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LEAKS

                                             July 12, 2011

  Everything leaks.
  All reeds are weak.

  From these unreliable
  components we must build.           Networks are
                                      stronger than
                                      chains.


     Freeman Dyson speaks favorably
     of wikipedia... everyone complains       Similar to things such as the
     of it's unreliability and yet all        scientific process, which is
     use it.                                  hardly infallible, but
                                              extremely useful in any case.

     "The New York Times": one of the
     greatest newspapers in the world,
     clearly we would be worse of
     without it... and yet, just when
     you begin to trust it you get
     some yellow cake in the face.



        Wikileaks, thumbs up or down?
        thumbs up, at least provisionally: its
        short term effects have been positive.

        Do we want to rely on it-- or something
        like it-- forever?  Is it a key piece
        of the infrastructure of the future
        or just a hack that we need at present?



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