Energy Policy

U.S. Energy Policy, as it stands today, is broken because it is not sustainable in the long term, and provides far too little foresight to ever become sustainable. A lot of people agree, but they are split into groups that prevent enough action from being taken. The largest...

How To Tax

From: How To Tax (Original Story) Paul Graham recently posted (though apparently wrote some time ago) an interesting piece on the distribution of wealth. In the essay, he argues that variations of income can be a sign of progress, once past a certain tipping point. He...

Affirmitive Action: Why, Why Not

A look at some of the reasons why affirmitive action is justifiable, or not, as a social policy.Go to the original story

Community Dynamics and Emergent Systems in Reddit and Digg

Reddit and Digg are fun sites, but ever stop to think about how they work, and what's causing some stories to bubble up, and others not?  Sure it's democracy of a sort but it's more complicated than that.