Transformify

JUNE 9, 2023

In 2022, property cost 87% more in Luxembourg than the EU average. It's also renowned for its high salaries and expensive living costs. Switzerland has the highest cost of living in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In fact, it costs 39% more than the OECD average to live there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

The BP oil spill in the Gulf, the volcanic eruption in Iceland, and recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in pollution control, just-in-time manufacturing, and building materials. Some kind of natural or man-made disaster. The impact of global instability.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time. The Icelandic krona suffered a similar fate after that country’s financial collapse in 2008. Friedman, whom I quoted above, presciently linked the rise of e-cash with the central role of the internet in governing our lives.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. This example is about the very sad reality of the Ebola epidemic and the sadder still inaction by governments (like ours). Short story #1: Treemaps, Sunbursts, Packed Trees, Oh My!

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Buildings can reduce their costs by reporting energy use actively. Smart cities are a new approach to urban development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher."

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