Edward Snowden says that the most important aspect of social media is that you can get things out directly.– You can take the story and simply quote the relevant part, simply signaling … Continue reading Edward Snowden interview with Dagens Nyheter
You can run a budget deficit and lower your debt burden simultaneously It looks like the Economist is slowly starting to understand how money works. Source: What Britain forgets: Why running a … Continue reading Why running a budget deficit can reduce the national debt
A UK-based researcher’s project shows the information that’ll be available about you without a warrant if the new Investigatory Powers Bill comes into force New law in the UK will require ISP’s … Continue reading Researcher’s public browsing history demos anti-privacy law
A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end. Although robots will replace jobs … Continue reading AI Robots replacing the workforce today? Not yet, but we must prepare for it today.
$250,000 for a four year degree? And we’re not talking Harvard here. Source: The cost of a single course at the 10 most expensive colleges in the US Continue reading The actual cost of your college degree is a lot more than you thought
From Reddit: heart_BURN I don’t think there is enough talk about this. You think the 08 housing bubble was bad? Wait until the housing market crashes when all of the traditional middle … Continue reading Student loans now second biggest source of personal debt in the U.S., trailing only mortgages.
Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise Source: What’s Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise Continue reading What’s Really Warming the World?
The FBI’s general council, James Baker, told a conference that the bureau will stop “magical thinking” and halt plans for a backdoor into consumer technology. Source: The FBI says it has given … Continue reading The FBI says it has given up on trying to get backdoors into encryption software
“‘Fat’ may be the new normal in America,” declares WalletHub in its latest report. More than three-quarters of American adults are now overweight or obese, according to a study by JAMA Internal Medicine, cited … Continue reading Obese is the new normal in America
Indeed, far from being something that has been employed only by reigning officials, encryption has been used by civilians, businesspeople, and revolutionaries—including the Founding Fathers of the United States—for centuries. If the … Continue reading Crypto is For Everyone—and American History Proves It
Came across this post in Reddit this morning, there the person wrote: [TIL – Today I Learned] in 2003, the US sugar industry lobbied congress to block a WHO report which would set … Continue reading Sugar industry threatens World Health Organization and gets its way
The one taboo of economics that the government is hiding from the public is the fact that if the government balances its books, it becomes impossible for the private sector to do … Continue reading David Graeber: what the government doesn’t want you to know about debt
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