“The nation state has survived wars, plagues, and upheaval, but it won’t survive digital nomads, not if people like Karoli Hindriks have something to say about it.”
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/17/digital-nomads-are-hiring-and-firing-their-governments/
“The legions of do-gooders who want to compel you and others to eat just what they think you should eat are—despite their persistence—failing miserably at their jobs.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/17/people-will-eat-what-they-want-not-what
“The ubiquitous presence of law enforcement in public schools has led to serious infringements of students’ Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, and it has increased the likelihood that minor disputes between students will escalate into criminal justice issues.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/15/parkland-florida-shooting-cops-schools
“Government officials, hiding behind classified material, can easily inflate and even create so-called threats, and they have an obvious incentive to do so.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/18/peace-through-strength-is-a-racket
“New South Wales’ authorities deactivated the card under Meow-Meow’s name after his surgery in April 2017 made headlines. However, since the chip implanted in his hand wasn’t registered to him, he was able to use it for almost a whole year — only downside was that he sometimes had to swipe his palm over the scanner more than once. It was only after he traveled back to Australia from a cyborg convention in the US that authorities were successfully able to cut off the card he’s been using.”
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/15/implanted-transit-pass-deactivated-australia/
“Data centers may use more energy than all of the country’s homes in 2018, Johann Snorri Sigurbergsson from Icelandic energy company HS Orka told the BBC. Bitcoin mining thrives in Iceland, where energy is cheap, and internet connections use super fast fiber-optic networks. Additionally, Iceland’s cold climate plays an important role in ensuring crypto utilities don’t overheat.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/iceland-bitcoin-mines-are-booming-2018-2
“Who’d a-thunk it? Americans vote with their feet because they value jobs, economic freedom and prosperity, entrepreneurship, lower taxes, and less government over the opposite?”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/americans-are-voting-with-their-feet-for-economic-freedom/
“A study of the out-migration by Joint Venture Silicon Valley says workers are moving to Sacramento, Austin, and Portland due to a number of factors. But topping the list is the high cost of housing.”
“These screenshots present a stunning display of unprofessional behavior not just by rank-and-file employees but managers and even a senior vice president, including overt discrimination, prejudice on the basis of race and gender, conflation of dissenting political views with racism and sexism, punishment of those who asked questions about what behavior was permitted, endorsement of politically motivated violence, and even an attack on the very notion of truth itself.”
Read more: http://quillette.com/2018/02/01/lawsuit-exposes-internet-giants-internal-culture-intolerance/
“Uber, Lyft, and several other firms critically involved in self-driving cars have their own ideas about how to improve personal transport — and one of the biggest involves you not being allowed to drive your car at all.”
