How inflation taxes cash
“If you take cash, on the other hand, and you think about it from a purchasing power standpoint, if you own cash in the world today, you know your central…
As of August 1st, smart phone bluetooth-based contact tracing apps have mostly vanished
They were an ill conceived “great idea doomed to success”. Seemed like a great idea but in practice, they are likely not workable. I have posted many items on this…
Study finds that in pandemic policy induced recession, more workers over 50 will face age discrimination
Employers seize on slumps to purge more expensive, more experienced workers, study warns Source: Bye, boomer: the coming cull of workers over 50 – MarketWatch
FCC Fines HobbyKing Nearly $3 Million for Marketing Unauthorized Drone Transmitters
HobbyKing sells radio control model aircraft, subsystems and parts. For quite some time, they sold dozens of models of transmitters, especially for video links and telemetry, that operated on unauthorized…
Check the track record for those giving economic advice
Nobel economist Paul Krugman, Election night, 2016, writing in the NY Times: Nobel economist Paul Krugman, July 28, 2020: As Talib has observed, most economics prognosticators do okay for some…
Learn how to safely fly a quadcopter
I originally posted this in an online drone/camera forum. This information may be helpful to a wider audience. Judging from the large number of videos people post on Youtube of…
AM radio getting killed off by electric vehicles?
Newer Tesla EVs and the BMW i3 do not provide AM radios. The Bolt EV does but there are reports that reception may be poor (they might be using an…
Over 1,000 Twitter staff could access all private account information
Translation: Twitter had no security and still has no security over private information. Source: Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts – Reuters…
CBS flags its own marketing material on Youtube as a copyright violation – heh!
When Youtube originally announced they would auto-detect music copyright violations, I noted that they could not tell the difference between a licensed use and an unlicensed use. CBS just managed…
Why does a GM web page feature a Tesla charging port?
Why does a GM web site page feature a Tesla and Tesla charging cable? GM’s all-new modular platform and Ultium battery system will be the heartbeat of its all-electric future…