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Chariot teams were very politicized in ancient Rome and very much represented people and ideas. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blue-versus-green-roc...

Lives on the line? On average, existing cars kill more than 100 people each day on American roads. The current system of human-driving cars has killed one million Americans over th…

U.S. variable rate mortgages are usually indexed to Libor or U.S. treasury rates.

Did you read the report? The problem is that PROMISED pension benefits have grown, there's no funding problem if the amount of promised benefits grew with the economy or with reven…

Blog spam, here's the original report: http://www.wirepoints.com/illinois-state-pensions-overpromis...

It is misleading to fully assign spending outcomes to the sitting president-- Congress has far more control over spending than the White House. Clinton was anti-deficit but he also…

Correct, the owner's insurance policy is the primary coverage when the owner lends their car to a 3rd party. Obviously in the case of a moving violation the driver is at fault and …

As autonomy is implemented and refined, and safety improves dramatically, new regulatory and economic models will emerge. This will spark design innovation. No doubt both single ri…

Imagine if you'd limited Elon Musk's PayPal wealth with such confiscation taxes. We'd literally have no SpaceX or Tesla. Why should society put so much trust that politicians can a…

Did you read the article? He's given away everything and the Foundation is disbanding.

Yeah, the demand for parking will collapse, which would bring down the value of parking lots, that's going to be a far bigger trend than space for charging.

I had EC2s running since 2007, eventually some of the underlying hardware fails and you're forced to terminate and move to a new instance.

The vast majority of mainstream stocks PAY dividends-- in fact about 420 of the S&P 500.

Medicaid covers around 80 million people, at roughly $7,000 a year per recipient, which is double what the UK spends per patient. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/distr…

>I definitely would have felt safer knowing there was a drone The presence of drones will likely encourage people to take more risks in rough surf. The same thing happened with car…

In the 20th century, the political implementation of collectivism involved the deliberate murder-- often through starvation-- of at least 100 million people.