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Mitar in Mitar’s point

Jun 17, 2015

How to get people to work more than 8 hours a day for you?

If I approached you, the most talented person around, you with great knowledge and superior mind, you who can make any concept into a reality, and I told you that I want you to work for me and develop my idea. I want you to work…

Mitar in Mitar’s point

Aug 1, 2015

Sharing economy and its non-sharing truth

Term “sharing economy” was coopted. It has little to do with real sharing. It has as much with sharing as my landlord “shares” the apartment to me. This is not sharing. Sharing economy became another term for renting, lending, outsourcing, only that the…

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Mitar in Mitar’s point

Jul 22, 2015

Limitations of Bitcoin revolution

I really like how Bitcoin brought up so much new energy into the cryptocurrencies world. It combined great ideas of P2P networks, proof of work, append-only databases, and others together into a working and popular system and spawn new ideas and new innovation. It…

Mitar in Mitar’s point

Jul 20, 2015

Let’s simplify taxes: tax all transactions

Have you ever looked into laws governing taxes? The tax code? I cannot believe that anyone can really adhere to all the rules found there. I can understand that as a living organism they evolved through time and new and new rules were added to patch holes…

Mitar in Mitar’s point

Jun 15, 2015

Why vacations and 8 hour workday matter

Vacations and the 8 hour workday is a great achievement of a human society. It might not be seen as something revolutionary, but it is. It is a gentlemen’s agreement. Despite some of us being able to work more, at least sometimes, during some periods of our…

Mitar in Mitar’s point

Nov 3, 2015

Why programming is like writing poems?

When friends ask me how they could improve their programming skills I often reply that they should imagine that they are writing poems. How do poets improve their skill and quality of their poems? They read many more poems than they write. Reading what masters…

Mitar in Mitar’s point

Jul 4, 2015

Debt and moral obligations

Those lazy Greeks. They should pay their debts! If you take a loan you are obliged to pay it back. But are you? Let’s assume that it is true, if you lend something then you should return it someday. But there is a big difference between returning a loan and paying also the interest…

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