Post-Scarcity Anarchism: Issue 2 is now available
Post-Scarcity Anarchism: Issue 2 *Correction: In “Reflections on The Framework, Form, Content & Means of Murray Bookchin’s Political Views,” in the section “Means,” it said “At a time where labor […]
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Post-Scarcity Anarchism: A Collaborative Periodical
You may be interested in a new, hopefully recurring, publication, creatively titled “Post-Scarcity Anarchism”. I edited, wrote an article and two features for this volume, and I think it turned […]
A More Aggressive Look At the Overhead of Private Property
Rediscovering IBISWorld’s Industry Research Reports, I went through and redid my analysis on the overhead of private property in the United States; I have generalized the scope somewhat to be […]
Transition Structure #2: The Crowdfunding Bank, or “Knab”
A recent article by Charles Hugh Smith describes how banks have become obsolete, and how they might be replaced in today’s high-tech world. It has gotten me thinking the last […]
Understanding Donor Systems of Value and Priority Theory
Economics is a study that is of course concerned with how resources are allocated in a society. There are many different “theories of value”, such as the well-known marginal utility […]
Aspects of a Natural Economy
I still feel much of what I’ve written is not accessible to the general public. This post will focus on an easily understandable overview of what defines a natural economy […]
Priority levels defined more rigorously
As I’ve covered before, a computational economy uses preemption and priority levels for its allocation schemes. Priority levels are used to determine, when demand exceeds constraints, which demands to fulfill […]
Little Allocation for an M/M/c queue
In queuing theory, an M/M/c queue is one where arrivals (λ) happen by a Markov (Poisson) process, average time spent in the queue (μ) is also a Markov/Poisson process, and […]
Rethinking our Priorities.
The job I held before my current one was working as a server (among other things) in a high-end bakery. My boss, the sous chef, loved to bake; she also […]
Example: Comparison of transparent conductive materials.
This is going to be a short article, based on this table I’ve created: Comparison of transparent electrodes. This presents a way of comparing materials by their properties directly, using […]
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