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Do The Rich Get All The Gains?
You’ve probably seen a picture like this before, incomes corrected for inflation measuring how much stuff people can buy and how that changes over time. The rich get richer. And the poor get poorer.…
How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?
Chocolate bars, cashmere nightgowns, and a tireless work ethic help.
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Ip on carbon tax
Over the weekend, Greg Ip at WSJ wrote a nice piece on the carbon tax . Greg addresses some common objections. This urge to stop at no...
MEISSER ECONOMICS
May 03, 2019 I am extremely honored to be listed as a co-author of the legal article Aktien-Token (share tokens) along with H.C. von der Crone and Martin Monsch. The article was published in the…
How California’s high-speed rail project was ‘captured’ by costly consultants
When California shifted its bullet train plan into high gear in 2008, it had just 10 employees to manage and oversee design of the largest public construction project in state history.
Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz…
Rental firm fuming after consultancy 'never delivered a functional site or mobile app'
«Republik»: Mühe mit den eigenen Lesern
Je unübersichtlicher die Welt wird, desto mehr Übersichtlichkeit verlangen die Leser. Aber wenn alle die Geschichten, Meinungen und Analysen allzu vorhersehbar werden, dann leidet der Journalismus.…
Why software projects take longer than you think
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when…
Taki's Mag
Why is heightism barely a term in 2019? Because it is more often women discriminating against men over height than men discriminating against women.
Status as a Service (StaaS)
Editor's Note 1 : I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2 : I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one . My long break…
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mdy"Status derives value from some type of scarcity. What is the one fundamental scarcity in the age of abundance? User attention"
mdy"Every network has some ceiling on its ultimate number of contributors, and it is often a direct function of its proof of work."
Blockchain Milestone: Selling Tokenized Equity Made Easy
Three startups achieved something that might be one of the true game-changers, born out of the blockchain technology: Tokenized equity…
Last time CO2 levels were this high, there were trees at the…
Pilocene beech fossils in Antarctica when CO2 was at similar level to today point to planet’s future
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Luzius MeisserInterestingly, the relationship between CO2 and temperature is not linear. In the Jurassic period, for example, CO2 levels were five times as high as today, but temperatures only 3 degree warmer.
Peter Thiel: «Donald Trump handelt für mich zu wenig disruptiv»
Er zählt zu den Pionieren des Digitalzeitalters. Er will den Tod abschaffen. Und er ist überzeugt: Die globale Wirtschaft stagniert seit Jahrzehnten. Im grossen Gespräch erklärt Peter Thiel, warum…
Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon
Plans to triple the area of plantations will not meet 1.5 °C climate goals. New natural forests can, argue Simon L. Lewis, Charlotte E. Wheeler and colleagues.
So läuft der Stimm-Bschiss bei Novartis+CS
Rundschau deckte falsche Adressaten auf – Tagi zeigt: Auch bei CS und Nestlé – Hier die Fake-Couverts.
Verstoss gegen demokratisches Grundprinzip
Der Bundesrat setzt den Stimmbürger mit der Vorlage Steuerreform/AHV unter Druck, einem Tauschhandel zuzustimmen, schreibt FuW-Redaktor Peter Morf.
On the referendum #21: Branching histories of the 2016 referendum and ‘the…
‘Politics is gambling for high stakes with other people’s money… Politics is a job that can be compared with navigation in uncharted waters. One has no idea how the weather or the currents wi…
Less listing
Torsten Slok at DB sent along this lovely graph. The underlying paper "Eclipse of the Public Corporation or Eclipse of the Public Marke...
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Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the Christchurch Mosque Massacre
On Friday, March 15th, one or more gunmen opened fire in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. As I write this, three men and one woman have been taken into custody by local law enforcement. It is…
Haruki Murakami on Reading What Everyone Else is Reading
Haruki Murakami explains why if you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
«Die Schweiz sollte der EU ein Rahmenabkommen anbieten»
Nick Hayek hat sich zum Deal mit der EU geäussert – mit überraschendem Inhalt. Warum erst jetzt? «Es hat mich niemand gefragt», sagt der Swatch-Chef.