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Assuming that Unions can't be corrupted by Big Money.

If anything, the current government has restricted the use of this law to a handful of agencies. One bureaucrat I know of -- in the Postal Department -- had been abusing this for a few years.

>It had none of the great social commentary that you often get in sci-fi,

I found it great for this reason. For once I was absorbed in the fiction and not put off by excess sermonizing or social commentary.

$85,000 on Facebook ads. Surprisingly small amount, that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/10/w...

In the contrary, being a business journal, BBL must remain accurate in reporting and analysis of business. Biased business reporting will directly impact reader trust, this revenues.

This is not the first time. Huawei was banned from supplying for India's National Broadband Network in 2012, and has again been banned from supplying for India's 5G revamp.

Not all employees would be in on the espionage attempts either. It'd have to be a very limited circle that knows about it.

It requires spy agencies to crack espionage.

P(my business becoming a billion dollar business) (~0.0005%) * (1-P(me saying "no" to letting my business become a billion dollar business) (~0.0005%)) is still 0.00000499997. Nothing to worry about, Budman.

OR

Has Budman just written this article as psychological warfare against any soft targets who might be competing against his future billion dollar business? The plot thickens.

It's anything but "capitalism at work" if "capitalism" has anything to with "free markets". The Chinese Government has been graying out, if not altogether fudging, their economic indicators and propping up domestic investors. Now it has moved to outright rigging of the market through selective bans and directives (no short selling, no selling if you hold >5%, no trading at all on certain stocks, and so on).

This current rout is simply a continuation of the previous one in July when similar curbs were placed to halt the plunge.

Once again, even if their tactics work they'll only help bring about yet another plunge.

All in all, the western demand is dying out since most countries are trying to in-source materials and goods (instead of importing from China) and domestic asset bubble has nowhere to pop and the lies invested in that bubble have nowhere to hide.

These recurring events (of auto makers exposed for not owning up to faults) reminds me of is the Fight Club description of the recall formula.

If you could add the trendlines of conventional power sources (thermal, hydel, nuclear) it would give a better idea of when we can expect solar to emerge from the competition.

Because red is the color of blood.

There was Resolver One, which apparently got acquired by PythonAnywhere, which allowed Python scripted spreadsheets. It was AWESOME when I tried it, but tad too slow and no takers in the office because spreadsheets get passed around and need to be verified/rerun by people who do not know any programming. Even VBA at times.

Their OSS version is apparently still available at https://github.com/pythonanywhere/dirigible-spreadsheet (haven't tried it.)