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Merry Christmas, bankers. Linked In News Post Forum

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When all else fails politically, why not just boost military spending (in order to prevent a depression)?

After all: Economics is about numbers, not people: It’s time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. Linked In News Post Forum

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What if economists did positive economics?

What if the European Union breaks up? What if unemplyment goes to 50%? Do you care? If you do, then that is what is referred to as a “normative” statement. Positive statements and positive economics are not about value judgements. … Continue reading

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The Web is closer to the phenomenological truth of our lives [David Weinberger]

Now, he said, the model of a protean, ever-linked and ever-changing world is killing that. “The dream of the West has been that we will live together in knowledge, that there is One Knowledge. The Web is saying ‘Nice try,’” … Continue reading

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Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) (in Italian: Federazione Anarchica Informale) is an Italian insurrectionary anarchist organization

I hear in the United States, they have ads that say the postal service is more secure than email. Here’s some information from Internet hackers. Linked In News Post Forum

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John Battelle: “Brands are used as meaningful platforms” — NOT!

This is an interesting point that John Battelle raises: [The "Big Five"] companies must have scale in terms of direct reach to consumers. By this I mean their brands are used as meaningful platforms by hundreds of millions of people … Continue reading

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How to Make the Most of this World: Maximization of Global Happiness

There may be something particularly special about happiness: It may indeed be something that does not need to be offset by something else. Therefore, if there is something that is capable of breaking free from zero-sum games, then happiness is … Continue reading

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Depression is depressing

I’m actually having trouble writing about all this; it’s just too depressing. Linked In News Post Forum

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Focusing on the attention economy in the midst of a sea of madness

If you focus on content you will surely get lost in a flood useless data streams. Instead, you should focus on why and how the attention economy actually works. Linked In News Post Forum

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See ya later, high frequency trader! ;)

The problem with taxing scum is: That may drive scum offshore. Wait a second… — is that really a bad thing? Among the long-running objections to transaction taxes is the likelihood that [high frequency] trading would simply move to countries … Continue reading

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