Monday started off with class early in the morning. I then headed to the Co-Op Bookstore to buy a textbook. Unfortunately for me, I was given the wrong directions. After an hour and a half of walking I finally got to the Co-Op only to find that I was at the wrong place and they [...]
That both English and Java are called languages is no coincidence. You use a language to express ideas. English expresses ideas to people, and Java expresses ideas to computers. What’s more, both English and Java have things like words, names, and punctuation. In fact, the biggest difference between the two languages is that Java is [...]
This past week was Sydney Uni’s first official week of classes, so I woke up early Monday morning only to find out that my schedule didn’t actually have me starting classes until Thursday. Naturally, I went back to sleep. I woke up later that afternoon to the voices of my roommates complaining about how awful their [...]
Here’s a crazy suggestion, why not freely allow — but also tax — activities that harm other people? Well, that is the basic logic behind Pigovian taxes. With a Pigovian tax in place there is always an incentive to reduce the negative externality that is being taxed upon (such as pollution). In contrast stands regulation. [...]
Last Friday Twitter engineer Alex Payne (@al3x) tweeted, “If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.)” All hell broke loose shortly after as the blogosphere erupted into a collective spazz, making wild assumptions based on Payne’s tweet.
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