tweet: In #MexicoCity
tweet: Heading back to #MexicoCity
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Ameno (Remix) by EraEnjoyed: Kirlian Isles I
Kirlian Isles I by The FlashbulbEnjoyed: Moanin’
Moanin' by Charles MingusEnjoyed: The Youth
The Youth by MGMTEnjoyed: Skeng
Skeng by The BugEnjoyed: New Light of Tomorrow
New Light of Tomorrow by Husky RescueRead: You’ve heard her voice over the phone many, many times
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Listen to her mini-reel... the military err is interesting.
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Read: An FCC investigation found that Verizon, Comcast, Time-Warner and other American ISPs are ripping off their customers by promising 3X more speed than they actually deliver… But don’t worry, you should go ahead and trust them on the whole Net Neutrality thing
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"Best effort" contracts....
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Read: Simon’s Cat in ‘The Box’
tweet: Back in #LosAngeles
tweet: Heading back from #Acapulco to #MexicoCity then to #LosAngeles
tweet: Heading to #MexicoCity
Enjoyed: Renaissance - The Masters Series: Hernán Cattáneo - Parallel (Day Mix)
Renaissance - The Masters Series: Hernán Cattáneo - Parallel (Day Mix) by Hernán CattáneoRead: Subscribed to MoogDnB
I subscribed to MoogDnB’s channel on YouTube.Read: China may soon end US dominance of the high seas
Shared by Gabriel KentNothing projects U.S. global air and sea power more vividly than supercarriers. Bristling with fighter jets that can reach deep into even landlocked trouble zones, America's virtually invincible carrier fleet has long enforced its dominance of the high seas.
Hmmm...
Read: BOARDS OF CANADA - SKYLINER (w/ The Holy Mountain)
Read: BOARDS OF CANADA - SKYLINER (w/ The Holy Mountain)
Read: Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Trading
Shared by Gabriel Kentjamie spotted a fascinating story at The Atlantic about "mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms [that] are operating every minute of every day in" the stock market: "Unknown entities for unknown reasons are sending thousands of orders a second through the electronic stock exchanges with no intent to actually trade. Often, the buy or sell prices that they are offering are so far from the market price that there's no way they'd ever be part of a trade. The bots sketch out odd patterns with their orders, leaving patterns in the data that are largely invisible to market participants." Spotting the behavior of these bots was possible by looking at much finer time slices than casual traders ever see — cool detective work, but as the story points out, discovering it is just the beginning: "[W]e're witnessing a market phenomenon that is not easily explained. And it's really bizarre."
Interesting.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Enjoyed: Renaissance - The Mix Collection: Gui Boratto (Continuous DJ Mix 2)
Renaissance - The Mix Collection: Gui Boratto (Continuous DJ Mix 2) by Gui BorattoRead: Intellectual Property: Dying Among Libertarians?
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I for one do not believe in imaginary property...
Stephan Kinsella at Mises.org says he detects a belief in and defense of intellectual property fading among libertarians--and he thinks that's great. He traces the documents and thinkers that lead him to this belief, hits at the supposed utilitarian arguments for IP, and gives some reasons why libertarians ought to abandon intellectual property:
The mistake made by IP libertarians stems in part from the imprecise, overly metaphorical Lockean notion that the reason you own things you homestead is that you "own" the labor you "mixed" with these things — rather than the more straightforward argument that by first appropriating an unowned resource you establish a better claim than latecomers — no fiction of "labor ownership" is needed (see "Intellectual Property and Libertarianism"). This mistake permeates the modern — mostly Randian — thinking about IP. This way of thinking about homesteading, and the American Founders' choice to put copyright and patent in the "protolibertarian" American Constitution...and Rand's and others' adoption of these ideas, has created a road block to clear thinking about IP.
They say that you own things you find (appropriate or homestead) and things you buy from others — and "also" anything you create. They miss the fact that finding and contractual acquisition exhaust the ways of legitimately acquiring ownership of external objects. "Making" or "creating" simply refers to the process of transforming something you already own by rearranging it so that it is more valuable to you, or to a customer, say...Creation isnot an independent source of ownership; it is a way of making your property more valuable. (See "A Theory of Contracts: Binding Promises, Title Transfer, and Inalienability"
; Against Intellectual Property, "Creation vs. Scarcity" section; "Objectivist Law Prof. Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors"; "Libertarian Creationism." "Trademark and Fraud")
By assuming the "ownership" of labor, even though the ability to control one's actions and labor is simply a by-product or consequence of ownership of one's body..., and not an independent property right; by assuming that creation is an independent source of property rights, even though it is not; by assuming values are created, ownable things, rather than the changed utility of property the owner himself rearranged — these libertarians have equated nonscarce ideas and patterns with physical, scarce resources. After all, by your effort or labor, you create a plow, a house, or a song, right?
By treating these dissimilar things — nonscarce, infinitely reproducible patterns of information and physical, scarce objects — similarly, the IP advocates try to treat them with the same rules. They take property rules designed precisely to allocate ownership of scarce physical objects in the face of possible conflict and try to apply them to information patterns. In so doing, they end up imposing artificial scarcity on that which was previously nonscarce and infinitely reproducible.....
And what does IP do? In the name of capitalism and the free market, it imposes artificial scarcity on things that are already infinitely reproducible. In the name of the market — the same market that is working to increase the abundance of scarce goods, to decrease scarcity — IP libertarians argue that we should impose restrictions on nonscarce information — to make it scarce so that it fits into the round-hole property-rights framework they have erroneously decided to apply to the square peg of information.
Kinsella seems to be giving a utilitarian spin on what to most pro-IP libertarians is a moral case for ownership of those things you produce; I think most pro-IP libertarians would simply deny his contention that creation is not an independent source of ownership; indeed, it may seem a far purer and less problematic form of establishing just ownership than homesteading the existing physical world.
Such libertarians might say, who the hell cares about imposing artificial scarcity if you are defending justice? Land ownership is seen by many non-libertarians (and even some 19th century libertarians) as itself imposing an artificial scarcity when said ownership is divorced from occupation. Still, Kinsella's piece and its many links are a good guide to how a Rothbardian pro propertarian libertarianism can come to anti-IP conclusions.
Read: Not a Day Over Infinity
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I had a chance to have a few beers with Aubrey de Grey once... great guy.
Read: Fly Eyes Used For Solar Cells
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Interesting...
Read: 1967 Pontiac Firebird STK # 561
Read: 1967 Pontiac Firebird STK # 561
Read: Google, CIA Back Same Data Mining Startup
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Temporal analytics... nice.
Read: This Puzzle is a Killer
Shared by Gabriel KentMichigan machinist GarE Maxton makes many different types of interlocking solid puzzles of this type, but this one, which is he calls Intimidator, is his masterpiece. Starting the disassembly process requires a special key. Once diassembled, about 20 of the pieces can be recombined to make a functioning single-shot, golden pistol.
Wow.
Read: Scientists Map Entire Brain Network: “The most complex mass of protoplasm on earth—perhaps even in our galaxy.”
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This is huge.
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Read: Big Bang Abandoned in New Model of the Universe
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Interesting.
A new cosmology successfully explains the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy; but only if the universe has no beginning and no end.
Wun-Yi Shu at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan has developed an innovative new description of the Universe in which time and space are not independent entities but can be converted back and forth between each other.
In his formulation of the geometry of spacetime, the speed of light is simply the conversion factor between the two. Similarly, mass and length are interchangeable in a relationship in which the conversion factor depends on both the gravitational constant G and the speed of light, neither of which need be constant. So as the Universe expands, mass and time are converted to length and space and vice versa as it contracts.
This universe has no beginning or end, just alternating periods of expansion and contraction. In fact, Shu shows that singularities cannot exist in this cosmos.
Enjoyed: AZZURRA (IT’S NOT THE SAME MIX)
AZZURRA (IT'S NOT THE SAME MIX) by Gui BorattoEnjoyed: Telecaster
Telecaster by Gui BorattoEnjoyed: Daten-Übertragungs-Küsschen
Daten-Übertragungs-Küsschen by Dominik EulbergEnjoyed: Take My Breath Away (John Tejada Remix)
Take My Breath Away (John Tejada Remix) by Gui BorattoEnjoyed: Hypnotized (feat. Fran)
Hypnotized (feat. Fran) by Oliver KoletzkiRead: Guy makes an island out of plastic bottles! It’s taken 2.5 years and he lives on the island.
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Crazy.
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Read: Lightning slowed down 300X
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That's cool.
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Read: US Withdraws “Pain Ray” From Afghan War Zone
Shared by Gabriel KentA ‘pain ray’ that blasts the enemy with unbearable heat waves has been pulled out of Afghanistan by the US military. The Active Denial System (ADS), which cost about £42 million to develop, was on the brink of being deployed to disperse members of the Taliban as they attacked US forces. The weapon, which causes immense pain to subjects but no...
Actually, I think this is a great crowd control system.
Read: Graphene OPV - or will T-shirts soon power cell phones
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Let's hope so...
A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that the researchers say have great potential for a new breed of solar cells. Printed Elelctronics World reports.
... According to Lewis Gomez De Arco, a doctoral student and a member of the team that built the graphene OPVs, "they could be hung as curtains in homes or even made into fabric and be worn as power generating clothing, I imagine people charging their cellular phone or music/video device while jogging in the sun."
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Read: The Decade in Pictures
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All violence, death, destruction... and then Obama... WTF. What about all the great discoveries, breakthroughs etc?
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Read: Anybody out there? 140 ‘Earths’ found
Shared by Gabriel KentScientists celebrated Sunday after finding more than 700 suspected new planets -- including up to 140 similar in size to Earth -- in just six weeks of using a powerful new space observatory.
Wow...
Read: Old School Color Cycling with HTML5
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Wow... real nice...
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Read: Nominations for the 2010 Pwnie Awards
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Word...
Read: A Tiny Apartment Transforms Into 24 Rooms: Official Video
tweet: Heading to #Vancouver
Read: Mystery trader buys all Europe’s cocoa
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Crazy?
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