Nations that attempt to limit cryptocurrencies’ ability to solve these problems will find that protecting high costs and systemic friction will grind their economies into dust. There’s a great deal [ … ]

We have changed. What we are now is all those algorithms. An algorithmic culture that is devotional. We supplicate ourselves to computers that have replaced gods in our minds, even [ … ]

There must be such a thing as socialized medicine, but no-one is exactly sure what it ‘is’. We know all the things that it isn’t. Include in that long list [ … ]

What if a company is on both sides of the market of law? What if it exercises juridical (administration of the law) power, being not only a party to a conflict, but [ … ]

“Less-educated workers are disproportionately likely to move up the job ladder during expansions, but they also slide down during downturns.” This is from Dwyer Gunn at the NBER Digest: Exploring [ … ]

At the start of 2015, YouTube began its online ‘safe space’, YouTube Kids. Architected for children and assured with child-appropriate entertainment. At first glance the videos are normal, the parents [ … ]

Bitcoin consumes energy, and that, my suddenly capitalist friend, comes from coal. As your destroying third world countries, let’s visit one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mines in the Inner [ … ]

BREAKING NEWS: Facebook friends aren’t experts in all things. MORE BREAKING NEWS: Zimbabweans are not paying $5000 more per bitcoin than everyone else. Zimbabwe is no longer on a U.S. [ … ]

Last year, Ankit Panda at The Diplomat noted the significance of a high-level North Korea–China meeting in June 2016. Ri Su-yong, Korean Workers’ Party (KWP) Politburo member and a former [ … ]

Cyber-security, cover-ups and this guy… Joe Sullivan was the head of security for Uber, the same title he held at his previous employer, Facebook. His major accomplishment while at Uber, [ … ]