Terence Kealey wrote one of the best economic books I have read in a while, and he is here today to give your lecture of the week. The topic is why government does not need to fund science and technology, and why doing so is a bad thing…
that literally nothing you do on the internet is secret. If you use Tor, 5 VPNs, and 3 levels of encryption, chances are the NSA can hack through the lines of code to determine what you are doing, or the company whose software/hardware you are using has already given them a free pass. Apple did.…
DetailsWhat comes next? Your lecture of the week has some guesses. H/t to Mr. Chhor on this one…
but this is spot on: For decades now in America we have been witnessing a steady and sickening denigration of humanistic understanding and humanistic method. We live in a society inebriated by technology, and happily, even giddily governed by the values of utility, speed, efficiency, and convenience. The technological mentality that has become the American…
DetailsHere is a glimpse of similar themes. h/t KKairos:
Things from all over… 81.5% of Money Created through Quantitative Easing Is Sitting There Gathering Dust … Instead of Helping the Economy. and QE isn’t working!!! Mass shootings have an ever-clearer link, not to videogames or gun ownership, but to pharmaceutical drugs. Terrifying. Elizabeth Warren has no clue what she is meddling with, economically speaking.…
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