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Tl;tr: Can we logically refute a charlatan? No, we can’t. A typical charlatan says with conviction that the Earth is flat, or that water can cure illnesses, showing an unusual ability to reason and push his convictions. This latter fact is very curious, how can someone argue that water has an inside mechanism that cure […]
Oh, Science. Considered its success during the last century, like Nuclear Physics and Genetics, we could think its importance to be absolute and timeless; but apparently it’s not like this. I read this book because fantastic people suggested it and because I wanted to examine a quite contemporary problem: the continuation of Science. What I […]
This book is about Italian grammar, which is really different from the English one, so the interested reader is invited to read the Italian version.
Marshall Goldsmith is a coach paid for sparking a lasting change in a person’s behavior. In writing the book he wants to explain how people are oblivious victims of their environment. He is pragmatic and brings many examples of managers he coached (and saved from getting fired). A trigger is something, coming from the current […]
Since 2013, when my interest in Bitcoin started, I have read articles written against Bitcoin and Crypto. I was naive in thinking that the success of Bitcoin would have made this type of articles disappear, and their writers move on other topics. It did not happen. On the contrary, new types of slanders appeared. On […]
A month and a half after promising a digital currency that would have rescued 1.7 Billion people without access to the banking system, Facebook now says “too risky”. No wait, let’s read their own words from their second quarterly report: We recently announced our participation in the Libra Association, which will oversee a proposed digital […]
Summary of the previous post: Libra coin is a token whose value is based on an ETF. Tokens creation and transfers are managed by a centralized database, but only members of the Libra association may access this database. Being part of the association needs an investment of 10M$ and it’s invitation-only. Normal users will have […]
The Libra Coin whitepaper has this hide-and-seek writing style that makes it few things explained in a confused way. I’ll try to summarize them here. The starting point is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) pegged to a basket of currencies (USD+EUR+…), but there aren’t details on what kind of rules this fund should follow. Basically, there […]