Mark Huberty

Keynes, on pre-WWI Europe. Could be talking about today. Not a pleasant thought. fee.org/articles/quote-of-th…

9. @dsquareddigest By 70s, cycle has undermined UK capital investment/firm restructuring too long, industry highly uncompetitive.

9. @dsquareddigest Labor (and, occassionally, Tories) try Keynesianism ("go") like French, run into BoE ("stop") and exchange rate policy.

8. @dsquareddigest Postwar this means mgmt, labor badly organized for major recapitalization. BoE favors foreign debts and sterling.

7. @dsquareddigest And residual empire through WWII provides market insulated from other major industrial powers, esp. Germany.

6. @dsquareddigest Unions emerge from guilds, fragmented. Too many to ensure stable capital-labor relations. Defection too easy.

5. @dsquareddigest Firms small, tied to craftsman/tinkerer origins of 1st-gen capitalists. Mgmt reflects this, prly suited to 2nd ind rev

4. @dsquareddigest First mover on industry means UK always still depreciating old assets when other countries investing in new.

3. @dsquareddigest Question is why this happened in the UK and not elsewhere. Std answer IIRC is factors tied to early industrialization

you should go see the bay model next time you are in San Fran. Same idea, with a utopian postwar industrial strategy to boot.

are you suggesting that we understand the systems we already have? I'm unconvinced. B

Elsevier just sent me an author feedback survey. This should be fun.

Aware of the O'Reilly agile data book. Looking for less hadoop / production engineering focused stuff

Data folks: anyone have good recs re managing non-production data teams? Eg research analytics, exploratory modeling.

@cdubhland @treycausey see almost all attempts at forecasting US elections with social media.

Someone is excavating his basement with radio control toy trucks. carscoops.com/2012/02/canadi…

Thanks to @treycausey for beers and bus fare in Seattle!

Hello again sf. Forgot how badly behaved your cyclists really are.

Emacs: 60 to 0 in one install