Here a list of things which could be part of a job guarantee program, while avoiding the creation of more “bullshit jobs”.
Continue reading Some ideas for a job guarantee program
Book 1 General Provisions
Book 2 The Financial Service Authority
Book 3 Banking
Title 1 General provisions
Title 2 Consumer and Investment Banks
Title 3 Miscellaneous
Book 4 Credit
Title 1 Types of credit and money loans
Title 2 Credit Unions
Title 3 Peer-to-peer loans
Title 4 Pawn shops
Book 5 Insurance
Title 1 General provisions
Title 2 Insurance companies
Title 3 Insurance markets
Title 4 Types of insurances
Title 5 Reinsurance
Title 6 Miscellaneous
Book 6 Securities
Title 1 General provisions
Title 2 Emission of securities
Title 3 Second-hand trade of securities
Title 4 Deposit of securities
Title 5 Miscellaneous
Book 7 Derivatives
Title 1 General provisions
Title 2 Futures
Title 3 Other derivatives
Book 8 Financial intermediaries
Title 1 General provisions
Title 2 Securities brokers
Title 3 Insurance brokers
Title 4 Mortage brokers
Book 9 Asset Management and Mutual Funds
Title 1 General management
Title 2 Individual asset management
Title 3 Institutional assetmanagement
Title 4 Mutual funds
Book 10 Currency Trade
Title 1 General provisions
Title 2 TBA
Scientific and technological progress will make factory farming obsolete in the near future. Here is short video explaining how we can still consume meat and dairy products, while avoiding the mistreating of animals.
For more info:
Perfect Day Foods (animal free dairy)
Cultured Beef (Mark Post’s official web page)
As previously said the move to a new site had been postponed to 2018. The main issue regarding the new site was to decide what CMS (content management system) to use. Though it had been clear that WordPress was an absolute no-way, there was no clear idea what else. Continue reading New site: update
The recent wannacry and patya attacks have increase attention to cyber-attacks. Both attacks appear to be politically motivated and hence raises question about the future of warfare. This is of particular interest for space settlements. There are two reasons why space settlements will be particularly vulnerable to cyber-warfare. Continue reading Space settlements and cyber-war
Self-governance is one of the core principles of classical republicanism. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is closely related to the idea of self-governance and hence classical republicans should promote its use. The opposite of FOSS is proprietary software. Continue reading Republicanism and FOSS
About twenty years ago Danish artist Lars Kræmer started the Artmoney project. His idea is for artists to make small, bank note-sized pieces of art with a fixed value of two hundred Danish Kroner. These pieces of arts can be then be used to pay for goods and services. According to Wikipedia about 1,300 artists in 40 countries participates in this project and there have been exhibitions of artmoney. Continue reading Art and monetary policy
Today we celebrate 60 years of space flight. On October 4, 1957 the first man-made object, the Sputnik, was launched into orbit. This event caused a staunch competition between the USSR and the USA to put the first man on the Moon. After the Moon landings public interest in manned spaceflight faded away and so did political support. Continue reading six decades
Earlier we proposed that solving puzzles should be a school subject. A study by researchers at the University of Exeter shows that solving puzzles like crosswords on a daily base, strongly improves one’s cognitive abilities at old age. More precise: regular puzzle solving is linked to better memory and thinking skills.
This study supports our proposed policy of including puzzle solving in the curriculum of schools, as it suggests that this will improve overall intellectual skills and hence will likely have a positive effect on academic performances.
Daily crosswords linked to sharper brain in later life (Science Daily)
The Guardian has an interesting article on sex robots. Doctor Aimee van Wynsberghe points out that sex robots both offers possibilities and risks: on one hand this emerging technology could help certain people (elderly or disabled people) to get sexual satisfaction, but on the other hand there is the risk of increased objectification of women. Continue reading Sex robots
