It illustrates that when production is abundant, the scarcity is consumption and economics dictates that you have to incent, pay, for the scarce resource. You Buy Intake, UBI, paying people to consume, not to produce.
Author Archives: Hamish MacEwan
Foraging with Amalie
Unbelievable.
Amalie, our guide Najâraq’s dynamo of a mother, took us out to her favourite place in Nuuk this morning. Amalie’s excursions to this particular spot are frequent; a couple of times a week. Here she clears the palette and collects herbs, bones, sticks, stones or whatever takes her fancy. The picking of the Angelica Arctica today was perhaps a little late in the ‘season’ for it’s usual medicinal / culinary uses, but it served us very nicely even with a bit of ice and snow.
Thigh tying © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen
The snow arrived in Nuuk just before we did. © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen
Amalie did her last foraging excursions here just in time © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen
Just a little powdering for that je ne sais quoi © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen
© Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen
Amalie’s outfit was arctically frozen and chillier than anything most people would like to have tied to their back…
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Bloomberg shows why Bitcoin is anything but doomed
BBC Attacks the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger
Over and over again, the rightsholders in the room during the Broadcast Flag negotiations attempted to create a sense of urgency by threatening to boycott American high-def telly if they didn’t get DRM. They repeated these threats in their submissions to the Federal Communications Commission (Ofcom’s US counterpart) and in their meetings with American lawmakers.
And here’s how it turned out:
So what happened? Did they make good on their threats? Did they go to their shareholders and explain that the reason they weren’t broadcasting anything this year is because the government wouldn’t let them control TVs?
No. They broadcast. They continue to broadcast today, with no DRM.
Bluff, how often does it succeed?
Wi-Fi May Get A Capacity Boost, Thanks to the FCC
SaneBox: Email Management Tool Review
Automated nagging!
And it also has a nifty feature that lets you CC or BCC a message to @SaneBox.com to remind you if someone doesn’t respond.
So let’s say you need an answer from your boss about a project and you need it no later than two days from now. In the CC field just include the address 2days@SaneBox.com and in two days SaneBox will put the message back in the top of your inbox if she never replied to it. This way you remember to bug her again.
via inc.com
Cute.
Seven Things I Hate About Agile
As long as they share a goal and have room to work, they can ignore each other’s values.
I observe the troll, I do not feed the troll.
Tasman Global Access Launched ??? Positives/Negatives
With the announcing of a non-binding MOU between Telecom, Telstra and Vodafone to build a new trans-Tasman cable, I have noted a few points that immediately come to mind, both good and bad.
Positives:
- Content providers such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Akamai, etc all peer out of Sydney, so providing cheap point to point connectivity to this wealth of data is of huge benefit. If the price per Mbps is significantly lower than that currently available over southern cross, ISP’s may well look to leave aside local caching options, which in turn brings more content closer to shore.
- Without being able to confirm this, the building of this second cable “may” remove some barriers around dual country access as required by some of the content providers listed above and make it more likely that NZ will have those networks move on to our shores in the years to come, providing they aren’t put off by Telecom’s partial ownership in both cables, and that domestic demand warrants the expense.
via dts.net.nz
Wonder if “dual country access” would be better addressed by diverse landing stations…
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