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We consider the problem of fairly allocating a bundle of infinitely divisible goods among a group of agents with “classical” preferences. We propose to measure an agent’s “sacrifice” at an allocation by the size of the set of feasible bundles that the agent prefers to her consumption. As a solution, we select the allocations at which sacrifices are equal across agents and this common sacrifice ...

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Let Them Eat Data 1 Let Them Eat Data Assignment – 05 Jason

BACKGROUND: This paper has discussed some of the criticisms made by the author C. A. Bowers. The reader will find claims that computer-based culture is becoming an even more destructive form of colonialism. Technology has failed largely in universities, and there is a need for a radically different approach to technology. The reader will learn of ecological and environmental problems that have ...

Let Them Eat Junk: Capitalism and Food

Rob Albritton’s Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity (2009), published by Arbeiter Ring Press in Canada, and Pluto Press in the UK, offers a welcome and urgently needed analysis of “how the profit fixation of capital has led us deeply into a dangerously unsustainable system of food provision, a system that totally fails when it comes to distributive justice and to human ...

Efficient Synchronization: Let Them Eat QOLB1

Efficient synchronization primitives are essential for achieving high performance in fine-grain, shared-memory parallel programs. One function of synchronization primitives is to enable exclusive access to shared data and critical sections of code. This paper makes three contributions. (1) We enumerate the five sources of overhead that locking synchronization primitives can incur. (2) We descri...