| blog post in No Food for Thought | "Cryptocurrency": the pseudo-currency which no one understood or accepted, but which many bought On the cover of the May issue of Canadian magazine L'Actualité , I read "LE BITCOIN POUR LES NULS" ("Bitcoin for Dummies"). One of my first reactions was "true". In fact, it announced [https://lac |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Bill C-18, Canada's Foreign Link Tax: A Threat to the Free Market AND Free Information For more than a year now, Canada's Online News Act , known as Bill C-18 , has been... in the news. Unfortunately, not for the right reasons. On paper , the act require |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Celsius : Une douche froide pour la CDPQ. Mieux vaut s'y habituer Je n'ai pas de problème à ce que certains fassent rouler SETI@home sur leur PC. Ni à ce que certains plus tournés vers eux-mêmes utilisent toute l'électricité qu'ils veulent pour chercher des p |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Crhypeto propelling Malaysia and Argentina towards gold medals, squeezing every last bit out of Earth Today's greatest challenges Preserving our non-renewable natural resources from being wasted The climate crisis (and a few more) What we can do Minimizing negative externalities |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | From Ashes to Ashes to Pharce No Food for Thought wouldn't be complete without a rant against Canada's Phoenix pay system . This week I worked with an unfortunate former government employee who's been |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Imcaration and Canada's alternative to incarceration How much would it cost someone to be caught driving a vehicle with a fake license plate? When you ask people, their answers vary widely. As [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/snow-licence-plate- |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Le vrai défi Hilo : dépasser les incitatifs pervers Les effets pervers sont innombrables. Il est ainsi bien connu que l'utilisation d'antibiotiques en agriculture rend l'humain beaucoup plus vulnérable aux bactéries en raison de |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | New Religion Most religions appeared during history, but not recently. We do have accounts of how that happened, like the Bible, but it's not so clear who wrote what when, nor what exactly was written before time |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Smooth summer bitcoindoctrination Scammers are known to target elders. Wise scammers know that old people are less knowledgeable about technology, and less intellectually fit to defend themselves. When you think about it, kids are als |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Système de « santé » québécois ― les télécopieurs loin de leur dernière heure Le télécopieur, devenu une aberration, reste omniprésent dans le système de santé québécois. Mais comme [https://lactualite.com/sante-et-science/ne-tirez-pas-sur-le-fax/|un court article du Dr |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | The Neverending Movie of Unintended Consequences Competition matters . When antitrust law appeared, its target was—well—trusts. At least theoretically, capitalism couldn't prevent the appearance of monopolies. Anti |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | What happens when an alternative currency becomes legal tender? Some people think of "alternative currencies" as wonderful solutions to economic problems. But obviously, no currency can have any significant impact without becoming legal tender. So what would ha |
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