Applied Capitalism For Fun And Profit I'm a capitalist. A friend of mine is a devoted Marxist. I think we mutually agree that, considering any particular employee, it is in that employee's personal interest to stop selling hours of labor and start renting access to his accumulated capital as soon as…

Preamble Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities…

The lure of "federation" for internet services is potent, since it allows disparate providers to interoperate and users to choose the provider that (most) meets their needs—or to become their own provider. Many of the longtime services, such as email, web serving, DNS, and others, are federated, but…

This text is part of: "Science of sleep" by Piotr Wozniak (2017) Contents Kill the alarm clock! Alarm clock epidemic Few upwardly mobile people in the modern rat-race society can live without an alarm clock. With a shot of strong coffee and round-the-clock stress, most people learn to live and…