Distributed Defense
Recently there has been much brouhaha about 3D printed weapons. Mostly these reactions have been media-generated. Cody Wilson, an enterprising young lad has, for the past year, been perfecting the technical artistry behind the manufacture of a working gun printed…
The Mind Prison System
In a recent, in-depth, late night/early morning conversation with my friends, I received a maddening and tragic realization about the horror of the state education system. Now, I’m already fully aware of alternative methods of teaching, and the systemic critiques…
Notes: The Social Contract
These are my notes from reading Rousseau’s The Social Contract for a libertarian book club meeting. ============================== Book 1. —————————— Preamble. :quote: Born as I was, the citizen of a free state and member of its sovereign body, the very…
The Commodity Money Myth
Frank Shostak wrote an article about The Bitcoin Money Myth. For an Austrian economist with “over 35 years of experience as a market economist, central bank analyst, and builder of large scale macro-econometric models”[AAS profile], I’m not wholly surprised that…
C++ casting operators
Today in my research, I came across an interesting challenge. I’m editing an older version of JavaScriptCore (JSC), redefining the most basic typedef in the sytem, EncodedJSValue. Previously it was a simple void*, but I need to gift it with…
Notes: Steps to Expatriation by Ron Yoder
Last weekend (Mar 30th) I took a trip down to a fabulous domicile in Fallbrook, CA to hear Ron Yoder talk about his expatriation to Uruguay. Having already authored an article published through The International Man in 2011, Ron agreed…
Notes: Thorium Reactor
Uses desalinization electricity Liquid Salt Thorium is much safer passive safety with fluid fuel and low pressures can drain to a passive cooling area in case of problem More flexible high temp operation offer high conversion efficiency air cooling offers…
Notes: Bitcoin Exchange
Plan for an international fully electronic exchange. * Objectives – eliminate latency arbitrage . secretize info All bids submitted cryptographically? with market clearing at fixed intervals (once a sec)? should depth be published? . publicize info Distributed clearing algorithm, every…
Let’s have more Billionaires
I’ve recently come across another missive from Thom Hartmann, that reveals a lack of firm economic grounding. The very title of the article, “Ayn Rand’s Gospel of Selfishness and Billionaire Empowerment is Plaguing America” and it’s subtitle “The United States…
Notes: Quantopian
The finance industry is very secretive. Not only about what they do (so to avoid strategy/capability leak to competitors) but also in who they are. Consequently it is difficult to get hired. The best strategy is to become well known…