“Protests against cuts to the social security system that began three months ago have since became a broader call for Ortega to leave office. Ortega’s government has dismissed opponents as delinquents attempting a coup d’etat.”
“At the intersection of programming, economics, cryptography, distributed systems, information theory, and math, you will find Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those fields into successful, real-world applications like Ethereum, which aims to decentralize the Internet.”
“The single biggest characteristic of today’s nobility is impunity, and — just as with the privileges associated with titles of nobility in the England our Framers rejected — this privilege extends not only to the titled, but to their retainers, in this case police and other government bureaucrats.”
“The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, ‘I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'”
The federal government says it’s illegal to grow hemp for commercial purposes. But people in more than 17 states are doing it anyway.
LINCOLN, Neb. (July 18, 2018) – Tomorrow, a Nebraska law goes into effect that puts limitations on the storage and sharing of information collected by Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) by law enforcement in the state. The new law also places significant roadblocks in the way of a federal program using states to help track…
“Global foreign direct investment flows were down 18% in 2017 from the previous year and nearly 24% from its post-recession high in 2015, which the OECD attributed to a surge in financial and corporate restructuring.”
“One out of every 14 children in the U.S. has had a parent imprisoned. Today there are over two million children are growing up in U.S. households in which one or more parents are incarcerated.”