Tag: Constants and Variables
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From an extremely same/different era
After finding the origin of ringers in this 1927 volume of Vanity Fair I started reading the rest of the magazine. 1927 was the peak of a Share Value boom, so it was like 2017 as measured by aristocrats. The two booms are drastically different as measured by peasants. 1927 was overgrown from a REAL…
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Hypothesis
Wolf does his usual excellent graph and excellent explanation on the bankruptcy of a bitcoin “mining” company. The graphs for SPACs and IPOs are so consistent that they suggest a hypothesis. IPO = LBO. The usual myth tells us that an IPO is designed to provide capital for a company to grow. The graphs tell…
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Seeing the whole graph
A brief feature on Yahoo Finance shows that the new “alarming” trend toward youngsters staying with parents is not alarming at all. A screencap of the relevant graph: This shows the percent of younger folks 18-29 who are living with parents. The underlying article at Business Insider links to Census data, but the Census website…
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Data web returns to data web
The “rights” fans are getting all excited over the non-revealing “revelation” that FBI controls media. Time for a reprint from April of this year. = = = = = START REPRINT: Secrecy and censorship are the defaults. We don’t have the choice of escaping censorship. Given this CONSTANT, there are two interesting VARIABLES, a political…
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Not dumb
For contrast, one of the anticoin redditors is brilliantly comparing the Madoff “fraud” with the Bankman-Fried fraud. He found an old government press release from the task force assigned to undo Madoff’s mess. The government managed to refund 88% of the losses. This means that Madoff and his partners OWNED most of the money needed…
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Would be a nice experiment
Thinking about hucksters who formerly needed to “demonstrate” their systems and machines. Here’s a pretty good modern demo for bitcoin. A sort of Tide Pod Challenge. Nocoiner and Procoiner are on Zoom. Nocoiner challenges Procoiner to a race. Each of us will pick a song on Spotify. After we pick, we’ll show them on Zoom…
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Good work by Burge
Ryan Burge, the religion graph man, has put together a huge batch of graphs from the latest annual survey. Overall, maps by county are hard to use and deceptive because ‘county’ is an entirely different entity west and east of the Dry Line. East of the Dry Line, all counties are about the same physical…
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Two Matts
Nice clean comparison between two major Substack writers doing similar exposures. = = = = = Matt Taibbi has pulled together some internal emails from Twitter ex-employees, showing how Twitter favored D over R. This is not SHANNON INFORMATION because anyone can see that Twitter is pure D. This is also meaningless information because it’s…
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Proper use of science
Here’s a nice example of Carverian science. Constant: Everyone knows that the mind shifts mode after age 40. Millions of words have been written about this change for thousands of years. We sometimes call it the midlife crisis, but most folks realize it’s not a crisis, just a change in our way of perceiving the…
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Marx is the real ledger 2
From Wikipedia: Marx was a scholar, not a politician. He was primarily concerned with disproving the concept of marginal utility. He didn’t want to publish volumes 2 and 3 of Capital until he could disprove the concept to his satisfaction, which he never did. Engels and others saw the power-mongering potential and published the rest.…
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It’s all QA
The intense pro-college propaganda issued by Deepstate after WW2 always boosted “cultural training”. Supposedly college would turn you into a “well-rounded citizen of the world.” Thinking back to my time at Phillips (small ‘liberal’ Christian college, now extinct)… Did anyone acquire culture there? No. Everyone I knew was already familiar with classical music and classical…
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Similar oddity
Thinking about the oddity of Quisp, a mainstream product happily simulating UFOs and cheerfully treating UFOs as real for 60 years, while the government loudly maintained the opposite and sucked up all information that might prove reality. Avi’s project is odd in the same way. He’s totally convinced that his comet is a remnant of…
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Thinking like an astronomer
Avi is an astronomer, so it’s not shocking that he thinks like an astronomer. The ultimate goal of his project: = = = = = I am often asked why the Galileo Project aims to collect its own data on UAP rather than rely on numerous images taken by cell phone cameras. The reason is…
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Black-boxing Brinkley
Quoting from Frank Edwards’s career biography yet again: = = = = = In 1930 the AMA delivered a bolt from the blue: Brinkley’s goat-gland operation, they said, was an impossibility. It could not be performed as Brinkley claimed. Brinkley immediately filed suit against AMA seeking damages of $600,000. “I am not a member of…
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Morse is music
A column from Telegraph and Telephone Age in 1910. Morse is a way of speaking and hearing language, so it ‘logically’ should be processed in the same parts of the brain as spoken language. These 1910 observations indicate that Morse occupies the same areas as music. Experienced operators were not bothered at all by general…
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