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fiat

For traders to use a model such as Black–Scholes is not like a medieval monarch making someone an outlaw by saying that they are an outlaw: no mathematical fiat.

why is this sentence so pretty!!!

—p.101 Counterperformativity (97) by Alice Bamford, Donald MacKenzie
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bricolage

Mathematical models are, after all, bricolage constructions inscribed with curdled utopias

pretty use

—p.99 Counterperformativity (97) by Alice Bamford, Donald MacKenzie
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whether data are collected by governments or by companies

What do you think about the idea of creating socialized alternatives to the data-hoarding tech giants—as mooted in these pages by Evgeny Morozov?

I think it makes little difference whether data are collected by governments or by companies, because either way the data menace whistleblowers and …

—p.90 Talking to the Mailman (69) by Richard M. Stallman
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there are various ethical issues in life

[...] there are various ethical issues in life. If you look at a store, for example, there are different ethical questions that can arise, and you wouldn’t expect that one requirement would fix them all. For instance, the store can mistreat the staff. The solution to that might be to encourage unio…

—p.88 Talking to the Mailman (69) by Richard M. Stallman