One "Old" Book to Learn Economics: Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Underst...

Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics book was a great introduction, too, though I didn't always agree with some of the politics.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465...

In section 23, the author states that economics is a science. Moreover he explains what is an algebraic equation and deduction in math to state that the same deduction can be made in economics. For me this is a great joke. The author portraits economics as the science to predict in an accurated and detailed form what will be the consequences of economic actions.

In the book there are no mention to feeling or poverty, missery or people suffering, but surprising there is an emotional strong empathy for the "forgotten men" that he defines in other terms as the people who pay a lot of taxes.

In this lesson economic is defined as a mean to maximize production, no wonder that manking problems are let outside of the equation. Applying his dry logic drug dealers must be perfect economic agents.

The author try to backup his position with one axiom: We must take into consideration all the possible consequences of any economic policy, but he knows that we need to be aware of all those possible consequences. The word education doesn't appear in this lesson, this lesson is lacking any reference to how create values to make a better society and world, how to live in peace. We need to educate people to make then aware of future implications of economics, but the implications are not only for overall production but for our wellbeing. This is not a lesson to make a better world, is a lesson to forget about mankind, the men are out of the equation. The only victims of any economic policy are the "forgotten man" that is the rich suffering paying taxes.

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Stumbled upon this last week and it's a great little intro.

I would buy this if not for the fact that:

1) simply asking for a modicum of respect is often conflated for political correctness

2) liking the wrong kind of music or finding the wrong hairstyle attractive garners a person this kind of treatment - which is the context GP is referring to

and

3) these words are used as silencing tactics in the same way 'racist' and 'bigot' are

I could also argue that it's hard to be a hate speech judge when everything can be a trigger if you get offended.

I don't think if it was a matter of just asking for respect on the individual level, it would go this far. But who knows.

This 4chan phenomena is probably due to their incapacity to articulate on the real world, when in the real world they are already taken as wrong just by playing an opposite moral or political value, or in most cases, for being "privileged".

KEKistan would be the nemesis of PC's "safe space" world, I guess.

Not saying that I agree with all that, just reflecting. I only think that only real dialog will balance this. Not force, not laws. Dialog.

I think you people are also going to enjoy this reading. I did. :)

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-different-cultures-unders...

I guess we are talking about RDS options though :)

Entirely possible to use pt-online-schema-change on an RDS instance. It's just running a bunch of SQL commands and is very happy to do them against a remote database like an RDS instance.

very simple to use. i was in charge of developing their PHP client: https://github.com/lob/lob-php

and already thinking into something that could use lob's potential. :)

I'm Brazilian and Carioca... I was at Rio's protest yesterday and it was BEAUTIFUL.

I'm against all kind of violence and vandalism, unfortunatelly we had a few people that caused a LOT of damage to the city in the very end, but almost every story you hear about manifestations and protests ends the same way everywhere in the world... so I leave for each one what you feel about this.

We are just sick of swallowing all the sh*t and public abuses that Government throw at us and we just complain in silence, this time people went to the streets and showed that if we manage to organize ourselves and keep pushing (peacefully, of course), we might achieve something meaningful... like, for instance, RESPECT.

Send love and support to us, we are needing. :)

I'd go with what I'm better or what is better for the team skills... usually I stick with Ruby, Python or PHP.

I'd love to build something in Scala someday. :)

IMHO, none.

Meme was a direct Tumblr competitor at the time, or at least they thought it was.

A very friend of mine was involved in the project and it was developed by Yahoo's São Paulo office here in Brazil. :)

I don't know the real reason why they shut it down, but probably because they couldn't fetch Tumblr's success or something like that.