Stuff I’m Interested In

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3526210

This well worth reading if you are into distributed systems. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/9/246941-keeping-calm/fulltext

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/?s=09

I recently finished reading “The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy“. As the subtitle says, this book is focused on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Please read the book for a much better explanation but here’s the short version: There is an important difference between currency users and currency creators. […]

I’m on a mission to not become a grumpy old, conspiracy lover as this seems to be the fate of many old men. This post is part of me working on that. The fervor over the WE charity stuff the last couple weeks has been crazy. First the simple part. This whole thing is a […]

https://features.propublica.org/climate-migration/model-how-climate-refugees-move-across-continents/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Great article – http://jamesmcm.github.io/blog/2020/07/25/intro-dod/