The US spends more than $500 million per victim on anti-terrorism efforts. However, cancer research spending is only $10,000 per victim. Evolutionary psychology may offer an explanation for this irrational threat amplification.
The autonomous network they created – called SAFE – has just, after 10 years development, been released as a minimum viable product consisting of a launcher, a test application and an API. The firm promises that applications will follow over the coming months.
SAFE will operate on a cryptocurrency called Safecoin. It is not based on a blockchain like Bitcoin. Instead “farmers” (a similar concept to Bitcoin's miners) earn Safecoin every time a chunk of encrypted data hosted randomly on their machine is retrieved. The more reliable a node proves itself the more Safecoin it will earn. Explore.
In the age of automation, what's scarce are problem-solving skills.
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there are two avenues: volunteer for an organization you believe in that happens to be woefully understaffed, or start your own enterprise, no matter how small.
We are all crazy, all black, and all angry. 2016 is the culminating year in which the two-party tyranny reaps as it has sown — Donald Trump on the right — winning by the rules — and Bernie Sanders on the left — losing by the rules — represent the 99% who have been disenfranchised by the legalization of grand larceny.
Donald Trump should not be under-estimated. As he secures the Republican nomination against all efforts by the leading Republican crime families to thwart the will of the public (at the same time that the leading Democratic crime families nervously observe Bernie Sanders calling into question their barking dog choice for a domesticated servant to the 1%), he will find that in order to win the general election, he is going to have to appeal to the 60% who have been disenfranchised by the two-party tyranny.