Technology

• 10th August 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Who will win the next space race?

  I heard an interesting story once about the space race. In the 1960s both Russia and the US realised that ordinary pens would not work in space. As their astronauts needed the ability to write, this was a big problem….

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• 9th August 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Your money is no good here

  Something very powerful happens when you become financially independent. Not financially independent as in, my job will give me enough money to retire happy. Financially independent as in, if I quit work today I’d still have enough money to retire…

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• 8th August 2018 Harry Hamburg

  We are your government now

  When I was a kid, the word for stealing was tax. The bad kids at school would walk around stealing things from the weaker kids and shout “taxed!” as they did it. The idea of tax was something someone more…

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• 7th August 2018 Harry Hamburg

  False flags and drone assassinations

  Over the weekend there was an assassination attempt on the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. But this wasn’t your usual assassination attempt. Instead of guns or poison, the would-be assassins used drones. They strapped two drones with C-4 plastic explosives and…

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• 30th July 2018 Harry Hamburg

  When good is bad

  During the dot-com crash, Microsoft lost $80 billion in a single day. Five months later, in September 2000, Intel went one better. It lost $90.7 billion in a single day. Until now, those were the two biggest single-day losses in…

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• 27th July 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Utter rubbish

  “I don’t believe in recycling.” “What do you mean, you don’t believe in recycling? It’s not something you can just ‘not believe in’.” “I don’t believe in it like I don’t believe in unicorns. Have you ever seen your rubbish…

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• 26th July 2018 Harry Hamburg

  The lights are not flickering

  Did you ever have one of your most strongly held memories proved wrong? For instance, maybe you thought your bedroom door as a kid was painted red, but when you see photos you realise it was actually green. Taken at…

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• 25th July 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Life may be the price of Victory

  Before we get started, my colleague Chris, who sits just behind me in the office, wanted me to make sure you haven’t missed this message he’s been sending to subscribers. As he says, it “could make a significant change to…

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• 20th July 2018 Harry Hamburg

  Can you keep a secret?

  Seals have been used for centuries to prove something is authentic. If you wanted to send a secure message in the Middle Ages, you’d seal it with wax. When the recipient got it, if the seal was broken, they’d know…

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• 19th July 2018 Harry Hamburg

  What’s happening with electric cars?

  Right now, politics is all about Brexit, and only Brexit. So that means lots of other important news is slipping through the cracks. Case in point, the “Road to Zero”. This was the plan set out by the government last…

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