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Twitter Links Marx at 193
In trying to think what Marx would have made of the world today, we have to begin by stressing that he was not an…

March 29 2012, 3:17pm | Comments
Twitter Links The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician
In June 2000, the philosopher Dean Zimmerman moved from the University of Notre Dame to Syracuse University with his wife and three kids, only…

February 22 2012, 5:21pm | Comments
Twitter Links How Fear Turned A Surplus Into Scarcity
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November 29 2011, 11:52am | Comments
Link The Great Tech War Of 2012
And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle. To state this as clearly as possible: The four American…

October 17 2011, 12:25pm | Comments
Link Our data, ourselves
Who owns the data in that cloud has been the subject of ferocious debate. It’s not all stored in one place, of course — our lives are tracked and documented…

May 30 2011, 3:11pm | Comments
Link To Have Is to Owe
We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a…

April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Link Capitalism's Dismal Future
A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since…

March 30 2011, 2:30am | Comments
Link The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
In the 1990s, Paul Romer revolutionized economics. In the aughts, he became rich as a software entrepreneur. Now he’s trying to help the poorest countries grow rich—by convincing them to…

June 12 2010, 9:21am | Comments
Link Caleb Larsen's A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter
Perpetual online auction, internet connection, custom programming and hardware, acrylic cube... Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this…

February 14 2010, 6:45pm | Comments
Link The Outer Limits
In April 1965, a young researcher named Gordon Moore wrote a short article for the now-defunct Electronics Magazine pointing out that each year, the number of transistors that could be…

December 16 2009, 6:05pm | Comments
Metafilter Cheapest way from Tokyo to Kumamoto? Last minute Japan travel: after making an error with timing I need to arrange one-way travel from Tokyo to Kumamoto quite quickly. What are the cheapest options? I…

August 11 2009, 4:09am | Comments
Link The Higher Arithmetic - How to count to…
Last year the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of digits. The billboard-size electronic counter, mounted on a wall near Times Square, overflowed when the public debt…

August 5 2009, 3:32am | Comments

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