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I try to never comment on a Youtube video unless its a positive comment for a creator. There's literally no point in angrily replying to some random keyboard warrior about US economics on Youtube. Same with FOX News comments, and I guess really all social media. Most o...
First, if you don't know what I'm talking about, read this. This post is not an in-depth discussion of what cryptocurrencies are, how they work, or why you might want to care.
If I had stuck with it then I'd be rich now
The first time I tried my hand at mining for cryptocurrency was back in 2...
There are many reasons so many folks who work the web are opposed to these bills. Beyond the fears of enshrining government sponsored censorship (ala China) which could easily kill your access to non-American news media (especially important in a crisis) and stifling innovation (by creating a preca...
Bill Clinton on the Daily Show discussing how he would approach the problems in the economy. I hope the Dems are listening because everything he said makes sense. I definitely had a "Miss Me Yet?" moment watching this.
- Focus on where the jobs are: small business, manufacturing, and clean en...
Why don't we just abolish the income tax all together since the only people who are paying it are poor working slobs anyway. As this Bloomberg article from May details, major corporations are using loopholes in the tax laws to avoid paying what conservatives like to call the "high US tax rate" (a...
The health care bill makes it compulsory for all Americans to buy private insurance in the free market which in and of itself is an incredible irony. What's so free about a market where you are forced to buy something? There are many who don't think the solution that passed is Constitutional becau...
I've been poking around a bit on Prison Planet lately, thats a website run by Alex Jones, a radio talk show host who has been described as a "paleoconservative" whatever thats supposed to mean. Paleo means old, so I assume it's being used to create a distance from the "neocons" (meaning New C...
Hans Rosling, a physician and professor of global health from Sweden recently gave a talk at the US State Dept. entitled Let My Dataset change your midset illustrated by the free software he and his son developed called Gapminder. He explains how the data (which he thanks the US for compiling...
The New York Times has a story about how energy secretary Steven Chu says the US can easily save as much as 20% of our national energy costs for air conditioning. The solution isn't rocket science - just make sure that buildings in the south have white roofs. Since dark roofs absorb more sunligh...
