Gongol.com Archives: 2015 Weekly Archives
Brian Gongol


January 29, 2015

Computers and the Internet If artificial intelligence development worries Bill Gates, it should worry the rest of us

Iowa IBM layoffs in Dubuque
The jobs were brought to Iowa through lots of incentives ($53 million worth) -- and now, 200 of them are going away

The United States of America Mitt Romney's decision whether to run in 2016

Computers and the Internet Yahoo plans a spinoff of its Alibaba position

Iowa Is the AIB merger a good deal for the University of Iowa?



January 30, 2015


Socialism Doesn't Work Pity the poor college students of China
The Communist government there, living in terror of leaving people with their own free thoughts, is pushing colleges to ban Western textbooks, especially if they speak ill of the Communist system

Business and Finance First estimate of 4th-quarter 2014 US GDP growth: 2.6%
Nothing phenomenal, but at least it's growth

Computers and the Internet AOL is closing "The Unofficial Apple Weblog"

Iowa Farewell to Dahl's
The bankruptcy sale now goes to a judge for evaluation

Computers and the Internet Bill Gates doesn't like Control-Alt-Delete, either


January 31, 2015

Business and Finance When politics trumps economics
An independent central bank is essential. The apparent non-independence of Russia's central bank is going to turn very, very costly.

The United States of America Mitt Romney bows out of 2016 race
A wise country would put him to work fixing something like the State Department or running a venture-capital fund for social good. He's smart, and he has a lot more capacity to do good things.

News Whose "brainchild" are you?
Sure, it's a promotional stunt by GE, but it's nice to see someone acknowledge that we're not just genetic children of our parents, but also intellectual descendants of other people

Computers and the Internet Google starts pushing mobile accessibility