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Monthly Archives: May 2011
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"This is a short video about Erlang, the functional programming language."
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"What a lovely mix. If you have not seen Chaplin’s THE GREAT DICTATOR you would do well to get right on that. It’s really a wonderful film."
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Cryptocurrency is here to stay. The case for an alternative taxing system » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented
"Cryptocurrency is coming. It could be Bitcoin, it could be something else, it could be a new trading framework that incorporates many cryptocurrencies. The important thing is that in a decade’s time, governments will have lost the ability to look into their citizens’ wealth and income.
This, in turn, means that no taxation or welfare can be based on wealth or income.
I argue that the proper way to tackle this problem from an information policy perspective is to shift the taxation base entirely to consumption and therefore shift all income tax to VAT. To keep taxation progressive, and to keep welfare systems functional, you will also need to combine it with a basic unconditional income for every citizen that amounts to some level of minimum sustenance."
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"CukeSalad is a Cucumber extension that allows you to focus on the task at hand – expressing examples, the roles involved in those examples and what those roles can do with the product under development."
Cucumber behavior-driven-design test-driven-design Ruby toolkit rubygem
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"I keep underscoring rent be cause its mirror image is patronage (in the modern, commercial sense). The former is a form of excise, the latter is a gift. It equates to people donating their surplus to you because they want you to have it—because they're confident you'll put it to good use. You can use that surplus to do interesting and valuable things. Push too hard, however, and they'll abandon you altogether."
economics business-model disintermediation open-source rent-seeking
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"Blogger and activist Cory Doctorow argues that all new media – from sheet music to cable TV – is accused of piracy by the mainstream … until it becomes the mainstream"
intellectual-property history interview perspective copyright RIAA piracy
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Designing Incentives for Crowdsourcing Workers | The CrowdFlower Blog
"Why do BTS and punishing workers for disagreement succeed in improving performance significantly where so many of the other incentive schemes failed? The answer hinges on the fact that both conditions tied workers’ payoffs to their ability to think about their peers’ likely responses. (We elaborate on the argument in more detail in the paper.)"
crowdsourcing collaboration collective-attention sociology economics via:Cory-Doctorow
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TED Blog | Lessons from fashion’s free culture: Johanna Blakley on TED.com
"Copyright law’s grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry … and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley. At TEDxUSC 2010, she talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion’s free culture."
intellectual-property openness innovation capitalization reuse mashups economics
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Stevie Parle’s perfect quince crumble | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
"The great thing about the larger variety of quince is that there is enough flesh to bake slowly with a little bay or rosemary and sugar before eating them with cream. You can also make crumble which is really delicious."