Freedom Breaks

When it breaks , it breaks

Dependencies among software projects and libraries are an indicator of the often implicit collaboration among many developers in software ecosystems. Negotiating change can be tricky: changes to one module may cause ripple effects to many other modules that depend on it, yet insisting on only backwardcompatible changes may incur significant opportunity cost and stifle change. We argue that awar...

Freedom and Human Dignity

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Freedom of Association and Freedom of Expression

Kant's Four Notions of Freedom

Supersymmetry Breaks when Gauge Symmetry Breaks: Cybersusy I

This paper summarizes a new approach to supersymmetry breaking in the supersymmetric standard model (SSM). The approach arises from some remarkable features of the BRS cohomology for composite operators in the SSM, and the behaviour of those operators when gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken. A new realization of supersymmetry arises for these operators. This realization is equivalent to the...