Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Bitcoin Equals Dollar Plus Amnesia
2015.01.07 – 10:00
Bitcoin Equals Dollar Plus Amnesia from: January 7, 2015 at 09:51AM
Trust In Process, Not People
2015.01.07 – 10:00
Trust In Process, Not People from: January 7, 2015 at 09:46AM
Why the NYPD Turned Its Back on the City
2015.01.05 – 12:37
Why the NYPD Turned Its Back on the City from: January 5, 2015 at 12:25PM
Who Is Watching You? — Backchannel — Medium
2015.01.05 – 11:47
Who Is Watching You? — Backchannel — Medium “PatientsLikeMe managed to block and identify the intruder: it was the Nielsen Company, the New York media-research firm. Nielsen monitors online “buzz” for its clients, including major drug makers. On May 18, PatientsLikeMe sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nielsen and notified its members of the break-in. (Nielsen […]
Joseph Stiglitz: Thomas Piketty gets income inequality wrong
2015.01.04 – 10:21
Joseph Stiglitz: Thomas Piketty gets income inequality wrong I don’t really understand this enough to know if I agree with any of it, but it’s interesting.
Google’s Philosopher: Tech and the Nature of Identity
2015.01.03 – 10:28
Google’s Philosopher: Tech and the Nature of Identity “Your personal information, he argues, should be considered as much a part of you as, say, your left arm. “Anything done to your information,” he has written, “is done to you, not to your belongings.” Identity theft and invasions of privacy thus become more akin to kidnapping […]
Two stories about capitalism, which explain why economists don’t reach agreement
2015.01.01 – 14:44
Two stories about capitalism, which explain why economists don’t reach agreement from: January 1, 2015 at 02:25PM