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  1. May 2019
    1. Bloombergian urbanism

      Bloomberg is a wealthy man with a lot of power, his inspiration OF building is all over the U.S

    2. New York lost the Olympics bid to London

      The U.S will hold the Olympics in 2028, 24 years later.

    1. Platforms undermine growth by reducing wages as workers scramble for gigs by offering to complete them for lower wages than their competitors

      There are tons of jobs, but at the same time they don't require much skills. EASLY replaceable.

    2. latforms promote economic growth by drawing the un-and under-employed into the labor marke

      This is a primary model for most new businesses now a days, the work force is growing.

    1. consistsof actorswhoarejointlyimplicatedinanissue,butwhodonotbelong tothesamesocialworld,

      Collective effort is what formed society, without community ties there won't be progression.

    2. “organizedbymeansof officialsandmaterialagenciestocarefortheextensiveandenduring consequencesof transactions

      Have people that serve the interest of the people, not the lobbyist serving on behalf of the private side.

  2. Apr 2019
    1. weight of stakeholder interests

      The major stakeholders are those at the board of these behemoth companies that will do all the can to take up a majority of the market.

      It's there interest to keep anti-trust laws out of their agenda while also moving to gain as much market capital as they can.

    2. Should policy focus on encouragingcompetition or regulation?

      Regulation is needed to the extent where it doesn't hinder the progression of innovation in these fields.

    1. Deep Blue

      We've gotten to a point and fairly quickly at that where our own creations are superseding us at what we do best.

    2. see global warming with our own eyes

      It's important that we delegate our time to notice the rampant effects of Global Warming. Not just hearing about it on the news, but taking awareness on how this is demonstrably destroying our world.

    3. I'm a free agent.

      If you didn't grow up feral, you have been trained to think in a certain manner structured by your environment.

    4. I would say that the real key is whether somebody can understand you better than you understand yourself.

      With all the free information we are handing out about ourselves, this is most certainly true when these algorithms are made just to study our behavior and what our next choice of action will be.

  3. Mar 2019
    1. Wikileaks has also operated in this spirit.

      Such as the Panama Papers, the exposure of these corrupt states provide us with information on what is really going on behind the scenes. The narrative that the general outlets such as FOX and CNN are prohibited from speaking up about.

    1. And even though the industry is still in its infancy, the market cap has already exceeded 800 billion.

      This is because a ton of useless cryptocurrencies have inflated prices such as KIN, a majority of the market is flooded with useless 'shill' coins that have no sort of value. In the long-run I say a whooping 96% of those listed coins are going to hit $0. Some of them are worth a few cents but have millions to even BILLIONS in market capitalization because of the last bull-run frenzy. Let's hope another one happens, but this time it bleeds out those assets with no real world value.

    1. Any promising new invention will have its naysayers, and the bigger the promises, the louder the nays.

      Reminds me of what is on-going currently in today's digital age with a certain 'new' technology called the blockchain. Banks have criticized crypto-currency for years and are now just embracing it, something of which similarly happened with the internet.

  4. Feb 2019
    1. It wasn’t in the computer’s memory, and the patient’smemory was being used as a poor substitute. The old data might as well nothave existed at all, since it wasn’t digital.

      A prime example of how the evolution of technology is proving to be beneficial towards all practices. The old methodical approach consisted of monitoring patient for a few hours and taking note of the data obtained. Technology offers around the clock monitoring and shows statistics that prove much more beneficial than just having half of the data.