Day: February 13, 2013
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Fate…
Fate will bend otherwise the lines on your palm, like a switchman; Sooner or later, Time will affirm this. [Odysseas Elytis – The Monogram] Θα γυρίσει αλλού τις χαρακιές τής παλάμης, η Μοίρα, σαν κλειδούχος. Μια στιγμή θα συγκατατεθεί ο Καιρός. [Οδυσσέας Ελύτης, Μονόγραμμα]
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Hyperbolic discounting, extensive margin, rebalancing, New Thought. Or… how economic jargon reshapes Society
Competitiveness, debt hair cuts, rebalancing, debt ceiling, zombie banks, deleveraging, automatic stabalizers, extensive margin, hyperbolic discounting (1, 2), Oops (3), price caps, minimum wage… Economic jargon is something more than just a set of weird words used by weird economy people. They are a tool of re-defining society. As Orwell very intuitively put it in…
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Detecting nuclear explosions, “detecting” nuclear explosions…
The new are full of headlines on how CTBTO managed to detect the nuclear blast of the North Korea recent test. Through sensors – both seismic and even radioactivity sensors (really?) – the agency is said to be able to determine even the type of the device tested. (1, 2, 3) This is what technology…
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Pray for few followers!
If everyone accepts what you do… If no one disagrees with you… If many people like your work… If too many follow you blog… Then you are certainly doing something wrong!
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