Marc Andreesen wrote a post in 2014. 4 years have slipped by, lets revisit it and annotate “[A]dvocating for slowing technological change to preserve jobs equals advocating for the punishment of [ … ]
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Uber IPO. No questions asked
I don’t get invited to any of the glitzy Uber soirees. No open bar for me. This is because I don’t drink and I do ask questions. Had I been invited [ … ]
A.I. Tech oligarchs, end of the world’ers and killer robot dogs
Human intellect is the source of many of its own problems. Errors in thinking and biases. Will express itself in AI, robots. Resistance isn’t futile. AI fulfills that dread of [ … ]
How to launder money thru Walmart and Amazon
If I am laundering money, this how I would do it I would walk into a Walmart, request a MoneyCard. I would load some money on that card. The Walmart, [ … ]
Amazon and Walmart. Retail Post-mortem
Amazon and Walmart are eating the retail world. This is the post mortem. (Definition: when relevant, I’ll be using the financial abbreviation of GMV. GMV is a measure of goods that [ … ]
Gig economy companies, don’t hold your breath
The California Supreme Court recently ruled in Dynamex Operations W. v. Super. Gig economy workers had a big win Gig economy companies had a big loss The decision is significant as [ … ]
Basecoin
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have to solve three important problems if they are to become currencies: Unstable values High transactions costs Anonymity Basecoin is trying to resolve that first problem, unstable values. [ … ]
Regulating Digital Currencies
Digital currencies have caught the high-level attention of international financial policymakers. For the first time, finance ministers and central bank governors of the G-20 have called for coordinated action on [ … ]
The American refugees fleeing the tyranny of taxes
The Pensions of Public Employees vs. The Taxed Few (also known as ‘politicians over-promising benefits to public employees and ignoring fiscal realities’) Bills come due, the politicians who cashed on [ … ]
Beware the ides of our national debt
There are debt collectors you can ignore until they go away and can merely do something vengeful on your credit reports. And then there is another type. The graph is [ … ]