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@gtconway3 FEAR!
FEAR!
FEAR!
ANXIETY!
FEAR!

@pranathar@mastodon.social @flexghost in fact, the Democrats are mostly not making an issue of it, because, Ms Harris is simply a candidate

@LaNaehForaday I apologize for sounding condescending. I sometimes vance.

@Alice

@GottaLaff R. Bucky Fuller did a book titled “I Seem to be a Verb”. So, what does the verb “to vance” mean now?

@nickheer maybe it is “neo-asceticism”

@solownh Willoughby? Is that the one that was in that Twilight Zone episode?

@LaNaehForaday I just want to be careful. I do not want to think that the situation is better than it is. If you are behind, you try harder.

@LaNaehForaday Yes, it is FiveThirtyEight. Nate Silver started it and made it a good site. Then they fired him, and he took all his models with him. So it is just not what it used to be.

@stevesilberman He can take care of himself, he don’t need no Sirhan Sirhan to do it for him.

@cykonot @Huntn00 @MichaelTBacon @mapachin I always say, education is done right if the result is that you learn how much you do not now know.

@cykonot @Huntn00 @MichaelTBacon @mapachin My hero was the mechanic on Black Sheep Squadron who was always throwing down his cigar saying “fix it yourself, college boy”. I read a lot (Sci-Am is great) but have never been properly educated. I just pay attention and see how things really work. And there is a whole lot of not-pretty.

@annecavicchi Because, men are quite frankly afraid of the power that women can have over them if they are afforded that freedom. They want women kept well under control, and imagine that if women had real power, they would treat men the same way that men have treated women down through the ages. I have no idea what a society run by women would look like, but I doubt it would be what most of us imagine.

@annecavicchi It may be troubling that the small successes of feminism has made us blind to how it used to be. We only see this world and cannot connect to the time of Margaret Sanger, or Rosie, and we simply cannot believe that the Reactionaries want to take us back to a place we cannot even comprehend.

@cykonot @Huntn00 @MichaelTBacon @mapachin Perhaps you cybertraders can be designed to not be as myopic as human traders, look at the vectors that drive an instrument and pursue an investment strategy that is optimal all the way around. But you would have to design out the natural sociopathic tendencies that most traders seem to fall victim to.

@cykonot @Huntn00 @MichaelTBacon @mapachin I understand the basic econ sense of utility. But it is just like a shovel: it has utility when you need to move dirt and when you need to kill someone (actually convergent utility there). How the information is used does matter. And if the effect of targeting increased profits has side effects that damage the underlying elements, then you have just boned yourself.

@LaNaehForaday Yes, but the same chart for Ms Harris also shows her in minus territory. A little less minus, but still minus.

However, this is not Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight and they are not using his algorithms, so do not put too much faith in their stats.

@cykonot @Huntn00 @MichaelTBacon @mapachin Talk of signals and stuff sounds awfully Austrian School to me. Yes, instruments and their prices provide information. The problem is, the information is related to the real world, but the nature of the market tends to obfuscate that. Investors look at the capital and spend very little time looking at all the related vectors.

@stargazersmith @Eve How about if you flip the old Will Rogers quote to “I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Republican.”