HeyJaredDavid Foster
Blogs at chicagoboyz.net and ricochet.com. Politics, political philosophy, history, technology, literature.
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A Truly Diabolical Monetary Policy (opens the original)
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In Goethe’s Faust, Mephistopheles desires the introduction of paper money. At his instigation, courtiers approach the emperor at a masked ball and get him to sign the following document:To all it may Concern upon Our EarthThis paper is a thousand guilders worthThere lies, sure warrant of it and full measureBeneath Our earth a wealth of buried treasureAs for this wealth, the means are now in trainTo raise it and redeem the scrip againThanks for readi
Goethe, the Original Gretchen, and the Hackers of 1764 (opens the original)
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When Goethe was 15, he was already recognized by friends as an exceptional writer. One of these friends, “Pylades,” told Goethe that he had recently read some of his verses aloud to “some pleasant companions”…“and not one of them will believe that you have made them.” Goethe said he didn’t much care whether they believed it or not, but just then one of the “pleasant companions” showed up, and Pylades proposed a way of convincing the fellow of Goethe’s abilities: “Give him any theme, and he will
Technology, Decentralization, and Re-Centralization (opens the original)
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Stephen Karlson, writing at X, said:You couldn't circulate a manifesto to millions of followers using a teletype; you couldn't run multiple errands without a motor vehicle; and Super Sized humans are a different public health problem than starving humans.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" nam
Coupling (opens the original)
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(No, this post is not about sex…sorry. Nor is it primarily about electrical engineering, though it might at first give that impression.)The often-interesting General Electric blog (now defunct, following the breakup of GE into three separate companies) had an article about drones, linked to a cloud-based AI platform, used to inspect power lines and detect incipient problems–for example, vegetation which is threatening to encroach on the lines and short them out, or a transformer with a tendency
Book Review: Herman the German (opens the original)
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