Tag: Equipoise
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GOOD!
I finally located a report of the trial that I escaped from. Now I can write about it. The jury did the RIGHT THING and found these assholes GUILTY. The Hilderbrands, operating a set of dubious businesses in Spokane Valley, were found guilty on multiple fraud charges. They will be sentenced in July, up to…
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Emerson and blood money
Today I received the “generous” $54 check for my one day of jury shit. I immediately donated twice that amount to a crowdfund that might be attempting to help with the fentanyl problem. I did a similar double-first with Trump’s blood money during the “virus” holocaust. Emerson says you should pay undeserved money before you…
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Should be charging for value!
Lately I’ve been browsing the reddit section for Post Office employees. Mostly inscrutable tech talk about PTMA and Form 3517B and Amended RMD2. Some interesting stories about good or bad customers, some encouraging advice from oldtimers to newbies, and occasional inputs from non-employees. One of the latter is a smart idea, and it’s the sort…
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We need equipoise
I linked these items as examples of professional criminals misusing math as a culprit. Rehashing both together. = = = = = START 2022 REHASH: Bitcoiners constantly say they’re letting math rule. Math is god, math is supreme, math is unarguable. Nope. They’ve kicked math out of the house. Math is always formed in equations.…
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More vexillology
Following on Harper’s observations about Canada vs US in his discussion of flags. US bureaucracies and journalists and academics are responding to Trump’s cuts by protesting and petitioning. Canada is responding to Trump’s cuts by altering its behavior to SOLVE THE PROBLEM. The PROBLEM in both cases is too much dependence on US government and…
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Watch those hidden assumptions
Poor UI/UX design costs money! I’ve been getting good value from the Canadian website Hub. I tried to set up a subscription to reward value with pay, but their payment service doesn’t accept US addresses. The pulldown includes the 10 provinces but no other nations. I doubt this is political. The Hub has been around…
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More stupid witch hunting
Media and Deepstate love to persuade smart people to “investigate” completely trivial topics that will blame some mysterious invisible phenomenon for the crimes of media and Deepstate. The method started with Sprenger and Kremer, the chief witch hunters in 1400. Machiavelli wrote up a more refined version. The recent “crisis” of toy drones treated as…
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If you don’t like tariffs….
A serious novelist was complaining that publishers have turned into a monopoly, giving less advantage to authors. Not really new. Harper and Random House and Doubleday were always dominant. She’s afraid that Trump’s tariffs will make publishing even more costly, BECAUSE ALL PRINTING IS IN KOREA. I can vouch for the latter. The publisher who…
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Equipoise and social media
Still thinking about PAY FOR VALUE or Equipoise. This is how real business (not Wall Street) works. Substack claims to be different because it depends mainly on payment from readers, not advertising. BUT: It fails the basic requirement of Equipoise. The algorithm doesn’t listen to the concerns of paying readers. No matter how often I…
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Lazy is best.
Following on this item and this item on the importance of MECHANICAL government. = = = = = Good businesses and good rulers are LAZY as well as mechanical. The two go together. When you make a process mechanical it’s affordable and easy to use. When everything is custom-made and ’boutique’, everything is expensive and…
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Beehiiv’s Mutual Benefit Society
Earlier I read about this and LOVED the idea. Now I’ve read the Society’s website. It’s the Media Collective. The info on the site matches what I read before, and also clarifies the revenue method. What I read before: Health insurance: Monthly stipend and concierge service with our network of insurance partners. Legal support: Pre-publication…
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Smart idea
Seen on Quora. Every ship coming in and out of the Baltic has to pass through the narrow straits around Copenhagen. In the 1700s Denmark charged a toll of 1% of the cargo’s value, to finance maintaining its ports. The ship had to dock and let the tax collector board to pay the toll. An…
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Fessenden’s radio steganography
Before Fessenden developed underground and underwater sonar equipment, he went to work for an early radiotelegraph company. There he developed a unique system of private broadcasting, steganography for radio, the audio equivalent of invisible ink. Privacy was felt to be needed because radio had lost the innate self-contained privacy of a telegraph wire. Most of…
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Rigged as always
Yesterday was the state primary “election”. I “voted” for Semi Bird, who was a serious man about ALL the right things. He had worked against Trump’s strangulation mandates when he was on a school board and got kicked out, which motivated him to try for governor. As guaranteed, he lost. Now the “choices” are Bob…
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Good idea!
Somebody wrote an opinion piece proposing that the Repooflicans should get rid of Trump now that the Dems have buried Biden’s corpse. I didn’t read the article because I knew the reasons would be entirely backwards and crazy. On a strategic level the proposal makes good sense. Trump is such a horrible candidate that he…
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