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Economics

Fun is no longer a priority

What US Game Developers Need to Know about Free-to-Play in China.

On The Shoulders of Giants

New research finds that the historical background of Google’s PageRank algorithm is richer than previously suspected.

Concrete Hallucinations

There was only one language that everyone in the Tower of Babel spoke... that of money.

The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement

This is the full text of my submission to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the proposed free trade agreement with the United States. Much of this draws from the precedent set…

Human Area Networks

There's a lot that could be said about emerging products like RedTacton: Using a new super-sensitive photonic electric field sensor, RedTacton can achieve duplex communication over the human…

Louisiana flies

The situation in New Orleans painfully illustrates a totality of social disintegration, a powder keg of anger and anarchy primed by the greatest oppressive capitalist state this world has ever seen.…

Our New Feudal Overlords

Not everyone understands scaling for the masses.

Gross Domestic Pathologies

I have decided that John Key has wholly entered into hyper-reality, becoming little more than a holographic-psychic protective shell created by the minds of stress affective New Zealand taxpayers.

Flocks of Black Swans

Many programmers and those with ears tuned in to murmurs from the dark side of the finance industry will have heard the recent story involving Goldman Sachs.

E-Government Bar Camp Wrap

It's been a long long time since I've participated in hours and hours of such lively and (mostly) positive discussion. I have to echo Mike's view that Wellington is one of the only places where…

Scaling for the Masses

“Only the largest enterprises will be able to justify owning and operating their own servers.”

The Committee To Save The World

The story of Obama’s “Inside Man” and the context of the financial crisis, through decades of Washington policy.

Mapping the Global Shipping Network

Surprisingly, the global shipping network has never been mapped, despite estimates that 90% of the world's trade travels across the oceans.

The End of Economics

Economics in its traditionally enshrined format is an awkward relic of a twisted history.

Local government for a connected world

I was supposedly going to be in Auckland this weekend, but things changed. After a fascinating discussion with Callum Strong on the relativity of rates on Thursday, I spontaneously decided…

Contradictions, Conspiracies, and Cultural Logic

Frederic Jameson, author of Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism gave a lecture at Vic yesterday about Representations of Globalisation. Jameson's project can perhaps be summed…