User: NewYork

VINDICATES

On: Alibaba Founder Defends Overtime Work Culture As 'Huge Blessing' (reuters.com)

"Behind every great fortune there is crime" --Balzac

change.org/p/13002798

Wealth Tax

On: Futurist Predicts AI Will Take Jobs, Benefiting the Rich But Not Workers (venturebeat.com)

Just impose/increase Wealth tax
https://www.change.org/p/13002...

Vegetarian diet may up cancer, heart disease risk

On: The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com)

Scientists found evidence that a vegetarian diet has led to a mutation that may make people more susceptible to inflammation, and by association, increased risk of heart disease and colon cancer.
https://indianexpress.com/arti...

Self-actualization

On: Finland's Basic Income Experiment Shows Recipients Are Happier and More Secure (yahoo.com)

State should ideally provide UBI and promote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Class saction suit

On: Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com)

Boeing is liable for class action suit

Lies, damned lies, and statistics

On: Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org)

Lies, damned lies, and statistics is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Google Legal Team

On: Google Fined Nearly $1.7 Billion For Ad Practices That Violated European Antitrust Laws (washingtonpost.com)

Why doesn't Google Legal Team flag these illegal contracts?

Reagan

On: Kamala Harris Introduces Bill To Send Millions To Local Governments For Tech Support (theverge.com)

"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." --Reagan

Einstein

On: Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com)

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" --Einstein

Intrinsic Motivation Doesn't Exist

On: Are People Who Take Frequent Breaks More Productive? (qz.com)

https://news.osu.edu/intrinsic...

China

On: Cringley's Next 2019 Predictions: Only 3.5 Cloud Players Will Survive (cringely.com)

AMZ business tactics are no different than Chinese;

I think

On: Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds (futurism.com)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... is very high

You asked for it

On: Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Law makers

On: Hackers Broke Into An SEC Database and Made Millions From Inside Information, Says DOJ (cnbc.com)

And Insider trading is not illegal to Law makers;
http://cnbc.com/id/43471561

Bizarre Statements From Politicians

On: India To Intercept, Monitor, and Decrypt Citizens' Computers (venturebeat.com)

Contempt for truth and knowledge https://www.huffingtonpost.in/...

Roman Empire Trick

On: Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says the US Wasted Trillions on Warfare Instead of Investing in Infrastructure (cnbc.com)

Roman Empire Trick;
Bread and Circuses: bribe the population with free bread and distract them with circuses whilst the rulers do whatever they want.

1:14

On: The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules (nytimes.com)

One part of Gasoline requires 14 parts of Oxygen
https://jacoboneal.com/car-eng...

Market capitalization

On: Tim Berners-Lee Says Tech Giants May Have To Be Split Up (reuters.com)

I think putting a cap on Market capitalization is better

UK can learn from Finland

On: Facebook Fined Maximum Legal Amount For Cambridge Analytica Scandal (deadline.com)

In Finland and Switzerland, speeding tickets are calculated on an individual basis depending on a person's income https://twitter.com/spectatori...

NASA Clean Air Study

On: Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... plant can remove trichloroethylene, benzene, formaldehyde, ammonia, and other chemicals from the air as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Google

On: Mozilla Challenges Educators To Integrate Ethics Into STEM (fastcompany.com)

I think Mozilla should work on Search Engine similar to Google

Reagan

On: Time To Regulate Bitcoin, Says UK Treasury Committee Report (theguardian.com)

"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." --Reagan

Inexpensive and High quality products

On: Alibaba's Jack Ma Backs Down From Promise To Trump To Bring 1 Million Jobs to the US (cnbc.com)

Common man buys/appreciates Inexpensive and High quality products;
Countries should amend their Constitutions accordingly;
https://archive.st/archive/201...

Simple solution

On: IBM is Being Sued For Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands (bloomberg.com)

Tax IBM Revenue, not Profit

Expel Ajit Pai from USA

On: Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' (arstechnica.com)

petition2congress.com/20010/expel-brahmin-from-usa/