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SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Long before COVID-19 turned us all into homebodies, Netflix kicked off a home organization craze with the premiere of decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s show, “ Tidying Up.” Overnight, viewers suddenly cast a jaundiced eye on all the clutter on their bookshelves and in their closets. Many were determined to separate the wheat from the chaff using Kondo’s standard of whether or not a given object had a tendency to “spark joy” in them.

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Special thanks to Karl Floersch and Jinglan Wang for feedback and review. See also: On Collusion. Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems. Trust Models. The Meaning Of Decentralization. Coordination, the ability for large groups of actors to work together for their common interest, is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It is the difference between a king comfortably ruling a country as an oppressive dictatorship, and the people coming together and overthrowing him.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

NS8 , a Las Vegas-based online fraud prevention and detection software maker for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has begun layoffs following the abrupt resignation of its CEO. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Adam Rogas resigned on Sept. 1 “with immediate effect,” according to James Holborown, the company’s vice president of communications.

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