Archive for August, 2007

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Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Barclay James Harvest, Mother Dear, album Barclay James Harvest, 1970. Wish you feel like we do.

Persians on debtors

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Herodotus was writing, in the Book I of his Histories, about the Persians:
There are many reasons for their horror of debt, but the chief is their conviction that a man who owes money is bound also to tell lies.
(translation by Aubrey de Sélincourt).
They were right: conditioning the individuals through debt is much more […]

theorem: searching means rewriting

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Imagine a network of concepts, each concept naming a combination of words (symbols). Imagine searching for words belonging to that concept through a collection of digital documents containing text.
Then each query corresponds to a path through that network, path which reaches a collection of documents.
Then each document found can, essentially, be represented (as an […]

the humanist society

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Some principles should be positioned at the start of any nation’s constitution:
1. Limit of individual power: no individual can, at any time, own more resources than the amount necessary for a human to live a full-length life in dignity (say, a lifetime of average wages).
2. Limit of state power: all the state transactions and decisions […]