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Bitcoin is an Experiment About “The Payday” Not its Potential as Money
Bitcoin is an Experiment About “The Payday” Not its Potential as Money Republished on Live Trading News
Bitcoin Has Become About The Payday, Not Its Potential
Bitcoin Has Become About The Payday, Not Its Potential Republished on The Mission
Bitcoin Has Become About The Payday, Not Its Potential
Bitcoin Has Become About The Payday, Not Its Potential Live now on HuffPost Canada.
Robots for a $15 minimum wage
Robots for a $15 minimum wage. Help support the movement for our fellow androids by wearing this shirt and advocating for higher minimum wages to get us more jobs. Robots for a $15 minimum wage. Help support the movement for our fellow androids by wearing this shirt and advocating for higher minimum wages to get…
What will be the legacy of the New South?
Once again, the eyes of the nation, and indeed the world, are transfixed on the tale of the American south. The dust of the violent and deadly clashes in the streets of the college town of Charlottesville between right-wing and left-wing fascists has settled and self-reflection has begun. For many around the world, the American…
Austria’s millennial leader in waiting may surprise by embracing the far-right
By Yaël Ossowski Last Saturday, in a muted and highly uncontested leadership election in Linz, Austria, 30-year-old Sebastian Kurz secured 98.7 percent of the vote to head the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) before October’s elections. Well-dressed and soft-spoken in a posh Viennese accent, the young Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration unveiled his platform and…
Serifos Island
In Megalo Livadi, on the Greek island of Serifos, one finds the remnants of the first-ever Greek worker revolt. It took place in the mines of the Société des mines de Seriphos-Spiliazeza, the French-founded mining company later purchased and run by German Emilios Gromman. Angered by poor working conditions and intense labor without end, Egyptian-educated…
Mark Twain on Learning German
“Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. One is washed about in it, hither and thither, in the most helpless way; and when at last he thinks he has captured a rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid…
The plain truth is that plain packaging does not cut smoking
The plain truth is that plain packaging does not cut smoking Published in the South African Business Day
Schevchenko, Lviv, and the Glory of Ukraine
During the course of the stupendous weekend in Lviv, Ukraine to celebrate the birthday of Frederik Cyrus Roeder, which he hosted with the lovely Maria Semykoz, we embarked on a historical tour of the downtown. For one hour, over 60 curious humans representing a plethora of national flags sauntered at will, between narrow alleys, and…