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Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions ...
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"This Article explores patterns of legal-institutional change in theemerging, platform-driven economy. Its starting premise is that theplatform is not simply a new business model, a new social technology, or anew infrastructural formation (although it is also all of those things).Rather, it is the core organizational form of the emerging informatio...
"Part I describes the evolution of the platform as a mode of economic(re)organization and introduces the ways that platforms restructureboth economic exchange and patterns of information flow moregenerally. Part II explores some of the ways that actions andinterventions by and on behalf of platform businesses are reshapingthe landscape of legal ent...
A Polanyian Interpretation of Informational Capitalism
Julie Cohen: "In the book in progress from which this Article is adapted, I frame the emergence of informational capitalism in terms of three large-scale developments that parallel those identified by political economist Karl Polanyi as framing the emergence of industrial capitalism. Polanyi mapped a “great transformation” in the system of political economy that involved appropriation of newly important resources but that also moved on conceptual and organizational levels. The basic factors o...
Navneet Alang: "the Pirate Bay’s new “physibles” section seeks to spread digital 3D blueprints that people can, in theory at least, “print” at home, using 3D printing. If you’ve never heard of that before (and who would blame you?), 3D printers are machines that accept a blueprint for, say, a mug or a model car (or, as in this demo ...
1. COGNITIVE: self and community actualization, role, service, identity, and esteem. 2. PHYSICAL: water, food, housing, safety, and security. 3. SPIRITUAL: spirituality and life purpose. 4. EMOTIONAL: love, relationship, and belonging. The breath of life theory predicts that, if the relational worldview principles are out of balance within the ...
One Earth presents a novel biogeographical framework called Bioregions 2020, which builds upon the world’s 846 terrestrial ecoregional divisions (Dinerstein et al. 2017) to delineate 184 discreet bioregions. Two years in development, with input from an array of field scientists, conservation experts, and geographers, the Bioregions 2020 ...
Since use of the server does not imply that people can download a copy of the program, this means the modifications may never be released. Many programmers choose to use the GNU GPL to cultivate community development; if many of the modifications developed by the programs' users are never released, this can be discouraging for them.
Description. Tom Llewellyn: “When disasters occur, the majority of news coverage teeters on the edge of “disaster porn” at best, emphasizing the sheer mass of destruction in the affected area while celebrating a few token “heroes.”. At its worst, the media perpetuates harmful stereotypes, casting survivors as looters and justifying ...
