The insurance policies use tokens and are governed by blockchain voting and economics. There was recently a payout due to an attack on bZx. It’s interesting to see this take place with real money rather than crypto-economic theory. | learn more
From Rob May of Inside AI. “I’ve written a few times about basic income because I see it as a possible side effect of AI, automation, and possibly job loss. I wrote last year about why I think basic income may be […]
“Efforts to reduce the amount of food in landfills produce a lot of pretty infographics but very little change to a deeply flawed food system.” I had to hold my breath to get through some of the socialist-scented paragraphs, but […]
If this doesn’t earn an 🙄 and 🤦♂️, I don’t know what does. “The bills propose that food delivery apps be limited to charging restaurants no more than 10 percent commission, and require them to be licensed through the city’s […]
I find it interesting for two reasons. 1) The World Health Organization is getting involved to set standards for studies and promote good design like control groups and randomization. 2) Traditional Chinese medicine is being tested, which I appreciate because […]
Yet another way to harvest clean renewable energy from our environment. “Here we show that thin-film devices made from nanometre-scale protein wires harvested from the microbe Geobacter sulfurreducens can generate continuous electric power in the ambient environment.” | learn more
“One emerging treatment for diabetes involves converting stem cells into beta cells that secrete insulin. Now scientists have developed a more efficient method, and implanting these cells in diabetic mice functionally cured them of the disease.” | learn more
Especially interesting: “Today, more than half of Walmart’s top-spending families are Amazon Prime members, according to sources.” | learn more
In 2019 they used a first-come, first-served hiring policy in their warehouse. The result was a 60% decrease in monthly turnover. They’re rolling out the hiring policy to their retail stores this summer. | learn more
This is the guy who pioneered research into human bias and is considered a father of behavioral economics. Now that bias is the talk of the town, he’s focused on another decision-making problem: noise. | learn more