And now for something completely different. I’ve had enough of blogging about the debt ceiling and US fiscal problems. Have some weekend math blogging. Earlier this year, as I was reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, I got interested in mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, who appears as a character in the book. I looked [...]

Tags: Cantor, cardinality of the continuum, math, Petzold, set theory, Stephenson, The Annotated Turing, transfinite numbers, Turing
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Via Roderick Long, this New York Times article documents the fascinating case of Gurgaon, a quasi-anarchic city of 1.5 million people in India. While the city is subject to state and national law, there is no municipal government to speak of. Services are provided by an archipelago of private communities. In between the private communities [...]

Tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, Bitcoin, Gurgaon, Long, seasteading, Snow Crash, Stephenson, Tabarrok, The Voluntary City
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