• About Vinay Gupta

    Vinay Gupta is a consultant on disaster relief and risk management.

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    Bothering Barnett on Biofuels

    by  • April 18, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    Commenting on http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/04/robbing_peters_meal_to_gas_pau.html I agree with you completely on hunger from biofuels. That’s been expected for a while. I wrote a paper predicting this scenario in 2003 and I was far, far from the first. Worse, biofuels are basically useless in the big picture unless you move to algae as a feedstock. Consider: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/311/5760/435 Which [...]

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    The tragedy of computer science.

    by  • April 16, 2008 • Personal • 2 Comments

    Faster computers do not make writing programs easier, any more than printing presses made it easier to write poetry. Vinay Gupta I’ve been trying to find a way of saying that for a while. Now, of course, conversely Computers which are too slow or too small for the problem at hand make programming harder because [...]

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    Transparency in Government Act of 2008

    by  • April 15, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    The foundation has posted its Transparency in Government Act of 2008 on the Web at publicmarkup.org and has invited the public to tweak, add to or criticize any aspect of the proposed bill. The goal, said Ellen Miller, executive director of the foundation, is to change the backroom, secretive way that legislation is typically passed [...]

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