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Monday, March 07, 2016
The trouble with books
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The Chinese invented printing, but their writing system required a large number of typefaces, which made for very high up-front capital cost...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Two Malthusian scares
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Carter lectures the U.S. on energy, 1978 In 1798. the Reverend Thomas Malthus wrote his influential essay on population , arguing tha...
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Thursday, October 08, 2015
Estimating and minimizing consumer worry
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The process of selling in general, and web commerce in particular, is often described or charted as a funnel. Prospective customers are pour...
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Friday, July 03, 2015
The Greek financial mess; and some ways Bitcoin might help
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Many years of government debt buildup in Greece has ultimately resulted, in the last few days, in a political and financial maelstrom. Th...
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Monday, May 25, 2015
Small-game fallacies
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A small-game fallacy occurs when game theorists, economists, or others trying to apply game-theoretic or microeconomic techniques to real-wo...
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
The dawn of trustworthy computing
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When we currently use a smart phone or a laptop on a cell network or the Internet, the other end of these interactions typically run on othe...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Transportation, divergence, and the industrial revolution
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After about 1000 AD northwestern Europe started a gradual switch from using oxen to using horses for farm traction and transportation. This...
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