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Monthly Archives: September 2009
The Electoral Reform Dream Paper
The Electoral Reform Greenpaper has mostly received coverage for the two particularly stupid proposals that are raised: lowering the age of franchise and replacing the paper ballot with electronic or — much worse — internet voting.
Robert Merkel points out at LP that there is an almost universal condemnation of the latter idea by IT security [...] Continue reading
NeoAxis: Some Whinging
One of my final semester units at UWA is Game Design & Multimedia. The engine used for this course is NeoAxis, which is a sort of franken-framework built in a lab out of parts of opensource code. For instance, it … Continue reading
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On a Hero
As far back as Frederic Bastiat’s Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas (That which is seen and that which is unseen), economists have been aware of the difficulty of getting people to look past the immediate and highly visible, through to widely distributed, hard to distinguish, long-term effects of decisions and policies.
This [...] Continue reading
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