Saturday, April 26, 2014

Bubbles, bitcoins and the decision irrelevance of non-existent information

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What do the following things have in common? Shells (especially cowries), beads (whether made of stone, shell, glass or whatever), salt (...

A feature, not a bug

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Based on a comment I made here . In the EU, lack of accountability is a feature, not a bug. If you claim that nationalism is the great p...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

There is no information from the future: the decision irrelevance of background uncertainty

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An expansion of comments I made here . There is a certain sort of regress argument that David Glasner, following Earl Thompson, is fond o...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Sharia against success

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When the  muezzin  calls the faithful to prayer, part  of his call  is "come to success" ( Hayya ʿala 'l-falāḥ , literally  ...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Things you find: TV News as it is done again and again

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Something to finish off your weekend, an oldie but a goodie: The tumblr pos t I got this from suggested it is how the BBC re...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Austrians and Marxists are wrong about the state

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In 1718, after admiring how orderly his recently conquered province of  Livonia  was,  Peter the Great  (r.1682-1725) commanded an enquiry...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

That exporting revolution business

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Afghanistan successfully held provincial and first-round presidential elections . Various folk are in the running for President. Part of b...
Monday, April 7, 2014

First they came for the pagans and the queers

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The upside of Mozilla's purging of Brendan Eich is various folk are getting the point that penalising opinion and  purging workplaces ...
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