“Do you wish to find out a person’s weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors.”
~ Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth: By Two Brothers
St. Patrick’s Day Miracle? The Chicago River WAS Dyed Green, After All
~ Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth: By Two Brothers
“While we are on the subject of the shamrock, what’s with the four leaves?…The Celts are polytheistic, they have many gods, Saint Patrick wants them to worship one god so he employs the shamrock to represent the Trinity; God the Father, the son, and the holy Ghost. The Trinity. Three leaves. A four-leaf shamrock isn’t a shamrock. It’s a four-leaf clover.”
St. Patrick’s Day Miracle? The Chicago River WAS Dyed Green, After All
Cities are much more than collections of buildings; they are places where people gather for art, culture and commerce. Cultural places are places we often visit alone but where we don’t feel alone. We share what we see and experience with others, and we feel a sense of belonging and connection, even if we don’t know or don’t talk to the others participating in the cultural event. Cultural places fulfil a need to gather, to share, to learn and to experience something unexpected, or beautiful, or challenging.
Culture can nurture us, and the women who give us cultural places to share art and ideas change the lives of others. (p.131)
"Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that. "
Close the Markets? Data and Psychology Say Maybe John Auther, Bloomberg
The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance Lucian A. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita, SSRN
War on Germs 🦠
THE DESIRE NAMED STREETCAR: California bullet train project employees told to ‘shut up’ about project woes: report.
(Classical reference in headline.)
Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Utah) presented Digital Services Tax: A Cross-border Variation of Consumption Tax Debate? at UC-Irvine today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series hosted by Joshua Blank, Victor Fleischer, and Omri Marian:
Arvind Sabu (Chicago-Kent), Reframing Bitcoin and Tax Compliance, 64 St. Louis U. L.J. ___ (2020):
This Article argues that, contrary to the common belief that Bitcoin enables tax evasion, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) can increasingly police transactions in Bitcoin. First, commercial and technical intermediaries have emerged as part of Bitcoin’s ecosystem. This diverse set of intermediaries can facilitate tax enforcement, as the litigation over the IRS’s summons on Coinbase—the largest domestic digital asset exchange—and subsequent IRS efforts show. These intermediaries could report transactions to the IRS or even, one day, withhold and remit tax payments. Second, the publicly visible, trustworthy nature of Bitcoin’s blockchain—its unique role as a shared truth—allows tax authorities to observe transaction flows. This renders Bitcoin unusually regulable for tax purposes, as recent efforts by the IRS to rely on Bitcoin’s blockchain to police tax evasion demonstrate.
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In 1996, the four largest publicly listed companies in the world were General Electric, Royal Dutch Shell, Coca-Cola, and the Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. Last year, the four largest were Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet (previously Google). This wholesale changing of the guard among the world’s largest companies is just one manifestation of the data and digital revolution that has transformed many aspects of our lives over the past quarter-century or so. And it is a stark reminder of the power of data.
Today, I don’t want to talk about the commercial opportunities opened up by data, but rather about the promise of data in government. This is a broad topic and I will limit myself to three elements of it. First, I will talk about the promise of integrated public-sector data assets. Secondly, I will talk about the importance of maintaining the community’s trust in the safe handling of public-sector data. And finally, I will provide some comments about the upcoming Data Availability and Transparency Bill.
The promise of data in government: David Gruen
“Here at Ars Technica, our staffers have seen their phones and messaging apps blow up with countless versions of the following: “How the heck do you pull off this whole work-from-home thing?” We’re in a position to know. Ars Technica has operated as a remote workforce since it was founded in 1998, decentralized and connected entirely by Internet-fueled collaboration. If this is news to you, fear not: Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson wrote a massive February explainer about how our site functions this way. That feature is one part of a recent remote-work series, and its other entries have focused largely on the business feasibility of the practice. But that conversation’s tenor is shifting rapidly in the face of coronavirus, and you might be more interested in a broader set of impressions and tips. Thus, we’re here to offer ways big and small to improve your remote workplace experience, based on our staff’s years of doing it successfully. These range from brief to lengthy, and they include suggestions that may seem obvious or silly to some, but sometimes in the course of wor
Stay Home And Avoid The Coronavirus With These Fun And Useful Websites (25 Pics) - Pleated Jeans: “These helpful and useful websites will help you pass the time indoors with ease. I killed a few hours just putting together this post. The Coronavirus (or COVID-19 is you want to be a nerd about it) has made going out in public a pretty questionable decision. Do what I did. Stock up on a ton of groceries, then stay home and play around on the internet. Useful websites await…”king from home, the little stuff adds up in a big way…”
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In 1996, the four largest publicly listed companies in the world were General Electric, Royal Dutch Shell, Coca-Cola, and the Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. Last year, the four largest were Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet (previously Google). This wholesale changing of the guard among the world’s largest companies is just one manifestation of the data and digital revolution that has transformed many aspects of our lives over the past quarter-century or so. And it is a stark reminder of the power of data.
Today, I don’t want to talk about the commercial opportunities opened up by data, but rather about the promise of data in government. This is a broad topic and I will limit myself to three elements of it. First, I will talk about the promise of integrated public-sector data assets. Secondly, I will talk about the importance of maintaining the community’s trust in the safe handling of public-sector data. And finally, I will provide some comments about the upcoming Data Availability and Transparency Bill.
The promise of data in government: David Gruen
“Here at Ars Technica, our staffers have seen their phones and messaging apps blow up with countless versions of the following: “How the heck do you pull off this whole work-from-home thing?” We’re in a position to know. Ars Technica has operated as a remote workforce since it was founded in 1998, decentralized and connected entirely by Internet-fueled collaboration. If this is news to you, fear not: Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson wrote a massive February explainer about how our site functions this way. That feature is one part of a recent remote-work series, and its other entries have focused largely on the business feasibility of the practice. But that conversation’s tenor is shifting rapidly in the face of coronavirus, and you might be more interested in a broader set of impressions and tips. Thus, we’re here to offer ways big and small to improve your remote workplace experience, based on our staff’s years of doing it successfully. These range from brief to lengthy, and they include suggestions that may seem obvious or silly to some, but sometimes in the course of wor
Stay Home And Avoid The Coronavirus With These Fun And Useful Websites (25 Pics) - Pleated Jeans: “These helpful and useful websites will help you pass the time indoors with ease. I killed a few hours just putting together this post. The Coronavirus (or COVID-19 is you want to be a nerd about it) has made going out in public a pretty questionable decision. Do what I did. Stock up on a ton of groceries, then stay home and play around on the internet. Useful websites await…”king from home, the little stuff adds up in a big way…”