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AgentBase.org as a website allows the in-browser editing and sharing of ABMs. These ABMs make use of the AgentBase library. This library is quite similar to AgentScript. The AgentB…

Cool to see the tinkering works for you! It is mesmerizing :) Do save your model as a new one if you want, makes it a one-click experience for visitors. (in an ideal scenario Agent…

A side-project that came out of my (ongoing) thesis work at Oxford. I model social movements, and how the Internet and Social Media might affect them. You can try a template model …

If you take the terms technically, it is private mass-transit. However, considering its function, it does cut directly into the market for public transport (that already is difficu…

Is this really happening? If it is, it brings up an interesting issue. Private public transport can out compete public transport. But then school buses already do this as well (com…

I don't know. If you can simulate a brain, you can alter it. And if you can alter it, you can make it artificially happy, or simply remove areas hosting willfulness, sleep, sexuali…

This looks like a brilliant way for spammers to collect e-mail addresses...

There could still be reasons for picking such a sample. 1) In the far future, when most direct hardships are a thing of the past our lives probably resemble those of Harvard studen…

It may not be from a business perspective. But in terms of whether the market is working its wonders, I'd say it is perfect. Consumers benefit because there is a lot of fierce comp…

Another fan here. Played them all a lot, from the original TA + expansions, TA Spring (loved how long-range bullets literally bounced back off the shields), and the Supreme Command…

True. It is a nice system we have (no school districts + full government funding for all schools based on nr of pupils they attract; also for denominational & other types of educat…

There are alternatives to home-schooling if one wants freedom (& without making every parent a teacher & both my parents had been teachers - not at my school when I was there -, so…

What surprises me here is that virtually all comments are about whether peasants really had many holidays. And not about the current situation (+ the macho 'my hours are longer tha…

Not in defence of laptop hobos, but the following is bs: > "For centuries cafes have been places where people go to meet, trade gossip, network and otherwise come together informal…

1) (Quite unclear what you mean by this statement) However government does much more than employ violence. In fact most government does has nothing to do with violence. Such as pro…

By being red at least 50% of the time (and making cars drive past fast & and making it an offence to cross the street even if there is no traffic (so in addition to watching the tr…

Am I the only one here who can see the fallacy in this? Government does not have unlimited power. Government is accountable, mostly democratically controlled power. It is, if there…

Free trade agreements bring more than just benefits. A nation/country is a bit like an ecosystem or a company, with its own interests, internal culture, customs, and market. Openin…

Wrote a paper on exactly such a website: http://wybowiersma.net/pub/essays/Wiersma,Wybo,A_global_advi...

I'd like to add a few points from my own experience: Cars: In America/Golden Gate Park, people take their car into the park! They even park it right there, right next to where they…

I don't agree. Good governance is possible, and size has little to do with it. If there is proper democratic control over government, government can be a force for good. Many north…

And if you lost faith in Congress, like 94% of Americans. You might also join a realistic effort to reform it: http://www.rootstrikers.org (ran by Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law pr…

Could not agree more. There is a reason 8-hour working days were instated, even for uncreative, manual labour. Most people, including most of the best, are simply more productive a…