Gongol.com Archives: 2015 Weekly Archives
October 11, 2015

...it's the heartbreaking way in which American Indians have been treated

The whole point of making credit cards more secure is being negated by our failure to use the PIN system. Without the PIN, the chip is really too much just for show.

As with too many pension funds, the problems have been apparent for a long, long time

Sure, it's good to have friends at work. But we also should make sure that we're doing "work" in a way that respects the need for people to have "off-work" lives, too.

And he may be wrong about a lot, but he's right about that
October 10, 2015

The law is way behind the technology, and that's a problem

Tools like Twitter are leading us to behave like rabid pack animals



He's not serious about running for President. He's only in it for as long as it appears to inflate his personal "brand".
October 9, 2015

Threading the needle -- raising rates before inflation takes hold, but after the danger to the US economy is gone -- is a challenge nobody in economic history has ever faced with nearly the same heightened stakes. Janet Yellen may need more luck than anyone has ever needed.

What a train wreck


This is the most historically-significant event taking place right now, whether or not it's in the news

Women shouldn't be there as tokens -- they should be there because they're half of the population and are conspicuous by their absence
October 8, 2015



Too bad; the costs of crashes are much too high


Rio 2016 may be your chance!