Society

Socrates is considered the "Father of Western Philosophy," but perhaps that honorific should go to Plato.

The Revolt project develops a communications platform aimed at creating an open source analogue of the proprietary Discord messenger. Like Discord, the Revolt platform is focused on creating platforms for organizing communication between communities and groups with common interests. Revolt allows you to run your own communication server at its facilities and, if necessary, ensure its integration with a website

In all the enthusiasms, arguments and panics around tech, Apple is the $2tn elephant in the corner, mostly silent and serenely indifferent to the news cycle. It just ships - and it ships market-leading products, with metronomic precision, at massive scale, on a decade-long strategic roadmap. It also

Apps can cut transmission of SARS-CoV-2-but how do we ensure that they don’t exacerbate public health inequities?

Understanding Apple’s victory in Apple v. Epic, and the limitations of the injunction on anti-steering provisions.

Until relatively recently, it was a common sight.

This is weird at first glance, and even weirder when you start to think about it: In California's state prisons, a federal judge could order all correctional employees and inmate firefighters to be vaccinated under a class-action lawsuit. In mid-July, 41% of correctional officers statewide had at least one dose of a vaccine, compared to 75% of inmates.  I'm racking my brain for

1/ Why is “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) an early threat to trillions of dollars of market cap - Visa (almost $500B), MasterCard ($350B), card issuing banks, acquiring banks/services (Fiserv, FIS, Global Payments, etc)?

While adoption studies have provided key insights into the influence of the familial environment on IQ scores of adolescents and children, few have fo…

Market and State in Eighteenth-Century Britain

With these vaccines as our only real defense, we may survive the virus living among us, but the virus among us may survive as well.

As the pandemic deepens inequality, it’s vital to dismantle the system that gives state schools no chance against elite peers

A refill economy, whereby we bring our own vessels to hubs that dispense consumables rather than buying new packaging each time, would go a long way to reducing single-use plastic. Whether you're urban or rural, the concept isn't difficult to grasp. When I was in Manhattan, you could bring a

The questionable widespread technical interview process has it's roots in a cold war era approach that was pioneered by a public proponent of eugenics. Minorities suffer the most from the industry continuing to use this long disproved ritual of conformity. William Shockley who won a Nobel Prize for his invention

Many remember the Onion headlines and the wave of war movies that followed, but the impact of 9/11 on pop culture went deeper—and often off the radar.

Hunter S. Thompson predicts a 'guerilla warfare on a global scale' between the United States and the merciless fanatics responsible for the four plane crashes Tuesday.

Why the products you use every day, especially electronics, might come with parts or functions you weren’t expecting or have no actual use for.

The twentieth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2021 are a good time to reflect on the world we’ve built since then. Those attacks caused incalculable heartbreak, anger and fear. But by now it is clear that far too many things that were put into place in the immediate aftermath of the...

Mannequin breaks the rules of gay best friends.

Can we expect it to be a documentary of the current sequence of capitalism? This I very much doubt.

Hindsight is 20/20, particularly when you have had 20 years to think about what happened.

Zapier’s Justin Pot observes that we’re at an inflection point. “Hustle used to be seen as good in itself, but we’re all slowly understanding that it isn’t. That hard work isn’t its own reward, and productivity isn’t the point.”

Do our levels of risk aversion change as the week goes on? Dr Rob Jenkins investigates.

A luxury good is one where the price paid is much higher than the apparent utility it offers. We pay extra precisely because it’s not a good value. The utility lies in how we and our peers th…

The original Matrix is my favorite movie. Not because I think it’s the best. I just think it’s the most important. Also among the most rewatchable. (Hear that, Ringer? Rewatch the whole…

Optimal economic policy for LDCs requires their goverments to resist aping Washington and OECD fads.

A study published in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's working paper series shows that online software piracy increases innovation. The authors conclude that piracy motivates software companies to spend more resources on research and development, to stay ahead of the piracy threat and protect their revenue streams.