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Friday, March 31, 2006
Off-the-record conversations for the Internet
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There are many great ideas that have been worked on in the cryptographic theory community that I've long wanted to see implemented in pr...
Shared key generation using quasars
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This article at The Register is the best layman's description I've seen. The basic idea is that Alice and Bob start by sharing a ...
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Corporate origins of the United States
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When looking at the legal and political history that led up to the formation of the United States of America, judges and historians typicall...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Metabolite
prediction
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Based on yesterday's oral arguments in LabCorp v. Metabolite , Harold Wegner predicts the likelihood that Justice Stevens will write th...
Monday, March 20, 2006
Estimating inflation
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I've written generally on the problem of measuring value. Civilization has progressed when we've discovered how to use better, but ...
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Rawlsians' maximin: preposterous risk aversion
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To get from John Rawls' "veil of ignorance" argument to his (and worse, most of his followers') favored wealth redistribut...
Thursday, March 09, 2006
The Magna Carta, Pt. I
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JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops,...
Property in everything: some background to the Magna Carta
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I will soon be posting portions of a translation of the Magna Carta (the Great Charter) interspersed with my own commentary. Besides the b...
Sunday, March 05, 2006
BlackBerry settlement
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Research In Motion, Ltd. of Canada, the maker of the BlackBerry, has settled with NTP over its patent lawsuit for $612.5 million. Hopefully ...
Friday, March 03, 2006
Why are wages flat and inequality growing?
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Paul Krugman (via Brad Delong) bemoans the corruption that has become commonplace here in D.C. and sees it as an effect of growing income i...
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Quantum dot control over light and heat
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LEDs are more energy efficient and last far longer than light bulbs. But their color range has been rather limited. A graduate student a...
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