"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
From Wired. In 2000 a brilliant quant named David X. Li devised a mathematical formula called a copula function that got widely used by Wall Street to model risk. Li came up with an ingenious way to model default correlation…
Yesterday we brought the troubling news that a VC investor was no longer gloomy. Well, this dangerous contagion is spreading, a noted economist has now become optimistic.
I had a milestone birthday recently and had a batch of routine medical checkups. The MDs and nurses all marveled at the results and said there’s absolutely nothing wrong with me, which is always nice to hear. Most were a…
Paramilitaries in Columbia are forcing peasants off their lands, sometimes murdering them, so they can then grow palm oil for export Charities working with local peasants claim that paramilitary forces in league with biofuel conglomerates – some of them financed…
Internet didn’t take off until the browser. The infrastructure was in place for some time already, but when the browser appeared, the TV generation sat up and took notice. Now we’re at the threshold of the realtime moment, and history…