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A “perfect” voting system
A voting system that sidesteps Arrow's theorem entirely. The scare quotes around
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Real name policies and ruling the world
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Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)
As part of our zoom reading group ( wow, 4.5 years old now ), we discussed a paper that uses LLMs for automatic root cause analysis (RCA) fo...
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Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct (2013)
In a beautiful, rollicking piece last month for Aeon Magazine, web developer James Somers ponders the question, Are coders worth it?
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Why Thieves Steal Soap
Stealing soap is almost as good as stealing cash.
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Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms
Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals. EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues, they are marred by an ugly set of restrictions on what users and...
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Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (2011)
September 2011 Unless the people benefit, economic growth is a subsidy for the rich. —Richard Falk, “Post-Mubarak Revolutionary Chances,” Al Jazeera , 22 Feb. 2011 It’s as silly for me to write about economics as it would be for most economists to write about the use of enjambment in iambic p
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Why Pessimism Sounds Smart
Optimism requires believing in an unknown, unproven future
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T-Mobile USA doesn't comply with its German parent company’s GDPR policies
The Practical Nomad: Edward Hasbrouck's blog
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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)
This article is based on a keynote speech to the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, Dec. 2011.
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In China, Your Credit Score Is Affected by Your Political Opinions
China's social score system is full of rumor and speculation. We clear up the misconceptions and explain how the credit system really works.
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Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Literature”
In my view, what's most outmoded within science, most badly in need of retirement, is the way we structure and organize scientific knowledge itself. Academic literature, even as it moves online, is a relic of the era of typesetting, modeled on static, irrevocable, toothpaste-out-of-the-tube publication. Just as the…
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Dmv.org
The majority of US states have something called a "Department of Motor Vehicles," or DMV. Actually, the universality of the term "DMV" seems to be overstated. A more general term is "motor vehicle administrator," used for example by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators to address the inconsistent…
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Deadweight Loss as a Service
The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene, and unoriginal.
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I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot
How I stumbled across a fake booter site run by international police, and how they panicked when I started digging
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Apple removes Scratch from iPad/iPhone/iTouch
A real bummer — Apple removed Scratch from the iTunes store, so it’s no longer available for iPad, iPhone, or iTouch. Why? Discussion on the Scratch forums suggests that it’s be…
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Illinois General Assembly passes bill to ban citizens from recording police
The Illinois General Assembly just passed a bill that would prevent citizens from recording the police.
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Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
I followed my curiosity and ended up at the library reading hundreds of letters of runaway teenagers who came to hippie San Francisco