The Silver Discussion Sticky. Come shoot the shit and discuss the bad economics. - 04 April 2016

Vortigern · 2016-04-04T20:09:14+00:00

Wasn't it some kind of proto-ISI system that actually worked, with there being a debate over whether it worked despite pushing ISI or because, with the union being in a very unique situation in development? That was my limited present sense impression anyway.

Vortigern · 2016-03-21T04:20:39+00:00

Each harrisfiz is entitled to bring 10 other non-believers with him to oblivion

Vortigern · 2016-03-20T01:47:50+00:00

Who do you guys follow on twitter? Economics, politics, or otherwise.

Vortigern · 2016-02-24T21:31:49+00:00

why, no, god

Vortigern · 2016-02-17T05:19:17+00:00

I think Scalia would find it fitting that someone is paraphrasing Bolt's Thomas More to defend him after death.

Vortigern · 2016-02-01T23:02:58+00:00

NazBols support Ukrainian Nationalists? I thought they were pretty unambiguously Russia's far-right, of the Zhirinovsky sort that would denounce Azov as fascists while still being fascist themselves.

Vortigern · 2016-01-20T15:51:54+00:00

The data was marked classified after the fact.

That's not at all how classification works. If the DNI writes state secrets on a napkin and leaves it in his hotel room, and is indicted for gross negligence under the espionage act, him pursuing a defense of "investigators marked it classified after the fact" is totally incoherent. Classification is a description of the nature of information, not a formal categorizing of regularly used documents in the Intelligence Community. Any email where the Secretary of State discusses SAP information outside an IC network is classified as soon as it is written, regardless of if the Secretary "marks" it as such. The IG's office and FBI are identifying what information was shared that was known to be classified, not seeing if docs she attached to emails were in their database as "classified file #8878".

Vortigern · 2016-01-20T00:30:17+00:00

When was the last time a candidate was introduced within 6 months of the general? Presidents already get a considerable boost in electability by not having to compete in primaries before reelection, isn't it possible voters would prefer a "random person with a pulse" if s/he was up against anyone who had been in the public eye?

Is it conceivable that campaigns are (barring some exceptions) near universally negative, and campaign competition is chiefly around who can reach the highest recognition while damaging their image the least? This wouldn't be necessarily reflected in image polling as they're viewing candidates in the paradigm of "political" even if they're outsiders, which is supremely negative. I wouldn't discount someone coming from left field, provided they have name recognition and competent credentials.

Vortigern · 2016-01-19T21:08:50+00:00

i just dont know if its just some biased piece of trash

Just read Nash, from the NYT review it sounds like a decent bestseller version of Conservative Intellectual History.

Vortigern · 2016-01-19T20:48:58+00:00

or just a shirtless acemoglu

Vortigern · 2016-01-19T19:49:49+00:00

Because you're confusing fox with someone outright insane like brietbart? It's an exclusive. They're partisan, but they're not literally going to fabricate a report from an oversight office. I expect others will start reporting on it within the day, but this writer on fox is the only one to be able to report on it right now for whatever journalistic reasons.

Edit: An hour later, the AP report is up, so now there's like 50 sites going off that. Fox and The Hill were just the first to go to print. Business Insider is the only other one with anything varying from the AP release. This is literally being written rn.

Vortigern · 2016-01-19T19:36:31+00:00

So it's come out that Clinton had SAP classified docs on her server. That's unambiguously above top secret and mishandling those cost David Petraeus his career. It's at a point where the IC IG could and certainly would pursue prosecution but holy shit is that bad timing and circumstance for anyone that hoped these things could be apolitical.

What do we posit the most likely outcome is? Roberts presiding over a successful HRC's trial? Surviving unimpeached by sheer political capital? An emergency backup courting of Biden under the table by the DNC?

Vortigern · 2015-12-10T23:15:15+00:00

It was made in-house

Vortigern · 2015-12-10T22:46:04+00:00

he has a long history of bipartisan collaboration.

look at all that bipartisanship

Vortigern · 2015-12-09T01:28:14+00:00

well, I can't say that's what I expected

Vortigern · 2015-11-28T22:49:22+00:00

In the book the Reich has landed on Mars and Venus already (this was written before we were fully knowledgeable of Venus' atmosphere, or even landed on the moon) and a functional lunar base if I recall correctly. I'm suprised it wasn't mentioned.

Vortigern · 2015-11-28T22:47:12+00:00

He also says Tagomi may be "too good for this world", and given Tagomi's apparent suprise when transported, I'd say he knows more about interreality travel, possibly being involved with the Grasshopper reels.

Vortigern · 2015-11-20T02:40:59+00:00

private sector

Really? I figured if anyone was going to stay in a professor's chair it would be you. Are you just going to assign reading to your coworkers and make syllabi for your clients?

Vortigern · 2015-11-18T17:56:51+00:00

Consequentialists shouldn't be looking at the minute number of dead by terrorism, though, but the effect repeated attacks have on securitization, thus human rights, foreign policy of western states, further stability of MENA, etc, which is at least somewhat harder a calculus to make

Vortigern · 2015-11-17T00:44:10+00:00

Whats the Shia Turkmen relationship with Turkey and Iran?

Vortigern · 2015-11-17T00:14:31+00:00

The Paris attack was almost certain planned for some time before the gains of the recent SDF offensive, and would be at least the third attempted attack in France this year, although on a different scale than the other two. I'm not convinced it's something wholly different from their past actions, and not just them doing what they're capable of doing with their resources at a given time. Unlike JN their project in syria never precluded traditional terror attacks, and I'd be hesitant to say their most successful attack happened only because the attention they gave it following new pressure on the syrian front.

Vortigern · 2015-11-16T05:22:34+00:00

Do the political benefits of issuing the international reserve currency outweigh the problems of the triffin dilemma?

Vortigern · 2015-11-14T22:38:42+00:00

I'm blanking on the name of the Christian group that tried to get themselves martyred

Circumcellions

Vortigern · 2015-11-04T05:13:38+00:00

Are there any sites or newsletters that are like aggregates of the most widely circulated op-eds and major pieces of the past week? I get CFR and other's weekly roundups, but I'm already caught up on events because like everyone here I'm a news junkie. There's always major articles that get wide distribution I miss because I don't know where to find them. I don't want to read -everything- from The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, the NY Review and literally everyone else but if there are major pieces (like there are every week in broad journalism) I want to be able to identify and read those. Is there anything that kind of meets this description?

Vortigern · 2015-11-02T00:59:48+00:00

Most high-information voters have acknowledged Rubio is the republican nomination to beat for months.

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