I just accidentally deleted my entry by hitting the "back" nav key combination. I don't have time for this shit anyway.

Reading all of this socio-econo-political crap shoot predictive anti-socialist-tainted mess just pisses me off anyways. It's like policy cannot withstand overall decreases in efficiency in the name of a sociopolitical environment ( Read more... )

This morning I'm at United in St Paul, waiting for my friend to get dressed for surgery. It's a fairly minor surgery in the grand scheme of things but still requires gross anesthesia.

As much crap as I deservedly give economists for applying their mechanical, lossy, linear-math-based theory all over the place outside of the general boundaries of ( Read more... )

America is very good at innovating for older-, richer- people diseases. Our health care system produces many innovations that poorer countries (as well as more socialistic countries) would consider luxuries. We're not as concerned with producing a higher quantity of low-cost drugs to cure malaria or to vaccinate against tetanus. We're not as ( Read more... )

Music is over-commoditized. The supply chain in between the art and the listener is often nefarious. Take Ticketmaster, for example: pure evil.

What's more, music has no quality-based price discrimination: When I buy tires for my car I expect to pay more for tires that I will get a longer usage out of. When I buy a one-hit wonder, and people can ( Read more... )

I just Googled "GABA schizophrenia" after a bunch of inductive, intuitive thinking I've been doing on the subject over the past few weeks  suddenly came to a culmination (light bulb moment). I arrived at this hypothesis in an "unscientific" way, and I "proved" it in my mind in a "unscientific" way. The light bulb was bright enough to constitute a " ( Read more... )

1. Introduction

The history of globalization cannot be discussed without the context of Import Substitution Industrialization. ISI was the last attempt at economic protectionism, steadily gaining popularity around the world after World War II in 1945, with notable popularity in Latin America. It favored export-bound production of industrial ( Read more... )

I had lunch with the CEO of Kemps today. Way fun! Four other folks were in attendance. I totally hit it off with him. I've talked to him before, and I think I make him smile because I talk to him with respect but as his equal--as a regular person. All people, no matter how high up, are still just people...and I think they appreciate being treated ( Read more... )