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The Disintegration of the Welfare State

Tweet Share I rarely feel a strong urge to take an entire article and pick it apart piece by piece. Butcher it, more like. Today Vinay Gupta pointed out this article by Neil Reynolds, with the comment...

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Vinna íslendingar of mikið?

Tweet Share Árið 1980 vann hver vinnandi maður á íslandi að meðaltali um 1.800 stundir á ári. Árið 2009 var þessi tala óbreytt og hafði haldist óbreytt allan þann tíma; óbreytt í tæp 30 ár. Áratugina...

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Zero information banking

Tweet Share [I posted this to the p2p-research list on 23. December 2010, but have since then had many conversations about it. Thought I'd repost it here both as an attempt to rekindle the blog and to...

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Sannfærið mig, ekki ljúga að mér

Tweet Share Ég hef alltaf reynt að leiða Icesave umræðuna hjá mér; það er hreinlega of margt annað sem ég myndi frekar vilja gera en að pæla í því með hvaða móti samfélagsvæðing skulda eigi að fara...

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Controlling Culture

Tweet Share I wrote this on February 23rd, and just came across it now when I was going through my drafts. It goes a bit far and wide in a rambly tone, which is probably why I didn’t originally...

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Endalok stóra samfélagsins

Tweet Share Báðum megin Atlantshafs eru fjármálaógöngur að aukast. Bandaríska ríkið er eitt fárra í heiminum sem hefur þak á heildarríkisskuldum, en þakið er sem stendur um 14.4 þúsundir milljarða...

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Nokkur orð um ástand heimsins

Tweet Share Í nýlegum skrifum lagði ég fram nokkrar tölur sem fengu lýsingar á borð við “sláandi”, og margir báðu um ögn dýpri rýni í afleiðingarnar. Þessi pistill er hvorki stuttur né geri ég ráð...

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Kvóti, einokun, og auðlindir

Tweet Share Kvóti er lagaleg takmörkun á nýtingarrétt auðlindar til að endurspegla takmarkanir á auðlindinni. Sem slíkur er hann einokunarréttur sem er haldið uppi af ríkinu – þeir sem eiga kvóta...

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The Pirates of Enlightenment

Tweet Share On the Guardian’s liveblog of Julian Assange’s extradition plea on the 19th of June, they published a statement from the Pirate Party UK, along with an explanation stating that it was a...

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A Weird Case of Social Fiat Economics

Tweet Share For the last few days I have been at 29c3, the 29th annual installation of the Chaos Communications Congress, a hacker conference in Germany where people talk about issues as far flung as...

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