Timo Laine's Journal

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• Unless it is digital it is not real

  We now think that for something to be real to us its existence has to be verified digitally. Unless you are moving the cursor or typing text on the screen, you ...

  Timo Laine's Journal 22. toukokuuta 2012 klo 12:31

• The happy prince

  Is Barack Obama happy? Was Julius Caesar happy? It is not a common question to ask about the happiness of a political leader. It is more common to ask whether ...

  Timo Laine's Journal 22. marraskuuta 2011 klo 17:12

• The selfishness of selfishnesses

  Like everyone knows, Adam Smith thought that by acting selfishly, people end up working for the common good. This is the famous idea of the invisible hand. The ...

  Timo Laine's Journal 22. heinäkuuta 2011 klo 09:20

• In politics, sometimes it is better to be hated

  The True Finns’ (Perussuomalaiset in Finnish) victory in the Finnish parliamentary elections last week is clouded by hate in more than one sense. There are ...

  Timo Laine's Journal 23. huhtikuuta 2011 klo 21:56

• Machiavelli on consistency

  It is sometimes said that Niccolò Machiavelli was not Machiavellian. The idea is that the concept of Machiavellianism now has a life of its own and is not even ...

  Timo Laine's Journal 7. huhtikuuta 2011 klo 23:44

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