artifacts (was Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee_

Mon Feb 22 20:41:45 UTC 2010

Hmmm.  While it's easy and reasonable to call these externalities, I suspect a 
good case could be made that they are not, since they affect the principals, as 
well as everyone else...

I'm confused by the reference to archaic, structured balloons...

d/

ps.  "Creative misunderstanding is also a convenient refuge." -- dcrocker

On 2/22/2010 12:24 PM, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
>
> On Feb 22, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
>
>> On 2/22/2010 9:35 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>>> I have been wondering about that too--the Internet may be the only
>>> artifact of human existence that is generally border insensitive (with
>>> exceptions we don't need to enumerate).
>>
>>
>> Pollution.
>>
>> Global warming.
>>
>> Nuclear fallout.
>
> Externalities are the last refuge of the dirigistes." -- Friedrich Hayek

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