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Minimum wage laws when instituted were racist. To this day it still detrimentally affects individuals trying to enter a work force by creating an artificial barrier. Currently, the…

Google tv on the outside of the cardboard box shows the old version without the latest version. When you update the system to the latest version, it installs a forced ad rotation o…

Look at Mann’s email trove of behind the scenes discussion.

The mineral based sunscreen is a big step in fixing this. Look for those that are environmentally friendly.

Metrics: It is easy for them to keep track of metrics, including the following: * did someone pause on a post, mark it * time on page, * whatever other crazy metric you can show to…

Green new deal is absent of nuclear energy and does not include anything about base load mitigation. Instead there will be magical battery storage. The affordable care act included…

The three fifths compromise was reached to reduce the effect that you are bringing up. The northern and southern states saw the writing in the wall for slavery when the constitutio…

This is a good use of twitter to apply engineering and figure out issues. The problem is that PG&E’s incentives are significantly misaligned to not be successful: 1. Crazy renewabl…

At the onset of the Coronavirus, the media and medical advice was to NOT acquire masks for daily wear to prevent spreading. My knowledge from Asian nations encouraging masks wearin…

Enforcement is the state forcing its will on you eliminating the individual’s ability to evaluate risk. Eric Garner is dead because of government rule flexing you suggest. The gove…

1. Community oversight through a board 2. Limit the use of force 3. Independently investigate and prosecute 4. Community representation 5. Body cams / film the police 6. Training i…

By whom? Every side can argue either way to truth or lie. Looking at the arguments in the multiple posts of this topic / concept we have people saying President Trump’s statement i…

You can’t. The political machines of these areas need to have significant political issues (think bankruptcy and stewardship to a larger organization Detroit being taken over by th…

Short sellers have a place in the market. They put in place a mechanism, in real markets, to hold a stock to honesty. Imagine if WeWork could be shorted, people would have been abl…

If you are technically-minded and want to make a difference, please show up and help. Whatever your political spectrum, you can make a huge difference in a campaign by personally s…

A great way to stifle innovation. Apple has been trying out cables and transfer types over the years (thunderbolt, CD-ROM, USB, wireless) and they do it on the backs of the luxury …

Additionally, buses are certain sizes for political reasons. Constituents want a full sized bus driving through their neighborhood as a sign of respect given, passenger occupancy i…

An addendum to this is that the government forced the companies to do this because the feds passed the insane 1942 Stabilization Act putting limits on wage hike capabilities of fir…

The funny moment of all this is how Google is becoming the type of search browser that existed in 2000. Altavista, webcrawler, yahoo, and others were the default search engines, bu…

Context from the official statement is that PG&E does expect to require blackouts, but it will not be the same magnitude of black outs as seen a few weeks ago.

Nuclear is far safer than any other power generation method. Nuclear reactors, when not made like Cherynobl’s reactor are safe. There is no intrinsic danger at a nuclear power plan…

We have an interesting societal conundrum here. Student athletes are below college material for specific sports (college football being a great example). If we do not allow the foo…

If politicians could focus their efforts on actually solving problems instead of giving hand outs to their tort lawyer buddies, we might get a better system. The lawsuits would inc…

Base load power. Solar and wind do not provide this. Storing the power from these solutions is not possible in our current scientific state. We have people who claim there are stor…