Buy Things Not Experiences!
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/buy-things-not-experiences.html A nice, well-reasoned piece from Harold Lee pushing back on the idea that we should buy experiences not goods:
Wilshire gatekeeper builds ESG rec list, hunts for analyst hires
https://citywireusa.com/professional-buyer/news/wilshire-gatekeeper-builds-esg-rec-list-hunts-for-analyst-hires/a2376730 The ESG shortlist would be a complement to the firm’s broader recommended list of more than 200 strategies. Wilshire Associates is building out a recommended list of ESG-focused strategies…
Wilshire – Fourth Quarter 2021 Review & 2022 Outlook Webinar
https://wuyuansheng.com/doc/Fourth-Quarter-2021-Wilshire-Market-Update-Webinar.pdf
Last Chance Saloon: Best Chance to Ease East-West Tensions Cannot Be Missed
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/01/11/last-chance-saloon-best-chance-to-ease-east-west-tensions-cannot-be-missed/ By Tony KEVIN We are at a crunch point now in Russia-US relations. Their high-level talks starting next week will be closely observed by China, Russia’s de facto strategic…
An Architect’s guide to APIs: SOAP, REST, GraphQL, and gRPC
https://www.redhat.com/architect/apis-soap-rest-graphql-grpc There are many strategies for data exchange. Here’s a primer on four essentials. An architecture is wishful thinking until we understand how information is transferred across systems. That means…
Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on,…
The U.S. Makes a Mockery of Treaties and International Law
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/01/10/us-makes-mockery-treaties-and-international-law/ By K.J. Noh U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other members of the Biden Cabinet are fond of proclaiming the “rules-based international order” (RBIO) or “rules-based order” every…
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Programmers Make So Many Mistakes?
https://slashdot.org/story/22/01/10/0222241/ask-slashdot-why-do-programmers-make-so-many-mistakes A technical question occurred to Slashdot reader OneHundredAndTen when filling out forms online. “Are the programmers responsible for them stupid, incompetent, lazy, or all rolled into one?” They provided…
Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an opportunistic mesh that can be deployed privately or as part of a…