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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Google - Find wheelchair accessible places with Google Maps

 “A leader must lead, but also be ready to follow. They must be aggressive, but not overbearing. A leader must be calm, but not robotic. They must be confident, but never cocky. A leader must be brave, but not foolhardy. They must have a competitive spirit, but be a gracious loser.”
–Jocko Willink

 The Panama and Paradise Papers shocked the world by displaying the extent to which tax avoidance and evasion were running amok. Estimates of tax avoidance and evasion facilitated by tax havens and tax competition differ, but most agree that tax avoidance and evasion are significant and are of the order of tens of billions of U.S. dollars. 
Luis C. Calderon Gomez (J.D. 2019, Yale; Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York), Transcending Tax Sovereignty and Tax Standardization: Three Questions, 45 Yale J. Int'l L. 191 (2020):

Tax collection, a labour of love: the Tax Justice Network podcast, May 2020(podcast) Tax Justice Network
What critical thinking? Wayback Machine is now complicit in Big Tech censorship RT. BC: “IMO, there are few things more reprehensible (and dangerous) than systematic editing of history.”

The rise of individualism is linked to that of infectious diseases. Leo Robson traces the inevitable effect on literature 


The future of Facebook and working from home by The Washington Post’s Rachel Lerman and Elizabeth Dwoskin.
Google Blog: “Imagine making plans to go somewhere new, taking the journey to get there and arriving— only to be stuck outside, prevented from sitting with family or being unable to access the restroom. It’s a deeply frustrating experience I’ve had many times since becoming a wheelchair user in 2009. And it’s an experience all too familiar to the130 million wheelchair users worldwide and the more than 30 million Americans who have difficulty using stairs. So imagine instead being able to “know before you go” whether a destination is wheelchair accessible, just as effortlessly as looking up the address. In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re announcing a new Google Maps feature that does just that. People can now turn on an “Accessible Places” feature to have wheelchair accessibility information more prominently displayed in Google Maps

Transaction cost economics is all about applying these ideas in different settings to figure out the best governance structures (marriage, vertical integration etc.) in different circumstances. 
Oliver Williamson RIP




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