How much are they putting toward hospital beds, ventilators, test kits, and other measures to control the public health crisis before instead spending it on mitigating the impact on the economy and the

Nice post. Add to this the new phenomenon of the social media echo chamber, so we never have to even hear opinions we disagree with, outside of the context of straw-man arguments from voices within it.

With any luck these guys will be about as effective at banning bitcoin as they were at repealing and replacing the ACA.

Nobel Prize-winning economists Angus Deaton and Danny Kahneman at Princeton University published a study a few years back and came up with a figure of $75,000 USD/annum as the point at which happiness

I take offense to the term “Jessitically Correct.” We prefer “Jessder fluid.” As in “I wish that I had Jesse’s non-binary...where can I find a ?????? like that...”. Thank you very much.

Satoshi Labs is a faucet site that lets you reinvest your earnings to upgrade your "lab", and you get a certain amount per hour based on your "production". I haven't taken anything

I actually HAD that job for half of one summer when I was in college (university.) it was selling b2b products, so not calling people at home but rather interrupting them at work. I had to stick to a script

Plumbers are pretty safe. Lots of "less prestigious" jobs that require skills moving through three-dimensional space and unpredictable chaotic environments. Information processing (myself included)

Speaking of showing one’s age: recall the 1990’s with Web 1.0 and we all had HTML homepages, pre-Facebook, pre-Google. And the much-reviled Microsoft had all the same accusations of monopolistic practices

I like this chart! Although I would kind of like to see BTC go at least 30% down the brontosaurus' neck one more time before going to the moon, because I have a portfolio of mostly altcoins that I was

But if someone is out of shape and in the process of losing the extra pounds by exercising, then good for them. I'm not a fan of buying workout clothes (or unnecessary purchases for fashion or outward

Thanks for reading! I am an amateur myself, with only peripheral exposure to "real" AI in my IT profession. Workforce automation is a big problem, but I agree about the algorithms being the greatest

Great read. I agree completely that the job loss to automation is coming fast and people in the US in particular and in the world in general are in for serious upheaval. Part of the problem is that automation

Great post. I think (at least in the US) there is a lot of cultural and political opposition to UBI due to the misconception that it's a free lunch for those who refuse to work. But especially as the jobs