Author Archives: Anton

distributed knowledge wins

I’ve heard that Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992) started thinking about spontaneous order because of an incident in the Great War. Austrian forces were routed in a battle in Italy, and fled leaderless through the mountains; and far more of them … Continue reading

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commiseration to Ms Raich

Reading an account of oral arguments in Ashcroft Gonzales v. Raich, a couple of months ago, gave me a sinking feeling: the Court was clearly hostile and the good guys were failing to make what I considered obvious points. Guess … Continue reading

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accelerando

When Netflix sends me a movie, up to now it has usually told me to expect the disc in two days — longer if the nearest copy is somewhere other than San Jose (I’m in an adjacent county). In a … Continue reading

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Almost Invented Here — again

Once upon a time, probably 1983, I had an idea to maximize diversity in a representative assembly. You vote for more than one candidate. The ballots are counted once for each seat. On each count one winner is chosen, and … Continue reading

Posted in constitution, economics | 7 Comments

linky goodness

Adventures of Mr Coo, a wacky bit of Flash animation from Basque-land. (Cited by JoAnne Schmitz.) At Languagehat, some interesting brief remarks on the Belgian aristocracy’s efforts to seem less alien to Flanders. Warren Meyer on why libertarians write blogs … Continue reading

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what’s up at Keenspace?

Most (according to casual sample) of the comic strips hosted at Keenspace have had their archives disappear, in whole or in part, this week; as if Keenspace had been taken over by Blogspot.

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where have all the spammers gone?

This week I saw a sudden decline in two kinds of spam: comment spam on this here blog, and referral spam in my HTTP log. I have not done anything recently to improve filtering.

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