Monthly Archives: January 2017

what, more links?

Posted on Saturday, 2017 January 07 by Anton

Hm, the first two links here have been lying around for five years; guess I ought to shove them out. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on restructuring the banks “Zomia”, a large region in Asia that was effectively stateless until recently James Leroy … Continue reading →

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exporting transcendence

Posted on Thursday, 2017 January 05 by Anton

In the film and TV series Limitless, a drug makes the protagonist temporarily super-intelligent. In the episodes I’ve seen, it’s not established whether any skills learned with the drug remain when it wears off. I imagine that you’d want to … Continue reading →

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strange spurts

Posted on Sunday, 2017 January 01 by Anton

In a period of 41 seconds on December 21, this site got hits purportedly following links from 75 different pages on scholarsandrogues.com, 21 on russia-insider.com, 21 on www.africaresource.com, 21 on irwinvillagetourzjamaica.com, 20 on jaykeating.com, 18 on *.ox.ac.uk, 17 on www.zylstra.org, … Continue reading →

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