Alexander Schatten
@alex_buzz
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Fool on the Hill. Born at life expectance 55, now 73. There are only two types of intellectuals and scientists: controversial and irrelevant.
Vienna, Austria
Joined August 2007
“The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.”, Thomas Sowell.
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RT @FAHayekSays: “Government work corrupts. Some of my best friends who got tied up in government work have ever since been statesmen rathe….
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»Die Idee, Renewables Only, ist ja eine von Deutschland immer wieder propagierte Idee.[… Es] ist nur eine Methode, [Entwicklungsländer] arm zu halten«. Wichtiges Gespräch mit Prof. Radermacher:.
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»Francois-Jacques Guillote recommended a kind of identity card that would allow the police to trace the comings and goings of every single one of Paris’s circa 500,000 residents. He imagined a gigantic paper-shuffling machine that would allow the police to find the right file.
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“China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran collectively maintain nearly 5.3 million active-duty military personnel prepared for conflict. The US maintains 1.3 million.”. “China’s navy is, by far, the largest of any country in East Asia, and sometime between 2015 and 2020 it surpassed.
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“While China has cornered the supply chains critical to the West’s renewable energy ambitions, it has simultaneously indulged in coal consumption—by far the dirtiest and most carbon-intensive hydrocarbon—at a staggering scale. At the time of the first United Nations COP meeting
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RT @StaffanReveman: Journalisten-Mythen: "Die Woche, in der die französischen Atomkraftwerke überhitzten und die deutsche Solarenergie Fran….
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Deutschlands Politik hat vollkommen die Peilung verloren. Die Menschen müssen wieder »lernen dem Staat und Politikern zu vertrauen«. Das sagt die CDU. Es fehlen die Worte. Eine Nation driftet ins Totalitäre und die Elite jubelt. Wieder einmal.
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Die Wegweiser zeigten eindeutig in Richtung Untergang. Seit dem 16. Jahrhundert nichts Neues? Tolles Gespräch mit Prof. Achim Landwehr. Die Geburt der Gegenwart und die Entdeckung der Zukunft:. »Die Aussichten auf das Leben waren für die Zeitgenossen
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“Management science also has a fairly big problem of what might delicately be called ‘replicability problems’ and less delicately ‘pervasive research fraud’. This is not a modern phenomenon; it’s pretty well established today that the creator of the field, Frederick Winslow.
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“Deciding on the methodology for data collection is a great way to make decisions without leaving fingerprints.”. “Every decision about what to measure is implicitly a decision about what not to measure, effectively deciding what aspects of environmental variety are going to be.
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“Proving things ‘in the model’ and then acting as if they’re true in the world is a terrible habit of economists.”. Dan Davies.
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“When you refuse to put a price on something, you’re refusing to admit the existence of any trade-off between one set of priorities and another.”. Dan Davies.
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Information and action are one and the same (Stafford Beer). Indeed.
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RT @Comium_j: Ein Staat, der:.– Proteste verbietet.– Meinungen bestraft.– Richter nach Gesinnung auswählt.– „Falschbehauptungen“ verfolgt.–….
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RT @Comium_j: Was haben Impfpflicht-Richter, „Hassrede“-NGOs, Chatkontrolle, Vorratsdaten, digitale IDs, EU-Zentralwährung, KI-Überwachung,….
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