Reputation is more properly about beliefs about future outcome, about bets.
Gamble on Anarchy Dr Rat,Treason magazine,1982.
Reps get carried forward, the best reputations of the best of us all
forward into the future.Anarchy for example has a good reputation in spite
of some attempted
This news item reinforces some points about the fungibility of
reputations and also about whether or not things in cyberspace are
worth paying money for:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20020325/ap_on_hi_te/virtual_property_4;
cid=528
Of course, such things have happened
Tim wrote:
A lot of the current/recent reputation schemes make a fundamental
mistake: they attempt to assign a scalar value to the [emphasis]
reputation of an actor. Even the schemes which attempt to assign a
vector rating, e.g, Declan' s rating of Detweiler is..., Tim's rating
of Detweiler
All these mental efforts are not cost effective. Tens of people spending
hours on filtering/rating schemes is expensive.
Choate's whereabouts are well known, deploying persuasion contractors will
cost a fraction of the proposed engineering efforts.
Think of it as of simulation run of AP.
Friedman himself points to dark-age Iceland as an example of a
perfectly functional anarchy, a successful society operating functionally
in the absence of public law.
Friedman discredited on Iceland SEE...
Ordered Anarchy, State, And Rent-Seeking: The Icelandic Commonwealth, 930-1262
Birgir
a/k/a Mattd... Alas, no. A black hole sucks things in and spews out almost
nothing. Mattd sucks, but spews continually.
Think of me as an ebayer...hawking radiation.sigh when will they ever learn?
Mattd Meglomaniacal mercenary has magnetism stays put.
The more corrupt the republic, the
In all the discussion concerning turnips in the past few days, I haven't seen any
discussion about a subject I would think most would be interested in---secure and/or
anonymous physical transactions.
Is it really the case that a provably secure physical transaction is simply
impossible? I've
To wit, no two people can safely tell the same lie to the same person.
Choate:
Actually they can, only one (or both, if we allow 3 or more agents, only
one is required to 'know' the lie) of the people must believe it is the
truth.
Well, I doan' kno' nuttin' 'bout no agents. That fact has
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In all the discussion concerning turnips in the past few days, I
haven't seen any discussion about a subject I would think most would be
interested in---secure and/or anonymous physical transactions.
Hansen did it, for a few years anyway.
Is it
At 11:40 AM 3/23/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Patent office does better than BXA:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24557.html
Peter Avritch, president of PC Dynamics, told us he was surprised to be
approached this week about what he considered was an absurd claim,
based on a patent filed in
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
...an association of
tree-growers
is suing the USPTO.
A year or two ago, in a different forum, someone asked, What does it
take to become a PTO examiner? I suggested five generations of
inbreeding. A patent atty and a couple of software guys then chimed in
with
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Taking a little OT gambol down an enticing alley, R.A. wrote:
Certainly most people *don't* know that, in the same way that
Nietzsche or Wagner immediately influenced the philosophical and
political, or the musical and artistic thinking of their
I realize that this bill basically says you can tap someone's phone for
jaywalking, and normally I would say, 'No way,' said Del. Dana Lee
Dembrow (D-Montgomery). But after what happened on September 11th, I
say screw 'em.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12099-2002Mar24.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12099-2002Mar24.html
[snip]
$10.00 to anyone who correctly predicts the date of the demise of either
Dembrow or Zirkin.
-Buddy Ackerman
Hush provide the worlds most secure, easy to use online applications - which
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Aimee wrote:
To wit, no two people can safely tell the same lie to the same person.
Bah. I say it depends entirely on what the lie is, who's being lied to, and how
confident and artistic the confidence artists are.
Choate:
Actually they can,
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