Thanking Web Sites, With Cash
By MICHELLE SLATALLA
February 15, 2001
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/15/technology/15SHOP.html?pagewanted=all
ALL me stingy, but I
can't think of a single
time I suddenly got the urge
to pay for something I had
been getting free and could
Despite the recent court decisions against Napster, free music file
sharing (and eventually software, images, film, and anything else that
can be digitized) will likely continue to grow, given the difficulty of
controlling de-centralized P2P systems like Gnutella and Freenet.
According to
fabio wrote:
2) The real question is whether the current distribution of wealth is
typical or not. If you did the same study 1000 AD, would you get the same
picture?
This is indeed the right question to ask. There seem to be just too
many possible explanatory variables and too few
So my question is: Are normative and positive issues (believing in
differences and supporting racist policies) more confused and mixed
in the debate on race than what we find in other debates? And if so,
why? Is there a "rational" reason for this?
I think normative and positive issues get
February 20, 2001
A Dearth of Economics Doctorates
Leads to Royal Recruiting Battles
By JON E. HILSENRATH
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
During the last month, Julie Mortimer has been flown around the country on
all-expense-paid trips to Chicago, Boston, New York and San Francisco.
I should also note that this has happened in computer science
dpeartments as well, for almost identical reasons.
-fabio
Via Joseph Sterlynne on the Extropy list:
NEC Research Institute Technical Report #2000-168.
A brief version appears in Science 291: 987-988, February 9 2001
(Letters).
The Power of Play: Efficiency and Forecast Accuracy in Web Market Games
David M. Pennock
Steve Lawrence
C. Lee Giles
Finn rup
Armchairs,
What is the story behind Arizona not implementing daylight savings time? How
would you measure the costs and benefits of such policy?
In Mexico, daylight savings were introduced some 4-5 years ago. People didnt
like it. And now the new president came with a politically "good
