The trees, and public coins, are something that all people need.
Mea Culpa This post is a parody of the anthropic principle. However, it is also intended to be educational on the topic of the even tempered scale, aka "equal temperament". Why is pi > 3? There exist various mathematical spaces in which circles' circumferences vary in different ways. On the surface of a sphere for...
A brief survey of the Sol astrosphere has turned up several interesting planetary systems. However a more in-depth survey focused on the third major rock and it's remarkable cycling of solar energy, nitrogen, and carbon, and other materials in an arena in which abundant water is found in all its phases. The thing is inhabited...
Turtle island, land of plenty. Millions of buffalo thrive on fertile plains while ancient forests guard the diversity of adaptable survival. The stewards of the great nations, planning seven generations ahead, save the most valuable and tread lightly in spirit but on occasion brutally, ensuring an educated, respectful of the fragility of life, and adult...
Wow, Gresham's Law! This thing is so insidious, it creeps into your craw and just won't get unstuck. If you haven't been exposed, take a look at this fabulous historical review of said law. It turns out Aristophenes said it first: like is so often the case, some Greek speakers already wrote it down a...
It's worth following altcoins a little bit (npi) not just because of the experiments in technology but also because of the experiments in human psychology. Here's a review of what I learned from 42coin. I was attracted to 42coin because I'm a numerologist and sure I like Douglas Adams too, but mostly just because I...
This post is going to prove to you the following hypotheses: 1) The physical world is retarded 2) The homo sapien is the most retarded animal 3) The homo sapien displays behavioral neoteny 1) This one is quite easy for the student of electromagnetism. The physical world (at least our conception of it) being structured...
Yeah yeah, public coin has the potential to disrupt everything, just by being a sound money not systemically controlled by criminals, etc. Today we're going to look at another use for bitcoin. Have you ever wondered if people are just going through the motions or if they actually understand something? Like, a lot of people...
You've probably heard that joke about the difference between a musician and a large pizza, where the answer is that the large pizza feeds a family of three. There should be another joke which points out that substantial amounts of coin have been traded for pizza, and not for music. You see, nobody is the...
This is the first in the "debunking collapse" installment. So yeah, we all love Orlov. What he says about how the USSA is kinda just like the USSR was except well, without a good satellite launch platform, rings trueish. And some good old fashioned the world is ending now, Seldonism, is perhaps appropriate. The end...
Dr. Paul Krugman tells us here that bitcoin is "a technically sweet solution to a problem that doesn't have much economic relevance". Lets look in more detail at the problem that bitcoin solves so we can decide exactly how little economic relevance it really has. First of all I should warn you that I have...