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On why many intellectual jobs are pretend jobs, why pretend work is actually a valid way of assessing real work, ponzi schemes and imposed structure.

Published on CoinDesk What do the smart watch maker Garmin, the Isreali insurer Shirbit, the electronics manufacturer Foxconn, Delaware county in Pennsylvania, the foreign exchange company Travelex, the alcohol producer Campari and the Baltimore Public Sc…

There is an apocryphal story about a meeting of the representatives of Hungarian noblemen in 1527.

This article was originally published as an Op-Ed on Decrypt Cuba is having one of its worst years in recent memory—but, as a consequence, a perfect storm is brewing on the island nation with regard to Bitcoin adoption.

This article was originally published as an Op-Ed on CoinDesk Mainstream criminal adoption would prove that decentralized finance (DeFi) is building tools with real utility, because if there’s any one group that is both underserved in their access to soph…

I am writing this to share my conclusions regarding the Cambridge Analytica affair.

This is chapter 2 of nested chapter.

This is chapter 2 of example doc.

This is chapter 1 of nested chapter.

This is chapter 1 of example doc.

Ira wakes up craving some eggs for breakfast.

As I write this, a novel strain of coronavirus (colloquially known as the rona) has a global lockdown.

As a small business owner keeping track of things can be surprisingly difficult: how you spend your money, who owes you money, who you owe money, what are your expenses, margins, operating costs… If you have multiple revenue streams from multiple platform…

I spent a lot of time this year on the road.

I face the following problem: I get a lot of similarly formatted emails that require some sort of action that can in theory be easily automated.

There has recently been a flurry of articles with a nice soundbite recycled from 2015.

A bitcoin vanity address is an address that starts in a particular way.

In July of 2017 President Trump announced with much fanfare a new policy towards Cuba.

In the second half of 2015, about a year after finishing my undergradate degree, after spending six months in working in Burma for Rocket Internet, I was unsure of what to do with myself.

Leaflet is a powerful tool for visualasing spatial data in R.

Introduction to the data set The data is the amount of Facebook messages a user (me) sent and received between 2011 and 2016.

Introduction to the data set The data is the amount of Facebook messages a user (me) sent and received between 2011 and 2016.

For the last year I have been helping people in Cuba sell tourism services online.

The problem I downloaded my data from Google Take-Out and have been playing around with it for my thesis.

One of the first things a traveller notices when going to Costa Rica is that almost every town or city is named after a Saint.

Graphs to accompany my poster presentation.

Oscar Wilde once wrote: “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

This week I had an interesting conversation (as interesting as these conversations can get) about the use of spreadsheets in business.

It is a truism that we live in the information age, yet on a day to day basis we engage remarkably little with insights on the personal information we create.

Aviacion de Cubana There was no toilet paper on the Russian-made Antonov 158 plane which took me and 15 other passengers to Havana.

Theory As our activities are increasingly organised online – from business through voting to leisure time – knowing how to write (or even just understand) code is an increasingly coveted skill.

The books I finished reading recently that I thought might be interesting to comment upon were Steven Pinker’s The better Angels of Our Nature, Mo Yan’s Big Breast’s and Wide Hips, Kapuscinski’s The Shadow of the Sun, Robert Mazur’s Infiltrator and David…

Prediction markets have the Republican nomination for President of the USA going to billionaire reality TV host and megalomaniac Donald Trump.

A few books I recently finished reading are Ben Bernanke’s Courage to act, Dr Philip Tetlock’s Superforecasting, Peter Thiel’s Zero to One, an unofficial biography on George Soros, and collection of druggie short stories titled Acid House by Irvine Welsh.

I bought my Kindle slightly over a year ago, and since it has accompanied me everywhere I’ve been.

This year has been an adventure.

In September, images of anti-riot police in a standoff with desperate migrants were shown on television, inspiring many people to volunteer and even more people to chatter about the situation.

A few friends and I are involved in the Budapest public bicycle data science competition.

I spent six amazing months in Myanmar (Burma).

English orthography is a tricky topic.

Startling new data show that emigration out of Hungary is at a 20-year record high and that many more Hungarians have seriously considered leaving Hungary to live, work, or study in another member state of the EU.