#World

Analogies between how things are made in the software world and how things are made in the non-software world are fraught. Software is different, and an analogy that shares one
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It's amazing to me that's it's a disputed point whether or not brain size might predict intelligence in humans. In practically every aspect of life where smarts are an advantage
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Today is IP day. For mappers, the other 364 are - "Thank heavens that Wardley didn't try to own mapping through IP otherwise no-one would be mapping and there wouldn't
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The world’s richest person wants help on how to give away his hundreds of billions of dollars.https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347356316763705344 A brewing partnership here potentially between Elon Musk, the world’s richest person,
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8. My key aim in this thread is simply to try to stem the tendency of frustrated people to say 'who are these crazy conspiracy supporters?' They aren't crazy. They
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One of the many great challenges in planning a history curriculum is spotting our own blind spots and gaps. Often, it is only w hindsight informed by current events, issues
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Did corn/maize influence the English/German word crop, "top of plant (or field whip)"? How colonial/imperial is the expression "ear of corn" (corn on top)? Did the Aztec/Maya refer to maize
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An alternative phasing of #bitcoin : lottery ticket → insurance → lifeboat → moneyBitcoin started as an optional and massive "asymmetric bet" (@real_vijay) that anyone could place on the future of money. The
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A tragedy called English1. Out of India's 100 crore eligible population only 12 crore can read, write and speak English, which means remaining 88 crores dont have access to global
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Their Goals - NWO - THREAD"The New World Order, although it's not really, it's called the New World Order, it's an old, old idea of having a controlled and planned
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We dug into India’s mysteriously low coronavirus fatality figures. We found both misreported deaths and signs of “excess” unexplained deaths linked to the pandemic /1https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-
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I've concluded that the real problem is that bitcoiners don't understand basic microeconomics. So here's a bit of a primer. 1/ Scarcity is a function of demand, and it affects
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There is a very simple problem with all proposals about reforming the international system and specifically the institutions we generally think of as the bedrocks of the international system. Let's
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Covid19 is genuinely unpredictable. It will spare a country/region and then suddenly reappear in full rage. For almost a year it seemed that East & SE Asia had controlled it,
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I want to be careful that this is not perceived as "calling out", but this is an important issue that is easy to gloss over, and it matters. Please don't
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I'm not suspicious about claims of racism. I believe it is real. I believe it exists in individuals, in structures, in juries, in employment, in churches, and all over.I'm pretty
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