that. Kevin, for example never struck me as a bully.
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote:
Do whatever you want with my opinion,
Thank you, I will.
^^
politeness
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote:
Half of the article that I'm giving a link to talks about him. It is written
by another Nobel prize winner,
Without commenting on Burgin's book, I will point out that Robert
Solow (bad Solow?) writes an extremely biased
On 11/24/2012 11:08 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
How about Hayek?
Half of the article that I'm giving a link to talks about him. It is written
by another Nobel prize winner, and gives a very interesting account how his
professional and popular works differ. I like the comparison of him to Marx,
it
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote:
I also note in passing that a study done a few years ago
about charitable giving found that economists were the stingiest group in
the study, which I found not at all surprising.
Would you be referring to the study
Okay, back to my discussion with myself ;-)
This, of course, a tendency only. But it's sufficient and it surely
kills innovation. I wonder how much further this tendency will go.
I always found it hard to swallow when SciFi authors wrote about old
degenerate races. Not only Dr. Brin; it also
: Degeneration? Re: Where to now?
Okay, back to my discussion with myself ;-)
This, of course, a tendency only. But it's sufficient and it surely
kills innovation. I wonder how much further this tendency will go.
I always found it hard to swallow when SciFi authors wrote about old
On 11/20/2012 4:35 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
BTW, my doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan involved
banking and monetary issues. One
of the best lessons I learned was that people who really understand what
they are talking about can say it it plain English.
Well, that just makes
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote:
So at this point I can only conclude that the Republicans are congenital
liars.
You are wearing selective blinders. All politicians are liars.
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So at this point I can only conclude that the Republicans are congenital
liars.
You are wearing selective blinders. All politicians are liars.
But not all are congenital.
Luckily, most voters do not care if the lies are plausible or at least
delivered convincingly.
- Klaus
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Klaus Stock k...@stock-consulting.com wrote:
So at this point I can only conclude that the Republicans are congenital
liars.
You are wearing selective blinders. All politicians are liars.
But not all are congenital.
Ha!
Luckily, most voters do not care if
On Nov 19, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Klaus Stock wrote:
And...we got the iPad, where you actually have
to flip pages the old way.
FYI -- you *can* turn pages the traditional way, but you can also tap the
right edge of the page to turn it, so in effect, the whole right edge of the
page is a next
On Nov 19, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Klaus Stock wrote:
We need a black swan.
Maybe we already have it. The wiki model is working for editing
wikipedias (not only _the_ Wikipedia, but many other clones, parodies,
porn sites or just silly stuff), It began with IMDB and if they hadn't
been such
On 11/19/2012 4:56 PM, D.C. Frandsen wrote:
But I also have a problem with the idea that creating new customers by which I
guess, Kevin, you mean demand, is the only solution. I believe our problem has
been that we have been fixated on creating demand only, not on the type of
demand we are
Perhaps the patent equivalen of GPL?
Because the answer to why can't we apply the wiki idea to publishing
information? was copyrights and licenses until GPL became a viable
solution ..
There is a difference. I have an unused trade secret in my back pocket.
When I came up with it, it was a
On 11/20/2012 2:12 PM, John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote:
Right now, there is a ton of cash that is mostly on the sidelines
because the people who have it do not see opportunities for productive
investment.
Cash on the sidelines is a
BTW, my doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan involved
banking and monetary issues. One
of the best lessons I learned was that people who really understand what
they are talking about can say it it plain English.
Well, that just makes you as suspect as the non-financial faculty of
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote:
BTW, my doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan involved banking
and monetary issues. One of the best lessons I learned was that people who
really understand what they are talking about can say it it plain
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote:
OK, I'm not at all clear on how you got top-down management out of what I
said.
I'm getting tired of correcting all this nonsense, but I thought I'd
respond to this at least. You are the one claiming you know better how
BTW, my doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan involved
banking and monetary issues. One of the best lessons I learned was
that people who really understand what they are talking about can say it
it plain English.
Which makes it ironic that you are potentially misleading people
Subject: Re: Where to now?
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote:
OK, I'm not at all clear on how you got top-down management out of
what I said.
I'm getting tired of correcting all this nonsense, but I thought I'd
respond to this at least.
You are the one
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote:
You change the regulations of the parasites on Wall Street...
...You should read more.
If only it were that simple. Regulators have been trying to manage
things for decades. Between regulatory-capture and the law of
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Dan Minette danmine
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote:
And the suceeded for 60+ years.
Ha, hahaha, ho ho ho. Very funny.
You would benefit by occasionally listening to other people.
How about Hayek?
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they
really
OK, you found someone with a Nobel prize to follow. Why not the score of
Nobel prize winners who don't believe in the gold standardsand wasn't he
a cowinner of the prize with someone with strongly differing views. :-)
Are you really that big a fan of deflation? An, how can you explain that
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Subject: Where to now?
Now that the election is past and Obama doesn't have to worry about his
re
and income.
Dave
On Nov 19, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
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Subject: Where to now?
Now
This is largely the result of a shift to capital gains income, rather than
productivity-based income
among the top few percent, who have gobbled up the growing gap between
productivity and income.
There are two problems that face workers. First, productivity has outpaced
demand. Second, the
On Nov 19, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
Gautam's book may prove unpopular with CEOs because it shows that a filtered
leader is not that unique, there are many other candidates who would make
the same decision. This would indicate that there is no business basis to
pay, for example,
Dan Minette prayed:
We need a black swan.
Maybe we already have it. The wiki model is working for editing
wikipedias (not only _the_ Wikipedia, but many other clones, parodies,
porn sites or just silly stuff), It began with IMDB and if they hadn't
been such stupid jerks IMDB would have turned
Dave wrote:
It's sounding more and more like I need to get a copy of Gautam's book.
Well, I admit I'm very biased in this, so I think my comments need to be
taken with a grain of salt. But, to have a book that considers Lincoln as a
near singular example of excellence in a unfiltered leader
Why can't we apply the wiki idea to _engineering_?
Because wikipedia is a collection of knowledge. Breakthroughs are typically
done by a few people. It's seeing what no-one has seen before, not
compiling all the stuff people have seen. It would be akin to having a
masterpiece painted by
On 11/19/2012 11:11 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
But, we cannot create many jobs where there is a reason to pay someone
a good income. That is a challanging problem. It might best be faced
by spreading ownership of corporations, but doing that without the law
of unitended consequences bighting us is
There is one and only one factor that creates jobs, and it is not wealthy
people. That one factor is
customers.
I differ here. Not that middle class consumers are not more important than
the top 0.1% getting more money, I agree with that.
But, Clay's article is deeper than that. Look at all
On Nov 19, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
Dave wrote:
It's sounding more and more like I need to get a copy of Gautam's book.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential
historian-
Indispensable provides a masterly, absorbing, and exceptionally original
On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
One potential disruptive innovation would be a process that coverts CO2, sea
water and sunlight into petrol, at a cheaper price than we pay at the pump.
That would create tens of thousands of good new jobs.
Sounds like this, about which I first
Hi,
last big innovation, and are have Apple winning market share on style
instead of companies providing innovation that turns the world upside down
I vaguely remember that I the past it took about 50 years from an
innovation to appear until it became mainstream.
Okay, my favourite example
Dave Land, you must buy this book! - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Sounds like your interest in Lincoln has gotten connected to one of the
experts on Lincoln. I'm happy for you.
Dan M.
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We need a black swan.
Maybe we already have it. The wiki model is working for editing
wikipedias (not only _the_ Wikipedia, but many other clones, parodies,
porn sites or just silly stuff), It began with IMDB and if they hadn't
been such stupid jerks IMDB would have turned itself into what
Sounds like this, about which I first heard the inventor speak at
TEDxSanJoseCA in 2011:
The group I was thinking of has a slightly different biological approach.
It is Joule Unlimited I really don't have a dog in the fight over which
company wins, I just hope someone does. It should take
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Where to now?
Hi,
last big innovation, and are have Apple winning market
I agree with you, Dan. Newer and better versions of tablets or iphones are
marginal improvements and will not provide the stimulus to the economy to
change the direction we are following.
But I also have a problem with the idea that creating new customers by which I
guess, Kevin, you mean
I vaguely remember that I the past it took about 50 years from an
innovation to appear until it
became mainstream.
Huh? It took geosteering 3 years to drop the price of oil by a factor of 3.
snip
My rant about the 50 years wasn't really meant seriously. Just the
preparation to the conclusion
Now that the election is past and Obama doesn't have to worry about his
re-election, will he finally stand up to Wall Street, put the brakes on
corrupt, corporate capitalism, and stick to his guns on taxing the rich?
Sure Obama is much better than Romney, but he still has to cope with
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