Mark Szpakowski / Comments
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Twitter and semantic microbloggingAs the recent @robocrunch activity shows, this kind of semantic messaging using Twitter as a channel does it wrong: these kind of messages are not meant for human beings. The@twollars comp currency does it right: these are human generated and human readable transactions, which are also read by ...Mark Szpakowski added 7 months ago
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Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Writing Science)A jewel of a book. "I call any such readiness-for-action a microidentity and its corresponding lived situation a microworld."Mark Szpakowski added to This Little Twine of Mine (szpak's) 8 months ago
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Al-Qaeda cell killed by Black Death 'was developing biological weapons' - TelegraphHighly dubious - the Black Death is bubonic plague/pneumonic plague, nothing to do with anthrax or ebola. The sole source of this story seems to be http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2146286.ece, with all references unattributed, and over the top language (maybe that's normal for ...Mark Szpakowski added 10 months ago
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globeandmail.com: This is India's 9/11? Think againThings may not be as they at first seem in Mumbai.Mark Szpakowski added to This Little Twine of Mine (szpak's) 11 months ago
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globeandmail.com: This is India's 9/11? Think againThings may not be as they at first seem in Mumbai.Mark Szpakowski added to Security and Intelligence 11 months ago
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globeandmail.com: This is India's 9/11? Think againThings may not be as they at first seem in Mumbai.Mark Szpakowski added to Public Policy 11 months ago
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globeandmail.com: This is India's 9/11? Think againThings may not be as they at first seem in Mumbai.Mark Szpakowski added to India 11 months ago
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globeandmail.com: This is India's 9/11? Think againThings may not be as they at first seem in Mumbai.Mark Szpakowski added to Geopolitics 11 months ago
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Special report: How our economy is killing the Earth - opinion - 16 October 2008 - Print Article - New ScientistI wonder if something analogous can be said of the current financial system, where money is generated by issuing debt, which needs to be payed back with interest, and where the money to pay that interest doesn't come from the existing pool, but from - more debt! Our financial system is 100% ...Mark Szpakowski added to The Singularity 12 months ago
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Boom, Bust, and Recovery in the World Economy by Jeffrey D. Sachs. Project SyndicateYes indeed, so let's move to setting "a new economic strategy". It will have to include a new foundation for money that isn't intrinsically based on infinite growth (ie, not based on "money as debt" implemented via the fractional reserve system), so that economic theory is in line with ...Mark Szpakowski added to Accountability 12 months ago