December 2011
8 posts
End artificial scarcities to boost productivity
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BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet? - ACM... →
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New Statesman - The true threat is not a... →
Laurie Penny’s musing on the 10th anniversary of that unfortunate event. Bit late to the party on this one.
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L'Hôte: the resentment machine →
He’s wrong in interesting ways, and I do love that posts like these are exactly what he’s upset about.
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World building 201: Heuristics →
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Creating the Innocent Killer →
Critical analysis of “Ender’s Game”. His thesis is that Card has constructed as straw man argument for a morality where only intentions matter, allowing Ender to become a virtuous, innocent hero, despite personally killing three children and destroying an entire species.
