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 [ … ]
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Exploring the Job Ladder to High-Productivity Firms
“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 [ … ]
Children in the henhouse and YouTube is the wolf
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 mining and fossil fuels. If you buy, sell or mine, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM
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 [ … ]
Bitcoin. Zimbabwe and the dollar
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. [ … ]
The Song Tao Visit
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 [ … ]
Uber turpitude. Legal crooks do legal crimes
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, [ … ]
Orwell and Orwellian. Propaganda today becomes the truth tomorrow
“History stopped in 1936” – George Orwell,Looking back on the Spanish War According to George Orwell, it was during his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War for the Republican side against [ … ]
The 2017 Bank of England Stress Tests – What to Expect
Key points The key issue is and always was the (lack of) resilience of the UK banking system. It is mathematically impossible to take a weak banking system, subject it [ … ]
Amazon is taking NYC’s lunch money
Amazon is the elephant, we are the blind men gathered around it, each feeling a different part and none in agreement with ‘what it is’. I walk around it and [ … ]