Tag: fraud
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— or, how a 4,000-year-old clay tablet explains why your gold dealer, magazine subscription, and Instagram feed are all part of the same story Let’s start with a man named Nanni. Around 1750 BCE, in the ancient city of Ur (modern-day Iraq), Nanni did what any aggrieved customer does today: he filed a complaint. His…
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This post is whimsical. Not to be confused with telecom engineering standards, but the underlying logic is the same as in our social ecology article. Have fun reading it! Telecom spam filters were supposed to solve a simple problem: stop fraudsters from flooding our phones with garbage calls. Instead, they have produced a surreal outcome:…
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Or: How the justice system prosecutes the honey seller and fines the bank, while the fraud lord walks 1. The Honey Seller and the Fraud Lord A small‑business owner sells honey online. A snowstorm delays the shipment by a week. The customer, furious that their weekend honey has not arrived, files a police report. The…
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An exercise in applied energy economics, social contagion theory, and the art of the reluctant rooftop installation ACT I: THE DEMAND SIDE – A LOT More Things That Need Power Finland today uses about 83 terawatt‑hours of electricity per year. That’s a lot. But the pipeline of new industrial projects we examined – data centres,…
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You have witnessed this scene. A sales agent – someone who sells solar panels, home batteries, and access to energy arbitration and the reservimarkkina (the reserve market for grid stability) – makes a factual, verifiable claim: “Since April, my customers on average have not paid anything for electricity. In fact, they have been paid to…