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Sick of winning yet? This week there has been quite a few articles about the tariff war we’re heading towards. I am no economist but my understanding of history in regards to protectionist trade wars is that such wars hurt the economy. We suffered such protectionist trade wars during the ‘30s which might have prolonged…
Why would anybody outsource elderly care to a private equity firm? Private equity firms do not have health care expertise; their expertise is in extracting cash out of a business. They don’t really offer any innovative solutions and instead rely on loading up companies with debt. In this day and age of constant disruption, that’s…
Just came across some more articles on what the tax cut is doing for us. Harley Davidson, whose mission is “fulfilling dreams”, is setting aside its tax cut for the expense of outsourcing jobs to Thailand and giving money (and plus more) back to the shareholders via stock buybacks. Nothing in there about hiring more…
So, soon the walls will really have ears. The latest article on our machines listening to us would be funny if such as scenario didn’t feel like an impending dystopian future. This incident was purely accidental, but in the hands of an authoritarian regime (Putin? Xi Jinping? Viktor Orban? Trump?), such listening devices would be…
Fake news is alive and well. I read last Friday that within 20 minutes of disclosure of the school shooter’s identity, people were creating fake Facebook accounts in the shooter’s name and making false implications about him, such as any alliance with the antifas or alliance with Hillary or alliance with Trump, etc. First, why…
I appear to be going through a stretch where whatever I do, I’m not happy with: either it looks or works awful or just doesn’t plain work or it just takes too long. Any idea I have just doesn’t come like the way I imagine it. Anyway I still have to push on. I’m currently…