“This is a nice exam­ple of a tic unique to leg­is­la­tors and par­tic­u­larly com­mon with Ben Nel­son: the con­stituent voice. Some politi­cians talk in the first per­son (“I oppose rais­ing taxes on the rich”). Some talk in the third-​​person (“Bob Dole opposes rais­ing taxes on the rich”). And then some talk in the con­stituent per­son (“Vot­ers oppose rais­ing taxes on the rich”). The prob­lem with the con­stituent per­son, how­ever, is that it’s fal­si­fi­able. And in this case, it’s false.”

“This paper seeks to explode the myth that Tur­ing Machines ™ are the uni­ver­sal model for all computation.”

Now would some­body please under­mine the com­pu­ta­tional com­plex­ity greed peo­ple have about algo­rithms? I find it deeply embar­rass­ing to be told by some­body who “knows too much” that they will never even try an algo­rithm that is worse than poly­no­mial, under any cir­cum­stances or for any prob­lem. Like the idiots who have been taught some Gauss­ian sta­tis­tics and say they would never gam­ble in a Casino because they KNOW they would ALWAYS lose.

“It is no won­der that both the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic right look back at the McKin­ley Era for their ideal. No income tax, no uni­ver­sal suf­frage in Eng­land, no pop­u­lar elec­tion of Sen­a­tors in the U.S., no insider trad­ing rules, no restric­tions on wage sup­pres­sion. Now that is freedom!!

Prof. Thoma told me a few years ago that “Eco­nom­ics does not han­dle equity well”. And after giv­ing that some long thought I fig­ured out why. Because clas­si­cal eco­nom­ics does not han­dle pop­u­lar democ­racy well. That is for some peo­ple in Eng­land every­thing was down­hill after the Reform Act of 1832 with ulti­mate dis­as­ter deliv­ered with Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Peo­ple Act of 1918, while in the U.S. it was the changes intro­duced with the 16^th, 17^th and 19^th Amendments.

Damn democ­racy! Always screw­ing with this nicely designed busi­ness plan!”

“As your bear runs amok through a jun­gle of clunky pix­e­lated trees, he has to con­tend with leaves, pine cones, and an out of con­trol bad­ger – all with a sin­gle paw. Multi-​​touch is for wussies. Still don’t get it? Here’s the entire game manual:…”

“Dot2tex is a tool for con­vert­ing graphs ren­dered by Graphviz to for­mats
that can be used with LaTeX.

The pur­pose of dot2tex is to give graphs gen­er­ated by Graphviz a more
LaTeX friendly look and feel. This is accom­plished by con­vert­ing xdot
out­put from Graphviz to a series of TikZ and PGF, or PSTricks com­mands.
This approach allows:

* Type­set­ting labels with LaTeX, allow­ing math­e­mat­i­cal nota­tion.
* Using native PSTricks and PGF/​TikZ com­mands for draw­ing arrows.
* Using back­end spe­cific styles to cus­tomize the output”

“We use the term “bagholder” all the time, and it seems to me we’ve for­got­ten where that metaphor comes from. It didn’t used to be con­sid­ered accept­able to find some naive rube you could manip­u­late into hold­ing the bag when the cops showed up, while the sea­soned rob­bers scarpered. I’m really amazed by all these self-​​employed folks who keep pop­ping up in our com­ments to defend stated income lend­ing. It is a way for you to get a loan on terms that mean you poten­tially face pros­e­cu­tion if some­thing goes wrong. Your enthu­si­asm for tak­ing this risk is mak­ing a lot of mar­ginal lenders happy, because you’re help­ing them hide the true risk in their loan port­fo­lios from audi­tors, exam­in­ers, and coun­ter­par­ties. You aren’t get­ting those stated income loans because lenders like to do busi­ness with entre­pre­neurs, “the back­bone of Amer­ica.”… You’re get­ting stated income loans because you’re will­ing to be the bagholder.”

“i3 Detroit will be rent­ing a 600 square foot loft space which we are allowed to fin­ish the space as we wish. The ceil­ings are 14 ft high and our monthly rent includes our elec­tric­ity as well. Once we have signed the lease and have our $1400 we will imme­di­atly begin the build out of our new space. Once the space has been built out we will be hold­ing a Grand Open­ing party for both mem­bers and non mem­bers to come and see the new space.”

This is how a news­pa­per should work. And note: no busi­ness was closed and re-​​opened to escape legal oblig­a­tions to pay employee ben­e­fits to cre­ate this story.