open ended disdain

The end of globalization? a loose/weak/unscientific hypothesis

2011 . Jan . 13

Hypothesis: We’re near or past the peak of globalization How would we try to evaluate that? Here’s a few articles that I found interesting… The end of GDP as a measure – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/business/global/15gdp.html President Nicolas Sarkozy told the French national statistics agency Monday to take greater account of factors like quality of life and the environment [...]

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Too big to fail

2010 . Dec . 20

A friend of mine sent me a link about Google’s size (no, silly… it’s size in the market). I get enough spam comments about my own size already, but I thought perhaps I’d take a moment to put down my thoughts about how much of a good thing is too much. So, here’s another letter [...]

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Free Speech and Freedom From Gate Rape

2010 . Nov . 22

So, if it ever comes up in conversation… here’s a good reason to have free-speech (net-neutral bit transmission). This guy is operating a private blog, and has a very important story to tell. Imagine if somebody (a cable-modem operator) in a position of authority decided that you weren’t supposed to be reading this. Then you’d [...]

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