sem inflação não há guerra

The American Conservative -- Inflating War  (theamericanconservative.com)

- Highlight Loc. 27-28  | Added on Sunday, April 08, 2012, 05:10 PM

“One can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism,” Ludwig von Mises wrote. “Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare become obious much more quickly and penetratingly; war weariness would set in much earlier.”

As I see things, the truly vital issues are quite simple

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

- Highlight Loc. 1967-69  | Added on Friday, April 06, 2012, 08:06 PM

As I see things, the truly vital issues are quite simple. In my judgment the modern economists have, with laudable mathematical erudition, erected an imposing and analytically rigorous framework upon an inadequate foundation in respect of conceptual clarity.

if the United States ever developed into a totalitarian state we ould not know it.

Review: Judicial? Or Unjudicious?  (lewrockwell.com)

- Highlight Loc. 26-30  | Added on Friday, April 06, 2012, 01:12 PM

"Dr. Cornellius Cotter, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, appeared before a special Senate committee in April, 1973. He remarked: “You know, Senator Mathias, it has been said—and, I think wisely so—that if the United States ever developed into a totalitarian state we ould not know it. We would not know that it had happened. It would be all so gradual, the ritualism would all be retained as a facade to disguise what had happened. Most people in the United States, in official position, would continue to do the sorts of things that they are doing now. The changes would have all been so subtle although so fundamental that people generally would be unaware.”

“nossa! vamos entrar nessa feira, olha só como tá tudo bonito, luminoso...”

A Bacante da Boca do Lixo (Outros Escritos da Virada do Milênio) (Portuguese Edition) (Yuri Vieira)

- Highlight Loc. 2501-5  | Added on Wednesday, April 04, 2012, 09:08 PM

tomamos um doce que só bateu quando a gente tava saindo de manhã. eu e o Sérgio num passeio matutino. cada um com mais cara de vampiro que o outro. os prédios da Brigadeiro se inclinavam pra cima da gente, parecia que São Paulo ia nos engolir. e o cara: “nossa! vamos entrar nessa feira, olha só como tá tudo bonito, luminoso...” que saco, tive que arrastar o cara dali debaixo do viaduto da Treze de Maio, onde rola a feira. ele ficava perguntando pra japonesa: “¿esse pimentão é de verdade?”

Speed Hashing

Speed Hashing  (codinghorror.com)

- Highlight Loc. 30-31  | Added on Friday, April 06, 2012, 01:19 PM

The good news is that hashing algorithms (assuming you didn't roll your own, God forbid) were designed by professional mathematicians and cryptographers who knew what they were doing.

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data  (backchannel.org)

- Highlight Loc. 22-25  | Added on Wednesday, April 04, 2012, 05:52 PM

We index data in these entities by storing indexes in separate MySQL tables. If we want to index three properties in each entity, we will have three MySQL tables - one for each index. If we want to stop using an index, we stop writing to that table from our code and, optionally, drop the table from MySQL. If we want a new index, we make a new MySQL table for that index and run a process to asynchronously populate the index without disrupting our live service.

This is the origin of the condition that macro-economists so inappropriately call “increasingly deficient aggregate effective demand.”

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

- Highlight Loc. 1814-18  | Added on Friday, March 30, 2012, 01:45 PM

To recapitulate, it is through restraints on the coordinative process that the source of demands can come to be cumulatively constrained. This is the origin of the condition that macro-economists so inappropriately call “increasingly deficient aggregate effective demand.” Through such constraints, employment outlets remain available only at continuously falling real remuneration. The process can be reversed by unemployed (or sub-optimally employed) persons accepting jobs at labor costs which are related to current prospects of yields.

a wage-rate of nil

A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (W. H. Hutt)

- Highlight Loc. 1789-91  | Added on Friday, March 30, 2012, 10:29 AM

Of course the restoration of employment is compatible “with the real wage-rate unchanged,” in the sense of the average wage-rate, provided unemployed workers are reckoned in the averages as having a wage-rate of nil.

A partir do momento em que uma espécie animal, por mutação repentina e espontânea, dá à luz seres volitivos...

A Bacante da Boca do Lixo (Outros Escritos da Virada do Milênio) (Portuguese Edition) (Yuri Vieira)

- Highlight Loc. 2132-33  | Added on Friday, March 30, 2012, 03:55 AM

A partir do momento em que uma espécie animal, por mutação repentina e espontânea, dá à luz seres volitivos, o planeta recebe o status de planeta habitado, sendo designado, para ele, um Príncipe Planetário,

¿Quiénes inventaron a Tlön?

A Bacante da Boca do Lixo (Outros Escritos da Virada do Milênio) (Portuguese Edition) (Yuri Vieira)

- Highlight Loc. 1936-37  | Added on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 08:45 PM

E então, sem deixar de lembrar que no latim inventar e descobrir são sinônimos, Borges indaga: “¿Quiénes inventaron a Tlön?”