Category: the world
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A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Senators: Staring Into The Gaping Ideological Chasm That Divides Congress
In this post, I’m going to introduce you to a cool-looking graph, tell you what it means, and give the technical details of its generation—all because I think America might care. Here we go. Introduction Politics in America are hopelessly partisan, and all of the bickering serves only to cripple our nation at a moment…
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Wireless Mesh Networking As An Agent of Political Subversion
Just putting this out there as a ‘ping’ to see if anybody else has thought about this. A recent post at One Free Korea inspired an interesting thought. The general idea is that wireless mesh networking technology being developed and deployed these days seems like an ideal foundation for a dissident network disseminating information in…
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If You’re A Member of Congress, Vote ‘No’ on Health Care Reform!
To quote one of my favorite economists, Gary Becker: Despite the long debate, many provisions of both the House and Senate bills remain highly controversial. These include, among many others, the way the uninsured would get coverage, the de-emphasis on health savings accounts, the postponement until 2018 of the elimination of the tax advantages from…