Today, I was replying to a friend on Facebook about his remark on widespread corruption in his country.
From that, while writing my reply, I started re-thinking about something else: why do we have corruption?
Because we have rules that somebody is willing to circumvent- and somebody else able to let them do it.
And why? Because too many laws and rules are built to regulate something that is already available.
I am now ignoring the “details” of the difference between common law and countries following the Napoleonic approach, because, in our globalized world, also “laissez faire” countries are increasingly regulating tiny details. Either directly or via reporting/control rules.
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XXI Century libraries and search engines
Thursday, May 21st, 2009XXI century encyclopedias and knowledge processing.
How Google, WolframAlpha, Wikipedia, and Eurostat process a query.
Or: models of knowledge processing and distribution.
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