A Case Against “All-Inclusive Lease”

Posted on January 31, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

There are different rental lease models w.r.t the structure of your monthly bill. Typically, I have been having the model where a fixed monthly rent was separate from a variable bill for the utilities, e.g. gas, electric, water, cable. In two occasions, including the current rental agreement, the total rent is fixed and includes the [...]

Environmental Awareness

Posted on January 25, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

Thinking around environmental economics is starting to be my favorite spare time activity. Not entirely sure if that’s a good thing :> I have been writing about democratization of consumption data, the idea of providing accurate and real-time data and information on individual consumption of natural resources to consumers. Data on individual consumption — today [...]

First Article On Wikipedia

Posted on January 21, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

Today, I started my first article on Wikipedia, on Environmental Informatics. Environmental Informatics has been around for awhile but Wikipedia had no page for it. I don’t think, there is a reason not to have an article for Environmental Informatics so I started one with a tentative description adapted from Hilty et al. The article [...]

The State Of World Religion

Posted on January 18, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

Recently, I watched Religulous, a documentary with a hint of comedy in which Bill Maher exposes his “take on the current state of world religion.” Maher clearly has his opinion and he does a good job in advertising the one-sided rationale, sometimes by demonstrating it with particularly easy targets (e.g. folks at a theme park). [...]

New Blog Features

Posted on January 15, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

This post is dedicated to some of the new features I recently deployed. First, however, I would like to thank the open source community for the uncountable lines of software code it has written and published and for freedom as the freedom to modify code such that it best fits own needs is, I argue, [...]

A Spot From Which I Make Sense

Posted on January 13, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

Recently, I stumbled across the Summers memo (Wikipedia). It is actually only an excerpt of the original. I think, this doesn’t matter as the excerpt is informative and provocative enough. The memo was written by Lawrence Summers in 1991 while he was Chief Economist of the World Bank. A few days ago, I forwarded the [...]

On The Affinity Of Individuals

Posted on January 3, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

I was inspired to finally write about something I have been wondering on and off in quite some time without ever finding a train of thought that seemed promising in leading to an answer; the question whether we — human beings — are (rather) similar or dissimilar. This problem shows up when I’m generalizing or [...]

 

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