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Pro-immigration op-ed includes an excellent history of US efforts to restrict migration through law, a process that starts by banning prostitutes and convicts, and eventually bans…well, lots of people
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Stats on immigration to the US from 1850 to 1990, based on census data. Clearly shows migration bulge around 1890, sharp fall off and recent increases.
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Excellent set of paired essays from Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff, examining the competitive future of the web versus more closed, but more advertiser-friendly, usable apps. Includes a graph of bandwidth usage that shows the rise of video, the fall of earlier tech like Usenet
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Excellent response to Friedman that argues that we're in a partly globalized world, and that most indicators suggest that markets are 10% international, 90% domestic, including investment capital, which we might presume would be the most mobile of forces.
In fact the Wired article is quite bad. The graph is misleading at many levels. I think Boing Boing showed another graph in absolute data. The bandwidth usage is a scale of 100% so it is the relative usage of bandwidth and indeed when the Web has been able to transport video (capacity) it sure will snap a bigger proportion (%) of the traffic. Video consumes a lot more bandwidth for the same information than texts. What the graph shows, is that the Web became really multimedia.
There are have been plenty of responses to this article. :) ok ;) I stop here my « someone is wrong on Internet »
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