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Description. Hanzi Freinacht: "“Protopia” is another recent term, coined by futurist Kevin Kelly and it is defined as the opposite of a “Dystopia”. In Dystopia, people are stuck in some kind of recurring pattern of suffering (like George Orwell’s “foot trampling a human face — for ever”, as in 1984). A Protopian society, then ...
The long tail of the English language—the original application of Zipf's Law—would be the several hundred thousand words that you hardly ever encounter, such as "floriferous" or "refulgent." Taking popularity as a rough measure of value (at least to booksellers like Amazon), then the value of each individual item is given by Zipf's Law.
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"By analogy with abuses based on race and gender, abuse based on rank is given the name rankism. Once you have a name for it, you see rankism at the heart of many infringements of human rights, far away or close to home. Rankism is the root cause of indignity, injustice, and unfairness. Choosing the term rankism, places the goal of universal human ...
Text by Robert W. Fuller: "The idea of a universal right to dignity seems too simple to pull together the disparate elements of this divided nation, but it’s not. Dignity is what people want, on the left, on the right, and most importantly, in the vast, non-ideological middle. Dignity is not negotiable. People will stand up for their dignity and on...
Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RankismRobert Fuller's blog is at http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/See for his biography: Fuller, Robert.Print interview with Robert Fuller on DignitarianismBio 1. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Mozi’s teaching is summed up in ten theses extensively argued for in the text that bears his name, although he himself is unlikely to have been its author. The most famous of these theses is the injunction that one ought ...
1. Excerpted from Zelalem Tesfaye Sirna: "The Gadaa system is an indigenous egalitarian democratic system practiced among the Oromo nation of East Africa for the last six hundred years. Among other structural elements of Gadaa system is its legislative body commonly known as Gadaa General Assembly. The assembly takes place under a sycamore tree ...
2008年5月26日 · While Internet is an old technology, since it was first deployed in the U.S. in 1969, it was only in the 1990s, with the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee and the privatization of the Internet by the U.S. Defense Department, that it became a mass medium. From 9 million users in 1995 it went to over 1 billion users in 2007.
The application is a smart contract on Polygon that forwards Crowdstakers' DAI into an interest generating Aave lending pool. 100% of the generated interest gets sent to the Breadchain Cooperative which is controlled democratically by its members.
