Reminds me of some of the hedgies that saw the '08 derivatives apocalypse coming and made a killing shorting the TBTF losers.

In summary: his data is either bogus or coming from an undisclosed source. Yet another argument for open source scholarship; with things remaining proprietary, Piketty can weasel out of most of his criticisms with a bunch of appeals to authority and other dismissals.

Murphy notes correctly that apriorists' and dualists derision of positivist methodology does not equal "Hating Math".

Only a person with a complete misunderstanding about the nature of mathematics could come to such a conclusion; mathematics is on paper aprioristic, while in practice dualist. The statisticians lean more towards positivism, but must still rest upon the apriori axiomatic structure of logic, lest error creep in.

This positivist viewpoint is quite common with those who only took 'applied' mathematics, and have never written a proof in their life. Which is not surprising coming from an econometrician.

The lefty econometric types pooh-pooh it by adding the usual statistics caveats. Of course, this means they're in trouble since ABCT actually has an apriori theory as to *why* the data lines up in this way, whilst the lefties have nothing but their self-contradictory positivism. I suppose they'll never figure out that their errors are caused by lack of rigor in their epistemiology.

He suggests that the latest attack in France is more of the old GLADIO song and dance, which is no less plausible than the government's theory of what happened. As such, the neocons see another opportunity to get Rand to throw his pop under the bus; so they naturally want to exploit it to the fullest.

My take: RPI was smart to run the article. It brought them more traffic than ever.

An interesting perspective on command. Basically rate them based on whether their blunders could have gotten them killed. Those who survive despite that don't get higher ratings, but they seem to be treated well in histories, mostly due to it giving the appearance of big juju.

This time, in academic publishing.

Swiss abandon Euro peg in anticipation of QE ruination by super mario. The cramerites are screaming "YOU HAVE NO IDEA" already, so you know it's good.

BONUS: Russia ditches it's USD holdings. Good move, since it harms their strategic enemy (USA) with the inflation caused by said dollars' repatriation, and they can prop up their domestic interests in the short term through this liquidation. Means they're banking on a different reserve to be established in the medium term though; if they do gold, then I know they're ahead of the curve.

UPDATE: The margin call victims are starting to pile up.

Marries a 'bulldagger' lesbian, and is an anti-cop socialist. Must be tough.

Of course not for the anointed ones. It's the only way to defend free speech, right?

Like Syriaza in Greece, they probably don't see a point in being banker slaves. Of course, they want the pillage for themselves, not actual freedom.

Aerial photos of the federal family's loving 'housing units' for their 'civilian inmate laborers'.

See it gets real complicated when you have to both run and stop the drugs!!!

Good on him.

Another few miles along the federal railroad.

Using a model of the skull revealed a minimally invasive way to remove a tumor. Doing practice runs with 3D models will save a lot of lives.

The name is great: DIME, e.g. something you shouldn't be dropping on your users.

I remember spending a bit of time thinking on this in college. I had a feeling there had to be a counterexample somewhere; but a watered-down version may still be possible (e.g. there exist portions of any manifold that are triangulable).

Looks easy to service/work on. I wish cabinets like these were sold, there's a market for this.

Cool engineering from the Romans.

Looks like H&R Block is bracing for the hit of telling everyone they probably won't be getting a refund anymore due to OsamaScare.

How's that government dominated science working out for you? You know Eisenhower warned about stuff like this happening, right?

Cars have become safer, ergo guns are bad. What?

It's definitely not a game for the hoi polloi.