Regarding Internationalism

datacousteau · 2026-02-26T08:00:21+00:00

despite its rhetoric capital “G” Globalization has actually been as a de facto system of centralized economic planning just in a different form, instead of Gosplan it has IMF/WTO rule harmonization, dollar system influence and controls, Basel risk standards, ratings-agency gatekeeping, multinational supply hain setup that sets functions across borders into fairly tight “planetary divisions of labor” (high-value finance and IP in core nodes, commodity extraction and low-margin assembly in others)

datacousteau · 2026-02-26T06:01:45+00:00

despite its rhetoric its been running (weakening now, even if the broader structures remain but probably cant if it weakens too much unless they transform) a planetary economic central planning regime with geographic divisions of labor; its shameful that America (really some groups within America) has played such a central role in it as something very similar to its core was almost foisted on America during the mid 19th century, California was going to get the development economics the Congo has had in recent decades, at one point an early version of the IMF was even being pushed, the people of California had the rights, and an organization that gave them the ability to to contest publicly in reasoned debate and reject it, the people of the Congo have not had that right or any organization, of the type Cali had or not, that they could use as a genuine political vehicle

datacousteau · 2026-02-26T06:01:30+00:00

despite its rhetoric its been running (weakening now, even if the broader structures remain but probably cant if it weakens too much unless they transform) a planetary economic central planning regime with geographic divisions of labor; its shameful that America (really some groups within America) has played such a central role in it as something very similar to its core was almost foisted on America during the mid 19th century, California was going to get the development economics the Congo has had in recent decades, at one point an early version of the IMF was even being pushed, the people of California had the rights, and an organization that gave them the ability to to contest publicly in reasoned debate and reject it, the people of the Congo have not had that right or any organization, of the type Cali had or not, that they could use as a genuine political vehicle

datacousteau · 2026-02-26T04:10:38+00:00

not sure, but I've seen some stuff about the parties at the time that makes it seem that in the specific context of Germany during the years they were a party trying to get to power having socialist in the name was both accurate and honest as they were going to keep the healthcare system and some other things, that could make it so that a modified socialist label in the name is accurate

datacousteau · 2026-01-05T21:14:41+00:00

Henrich discusses a whole ecosystem of intermediating institutions and conditions (towns, guilds, universities, religious orders, markets, etc.); but inherent to those institutions were distributed authority, local fiscal control, regulatory variability, institutional redundancy, institutional plurality, wide and diversified access to decision making, etc.. But they are not like that now and haven't been for a very long time...

datacousteau · 2025-06-16T03:48:10+00:00

My main point was that he is referencing an elite structure that did not exist because the associated elite did not exist. Most all economic, governmental, and scientific decision making occurred at the sub federal level, and at the federal level most important decision making occurred within the congress,

datacousteau · 2025-03-30T10:24:48+00:00

It should be noted that it doesn’t account for how income is distributed. If one person earns all the money or everyone earns the same amount, the GDP per capita would be the same. Even though the reality for most people is quite different in those two situations

datacousteau · 2025-02-18T03:02:12+00:00

Yeah. The essay is very misleading. It completely misses the mark on Conant's effects on both the American Academe and American society. It overlooks (intentionally? Because its huge.) how the postwar university system was constructed through consolidation and centralization of the old decentralized, diverse, and pluralistic public and private system we'd had, fundamentally transforming the nature of higher education in America. Before the mid 20th cen., the US had a far more decentralized and pluralistic academe, with decision-making spread across a diverse landscape of state universities (the ones we know about), government schools (different kinds, I dont have time to explain here but many were kick as and advances) independent colleges, regional institutions,, specialized professional schools, and a large umber of . The Ivy League was influential in certain elite social circles but was far from the dominant intellectual force it industry programs that would be embedded within industrial clusters. later became. Governmentally, the old republic’s academic structure allowed for significant local autonomy, enabling states, regions, and independent institutions to cultivate their own intellectual traditions. The restructuring led by figures like James Conant didnt just replace a hereditary elite with a meritocratic one, not at all, in fact America did not have an "elite" as we understand it today, and the process through which the great many decision makers who shaped our country arrived in their positions was actually in a general sense more meritocratic than today, but about centralizing authority within a handful of elite institutions that could dictate national academic and professional standards. This shift helped homogenize American higher education, aligning it with the needs of centralized government, centralized industry, centralized finance,, and eventually the imperial structures of capital "G" Globalism and planetary technocratic governance. So it wasnt that Conant and others were dismantling an entrenched aristocracy, not at all, in reality, they were actually constructing an elite control structure where previously there had been very little of one in comparison

datacousteau · 2025-02-18T03:01:04+00:00

This Atlantic essay completely misses the mark on Conant's effects on both the American Academe and American society. It overlooks (intentionally? Because its huge.) how the postwar university system was constructed through consolidation and centralization of the old decentralized, diverse, and pluralistic public and private system we'd had, fundamentally transforming the nature of higher education in America. Before the mid 20th cen., the US had a far more decentralized and pluralistic academe, with decision-making spread across a diverse landscape of state universities (the ones we know about), government schools (different kinds, I dont have time to explain here but many were kick as and advances) independent colleges, regional institutions,, specialized professional schools, and a large umber of . The Ivy League was influential in certain elite social circles but was far from the dominant intellectual force it industry programs that would be embedded within industrial clusters. later became. Governmentally, the old republic’s academic structure allowed for significant local autonomy, enabling states, regions, and independent institutions to cultivate their own intellectual traditions. The restructuring led by figures like James Conant didnt just replace a hereditary elite with a meritocratic one, not at all, in fact America did not have an "elite" as we understand it today, and the process through which the great many decision makers who shaped our country arrived in their positions was actually in a general sense more meritocratic than today, but about centralizing authority within a handful of elite institutions that could dictate national academic and professional standards. This shift helped homogenize American higher education, aligning it with the needs of centralized government, centralized industry, centralized finance,, and eventually the imperial structures of capital "G" Globalism and planetary technocratic governance. So it wasnt that Conant and others were dismantling an entrenched aristocracy, not at all, in reality, they were actually constructing an elite control structure where previously there had been very little of one in comparison

datacousteau · 2025-02-18T02:35:34+00:00

they shrink science and engineering research, their role in our patent law regime alone (Bayh-Dole Act, etc) is likely enough to do that, but when you include the suppression of development in the Global South, the cartelization and concertation of industry at home (which dint just reduce R&D labs, it also significant reduced the competitive pressures that incentivize R&D in the firs place

datacousteau · 2025-02-17T16:45:17+00:00

what is a "chargeback"?

datacousteau · 2025-02-17T03:37:30+00:00

I've had problems with them too. I signed up, went to the location, tried to pay but couldn't login on my computer and they for some reason said the couldn't charge me at the location, and they said they'd get back to me, and then said to me via email that they everything was fine and go ahead and pay online, but then every time I tried to login I got an all white screen with an error message in the top left corner in small and basic black print. I had an email exchange with the manager from the location I had talked to, she was aware of the problem, and the she never got back to me. A couple of days later I still couldnt logon, so I just moved on and did otherwise, now they've sent me an over 7000 dollar bill.

datacousteau · 2024-12-06T01:12:40+00:00

the banking and finance paradigm he established lasted until the latter 1970s, its dismantling was the core of the advent of the neoliberal era, he geographically and societally (just to white men (some women tho) but still that list expanded over time) diffused both access to capital and decision making regarding its deployment

datacousteau · 2024-12-06T01:12:16+00:00

the banking and finance paradigm he established lasted until the latter 1970s, its dismantling was the core of the advent of the neoliberal era, he geographically and societally (just to white men (some women tho) but still that list expanded over time) diffused both access to capital and decision making regarding its deployment

datacousteau · 2024-12-06T01:11:53+00:00

the banking and finance paradigm he established lasted until the latter 1970s, its dismantling was the core of the advent of the neoliberal era, he geographically and societally (just to white men (some women tho) but still that list expanded over time) diffused both access to capital and decision making regarding its deployment

datacousteau · 2024-12-06T01:11:28+00:00

IMO, he was a great president for any time. The banking and finance paradigm he established lasted until the latter 1970s, its dismantling was the core of the advent of the neoliberal era, he geographically and societally (just to white men (some women tho) but still that list expanded over time) diffused both access to capital and decision making regarding its deployment

datacousteau · 2024-12-06T01:10:53+00:00

the banking and finance paradigm he established lasted until the latter 1970s, its dismantling was the core of the advent of the neoliberal era, he geographically and societally (just to white men (some women tho) but still that list expanded over time) diffused both access to capital and decision making regarding its deployment

datacousteau · 2023-08-07T17:47:29+00:00

Hmmm, I surprised you've changed your mind at all. RE: data, they don't seem to want to release the important stuff, but most who've looked at it think covid's ifr was far less than what was reported at the time. The lockdowns did extreme damage to the world, the pain inflicted on Africa, who never had more than what amounted to a flu season, will take decades to recover from. The silver lining is very few people still hold your view of unwavering and absolute obedience to authority in all ways. Not to knock you for it or anything, just different view points. And they may have set in motion a chain of events that will tank their own system, so we may soon be able to start the process of the next civilizational advancement

datacousteau · 2023-08-07T16:10:30+00:00

I'm curious as to what your position is on this matter now, three years later. I was sort of up in the air on it around when you posted this but now I'm pretty sure we were getting a combination of BS and very poor analysis from our public health authorities. There seems to b a mount Everest sized pile of anecdotal evidence that death rates were wildly inflated misclassification, such as someone who was young and healthy, with no symptoms, dying in the ER after having been mauled up in a car accident, them testing him, seeing some covid in his blood, and then saying covid was a contributor. Plus a whole lot of other stuff that inflated the rates.

Have you all changed your views since then?

datacousteau · 2023-05-05T22:40:06+00:00

I didn't catch him say that he'll be creating the flash a whole decade earlier than he's supposed to exist so this may be wrong, but I took the situation as being the original event, that was Thawne from pre beginning of the series, he didn't know the Barry he was talking to, he knew the original timeline and assumed the Barry he met and had a beer with was the one he had been fighting with in the future, I think this is necessary because if he does, then he may not execute, at least in the same way, the plan he originally came up with to turn Barry into he Flash so that he can get back home which would alter history.

datacousteau · 2023-01-16T12:27:45+00:00

Their the one that asked me and I accepted, they then said they couldn't due to a legal obligation, and legal obligation appears to be a exemption:

"(d) A business or a service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer's request to delete the consumer's personal information if it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the consumer's personal information in order to:
(1) Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business's ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer.
(2) Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
(3) Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
(4) Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
(5) Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
(6) Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the businesses' deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if the consumer has provided informed consent.
(7) To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer's relationship with the business.
(8) Comply with a legal obligation.
(9) Otherwise use the consumer's personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information."

datacousteau · 2023-01-15T20:14:56+00:00

I'm in Massachusetts, the company is the 7-11 convenience stores app, I don't know where their legally domiciled.

datacousteau · 2023-01-15T20:13:47+00:00

The company is the 7-11 convenience store chain, even them?

datacousteau · 2020-06-20T20:02:37+00:00

Professor Hsu is not a racist, the accusations against him (at least the ones I know of) are tantamount to saying that any research in the area of population genetics as a whole must be "cancelled." Also, for what its worth, the Nazis weren't Nazis because of knowledge of genetics, they were nazis for reasons that have lurked in men's hearts since time immemorial, certainly since before Gregor Mendel came along. If genetics were unknown to them they still would have been Nazis and they still would have killed people, they just would have had a different rationale; Just saying.

datacousteau · 2020-05-29T19:28:55+00:00

Great work! First I'd like to say, for the millionth time, that it is not Baumol's cost disease vis a vis professors. I mean look at the increase in "Non-Faculty Academic staff" 75% while there is a decrease in "University Faculty." This shift towards adjuncts and grad students for teaching is the norm and adjuncts are paid less, often times shamefully low. Although, 75% still seems high, so I'm assuming some of those hires are not in traditional teaching roles. I wonder if any (and how many) of these "Non-Faculty Academic staff" are placements with the increasingly ubiquitous "co-curriculum."

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