More US Eyepoking of China with New Congresscritter Visit to Taiwan; What Will China Do Next?
The US is still escalanting with China over Taiwan. And China most assuredly is keeping score.
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An Unjustified Fear of Nuclear Energy Is Holding the Industry Back
Why consumers might have to reconcile themselves to much disliked nuclear energy as less bad than other options.
Read more...Chip Shortages And Inflation Are Plaguing The Auto Industry
Chip woes still bedevil carmakers, to the degree that auto quality ratings are down, particularly for preimum vehicles.
Read more...Australia’s Grand Plans to Export Solar – A Lesson from the ‘Gas Crisis’
By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher As perverse as it seems, achieving the dream of linking Australian renewable energy to Asian energy buyers may generate a household electricity crisis as artificial as the current gas crisis. As with LNG, large scale solar projects are set to largely, perhaps even entirely, bypass domestic […]
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-One: Uber’s Legitimate Cumulative Losses Top $32 Billion; P&L Improvements Driven by Much Higher Fares and Multi-Billion Dollar Transfers From Drivers to Shareholders
Even big fare hikes and cuts to driver pay have failed to produce profits at Uber. And these pricing changes are not likely to be sustainable.
Read more...Hubert Horan and Izabella Kaminska: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty: The “Uber Files” Are Not the Uber Exposé You Are Looking For
The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.
Read more...“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”
On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.
Read more...International Labor Organization Reports on Gig Worker Protest
Platform workers are well networked, with strengthening sinews of solidarity that transcend individual companies. It is also important to note that platform labour protest tends to emerge from the bottom up, particularly in the global South, where such protests are overwhelmingly led by informal groups of workers.
Read more...The Incredibly Cool James Webb Space Telescope
An exquisitely sensitive infrared astronomical observatory….
Read more...Leverage & Interconnectedness Are Blowing Up Crypto & DeFi
What’s different this time: Stuff blows up because of leverage and cascades through the crypto space because everything’s interconnected.
Read more...FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft
The US is really really out to heat things up with China…
Read more...Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate
Internet access may be boosting the desire to emigrate while reducing the costs of finding information on opportunities abroad
Read more...Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why Big Tech practices are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in.
Read more...Small Players Get Hammered in the Supply Chain Crunch: The Rotary Dumbphone Case Study
The tortous development/production process for Justine Haupt’s rotary dumbphone illusrates the obstacles to innovation in America.
Read more...How Many Bots Are on Twitter? The Question Is Difficult to Answer and Misses the Point
A disingenuous defense of Twitter bots.
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