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I read Children of Time and got me thinking that the Fermi paradox might not be so much of a paradox. In ~200 years we went from harnessing electricity for the first time to being …

Alice has *£1M* in life savings and deposits it in NatWest. The government needs funds for a project, so it instructs the Treasury to issue a *£1M bond* that pays *2% interest annu…

The author is romanticizing a past that never was. A deep sense of melancholy clouds his writing. I always find it puzzling how some pathologies manage to disguise themselves as wi…

I guess human generated code will become a hazard for companies in the (near?) future...

The theory of evolution is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, helping us understand the past, present, and future. Although evolution typically operates over tens of thousand…

I was thinking what Amazon, Uber, Spotify, YouTube, Booking.com, Airbnb, App Stores, Delivery apps, etc. have in common and I realized they all follow the same recipe: 1. Index Sup…

If you had to design a brand new tax system for a new country, would you use a developed country tax system as scaffolding? I think a simpler and fully transparent system can be ac…