User: NewYork

And check which caste is looting India?

On: Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com)

https://www.quora.com/Which-ca...

Isn't it dependent on

On: Are Software Developers Really More Valuable To Companies Than Money? (cnbc.com)

Owners/Lenders/Shareholders/Managers/Customers

Common man

On: Trump Ups Ante on China, Threatens Duties on Nearly All its Imports (reuters.com)

From Common man perspective China is offering Inexpensive and High Quality Products;

I think it's due to

On: Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com)

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

Cardiovascular diseases

On: No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study (theguardian.com)

Cardiovascular diseases (268/100,000), not Alcoholism (2.3/100,000) is the leading cause of death;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate

And a LOLA pill will flush out excess Alcohol/Ammonia from the body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatic_encephalopathy#Treatment

Analogy

On: Bill Gates Argues 'Supply and Demand' Doesn't Apply To Software (gatesnotes.com)

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

Everyone has committed a crime

On: Encrypted Communications Apps Failed To Protect Michael Cohen (fastcompany.com)

"Everyone has committed a crime, it's about who we decide to prosecute" --KGB
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842

Re:We know how high it went, now how wide?

On: Volkswagen's CEO Was Told About Emissions Software Months Before Scandal, Says Report (reuters.com)

Heads I Win; Tails You Lose;

Capitalism needs a welfare state to survive

On: New York City Just Voted To Cap Uber and Lyft Vehicles and Require Drivers To Be Paid a Minimum Wage (cnbc.com)

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/07/12/capitalism-needs-a-welfare-state-to-survive

By nature

On: Women Die More From Heart Attacks Than Men -- Unless the ER Doc Is Female (scientificamerican.com)

Women empathize
Men sympathize

UBI to poor people works surprisingly well with

On: Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca)

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs)
Governments gave poor households small stipends to spend as they wished on condition that their children went to school or visited a doctor regularly
http://archive.is/72B2X

Marxâ(TM)s diagnosis of capitalismâ(TM)s

On: Report Reveals Numerous Cases of Amazon Workers Being Treated in Ways That Leave Them Homeless, Unable To Work or Bereft of Income After Workplace Accidents (theguardian.com)

Marx argued that capitalism is in essence a system of rent-seeking: rather than creating wealth from nothing, as they like to imagine, capitalists are in the business of expropriating the wealth of others.
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/05/03/rulers-of-the-world-read-karl-marx

Wage slaves

On: Report Reveals Numerous Cases of Amazon Workers Being Treated in Ways That Leave Them Homeless, Unable To Work or Bereft of Income After Workplace Accidents (theguardian.com)

This is why Corporations oppose UBI; They need https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slaves

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/04/why-the-world-should-adopt-a-basic-income

UBI FTW

On: With Financial Aid Declining, Many College Students Don't Have Enough Money To Eat, Studies Show, Even Though About 40 Percent Are Also Working (npr.org)

Govt should provide Free Education and Universal Health Care

Re: side with the authorities here

On: WhatsApp Balks at India's Demand To Break Encryption (venturebeat.com)

Casteism is worse than Racism;
Casteism = Racism + Slavery
https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-most-racist-people-on-earth

Difference between median and mean

On: Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man In Modern History, Topping $150 Billion (bloomberg.com)

Painfully, American families are learning the difference between median and mean
http://qz.com/260269/painfully-american-families-are-learning-the-difference-between-median-and-mean/

Most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data

On: Mistrust of Google and Facebook is a 'Contagion' That Could Spread To Every Tech Company, Says Box CEO Aaron Levie (recode.net)

The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/05/06/the-worlds-most-valuable-resource-is-no-longer-oil-but-data

China is closer to World Domination

On: China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP (tomshardware.com)

China + CPU + ML+ AI + Robotics+ Inexpensive + Products + Exports = World Domination

Re: If you're a loser who needs a government bailo

On: Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com)

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else" --Churchill

Can 10,000 hours of practice make you an expert?

On: Some Startups Have Worked Out It's Cheaper and Easier To Get Humans To Behave Like Robots Than it is To Get Machines To Behave Like Humans (theguardian.com)

Malcolm Gladwell says you need 10,000 hours to master a skill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)

It's due to

On: In This Economy, Quitters Are Winning (wsj.com)

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

UBI FTW

On: Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com)

UBI improves lives, enhances freedom and is a matter of social justice, writes Guy Standing
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/04/why-the-world-should-adopt-a-basic-income

Re:wrong way

On: Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision In Network Time Protocol (nytimes.com)

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

Cancer

On: Study Suggests There's No Limit On Longevity (smithsonianmag.com)

If humans lived long enough, they would all eventually develop cancer. This is because of inherent limits in the DNA repair mechanisms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/1...

Regulate Cruise ships

On: We Still Have No Idea How To Eliminate More Than a Quarter of Energy Emissions (technologyreview.com)

Daily emissions of cruise ships same as one million cars
https://www.euractiv.com/secti...