Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

"I daily chat with pioneers in tech fields, most of whom are not in my state or even my country .. if I can call it mine any more. And we get along just fine and the whole is greater than the some of its parts." If the activity is commercial, then one could imagine that new protectionist

[FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

With all our concerns about Trump, and the article on 8 European populist .. 10 if you include US and Brexit https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/05/world/europe/populism-in-age-of-trump.html .. I oddly got thinking about "our" kind of globalism: the Friam & WedTech lists, and open

Re: [FRIAM] Check it out

"Uguale con Italia? Non c'è male!" Not quite the same.. From: Friam on behalf of Owen Densmore Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017

[FRIAM] being thickheaded takes on a new meaning!

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/doi/10.1093/scan/nsw175/2952683/Surface-based-morphometry-reveals-the FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

My intuition is that folks Thiel are perfectly happy to iterate our economic system (or whatever is left of it after Trump) to its natural conclusion, which is essentially extinction of democracy and a calamitous collapse of the population. Afterward, there will few rich people standing around

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

I started an answer about what Chomsky meant, I think he means that if you choose to align your interests with the property owners, there is no way you can redeem yourself, you are on the side of government protecting the property holders' rights against everyone else, that first, and whatever

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

"I *did* enjoy hearing Chomsky answer this question at a NAFTA talk in ABQ 15 years ago with the simple statement "Socially Responsible Investing is a contradiction in terms". There was a loud titter among the roughly 50% students and a deafening silence among the other 50%

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

Maybe something like this: https://promarket.org/are-we-all-rent-seeking-investors/ "One question may even loom larger: given that more and more Americans’ pensions and long-term savings today are invested in the stock market in defined contribution schemes, have we created a pension model

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

TIAA has several mutual funds that may be of interest. https://www.tiaa.org/public/investment-performance Look for the phrase "Social Choice" in the title of the fund. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Jan 26, 2017 1:58 PM, "glen ☣" wrote: I'd love to hear

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

"I *did* enjoy hearing Chomsky answer this question at a NAFTA talk in ABQ 15 years ago with the simple statement "Socially Responsible Investing is a contradiction in terms". There was a loud titter among the roughly 50% students and a deafening silence among the other 50%

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

I'd love to hear people chime in on this. I've tried to find ways to invest the tiny amount of my retirement contributions in places/things that I care about. I've failed miserably. I finally gave up and put some money into this: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/COEAX?ltr=1 I'm slowly

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

Speaking of Investing: I suspect that more than a few folks here have significant financial assets. I'm wondering what people believe here about "socially responsible investing". About NOW seems like a good time to (re)evaluate any such strategies? I *did* enjoy hearing Chomsky answer this

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism Again

From Street's article: "My guess is that he’ll try to tough it out, handing off most if not all the difficult work to his underlings." I agree with Street, here. There's an accusation that people like Bannon are writing a bunch of executive orders, not even knowing which ones Trump will sign.

[FRIAM] only america first

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30553_source=dlvr.it_medium=twitter The linguists attempt to parse Trump rhetoric, but the real fun comes from the 1940's vintage Dr Seuss cartoons at the end of the article. Then further down in the comments there's Woody Guthrie singing: 'They say

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

I agree, it looks like it got unclogged after some kind of blockage, someone reported signing and confirming and failing to see the signature counted, and the tax return petition was stuck at the level I remembered from yesterday. Sorry for the fake news, which may yet become true, no? -- rec --

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

Rumor has it there was a back up of signatures. On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Jacqueline Kazil wrote: > I used to work with the White House folks who built it. It seems like it > is still working to me. We were just having a conversation about it > yesterday. > Let me

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism Again

Actually, I think the author, Richard Willmsen, got it right, Frank. I am seeing more of these predictions of a meltdown ... the following linked *CounterPunch *article says he is going to have a lot of help in the process ... Also, I think Paul Street has this same thought completely right in

[FRIAM] State Department woes

“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” said David Wade, who served as State Department chief of staff under Secretary of State John Kerry. “Department expertise in security, management,

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

I used to work with the White House folks who built it. It seems like it is still working to me. We were just having a conversation about it yesterday. Let me know what makes you think it is not working anymore. -Jackie On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Merle Lefkoff

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

Roger, the site is still up. I don't understand. How do you know this? On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > It appears that https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/ is no longer counting > signatures, someone doesn't want to hear what we think anymore. > > -- rec

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism Again

On 01/25/2017 09:01 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > This insightful essay about Trump argues that he will soon decompensate: > > https://infinite-coincidence.com/2017/01/22/donald-trump-is-going-to-snap-very-soon-and-here-is-how-i-know/ > > Since it is a prediction it will be easy to evaluate.

Re: [FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

I imagine Obama administration had assembled a road-tested team, say.. Application development: 1. Senior software engineer, a Latin American male recruited from Microsoft 2. Senior software engineer, an unusually talented woman from a Muslim family kept on after being a 24/7

Re: [FRIAM] Otra acción hostil

*Donald J. Trump* ‏@*realDonaldTrump* 1 hHace 1 hora of jobs and companies lost. If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting.

[FRIAM] white house petitions no longer counting

It appears that https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/ is no longer counting signatures, someone doesn't want to hear what we think anymore. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's