[...] annual losses to intellectual property theft from China exceed $300 billion, comparable to the total amount of goods exported annually from the United States to all of Asia. The NSA director at the time, Keith Alexander, has estimated the total value of all American intellectual property at $…
[...] Fraud protection is a built-in part of the financial world we live in, which we've simply come to accept as the cost of doing business. But Bitcoin at its best could make fraud impossible unless one's private key is stolen and make the thieves easy to find even if a key is stolen. The result …
The opportunity to work on a project-by-project basis involves trade-offs. There is more independence and flexibility but fewer worker protections and rights. This too tends to skew toward the preferences of younger workers who are less focused on entitlement programs and who don't enter the workfo…