propman

And Canada is awesome.

Voting ID cards too, though I admit I don’t know enough about that. Even if it costs billions to get it done, confidence in fair and free elections is the cornerstone of our democracy.

Edit: not sure why the downvotes, here’s a source?

http://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/377886-congress-leave...

325 co sponsors 174 D 151 R with many more willing to vote for it.

China has completely swallowed the WTO. Letting it in was one of the biggest mistakes in history, it has completely gamed the system. The goodwill and ethics have been swamped. China makes frivolous litigation to slow down the entire process and has spent years and billions learning how to completely game it. Even when the WTO rules against China, it is many years after the fact and the competition is already dead and China has taken over the market share.

It’s a net positive if it was a 2 way street. Currently, I’m competing with the entire world to purchase a house in the Valley. Chinese investment is in SV, LA, NYC, Vancouver, Toronto, NZ, Sydney and Melbourne. All areas where locals are priced out, income inequality is rampant, and only those who sell are realizing actual wealth. Salaries in those areas are higher solely for housing prices. That means our companies losing out on billions due to foreign unfair investment.

Chinese aren’t moving to these areas in many cases. They are just investing and parking their money, some of it through illicit means. In Canada, the majority of Chinese RE investment is through the drug trade. They are legitimizing this.

In NZ xenophobia has increased significantly so much that they are planning to block all foreign investments period. That doesn’t seem to be a net positive to me. Australia has jacked up foreign investment taxes twice and Canada 3 times in just 2 years. The latter are also turning more xenophobic and honestly I don’t blame them.

But if tarrifs are implemented to correct unfair trade agreements, then that isn’t economically unsound policy. How else do you rectify decades of wrong doing. IP theft, china can invest in whatever here, but we have artificial caps there. Significant tarrifs and regulatory issues there, far fewer here. Americans can’t buy property there, China purchases $150B a year in residential property here, pricing out many in the most sought after real estate markets. Forcing technology transfer to a totalitarian borderline authoritarian government and not doing anything would be pathetic.

What other tools do we have that are more palatable than tarrifs? War? Sanctions? Stop trading altogether? How else are you supposed to fix something, if the other side never wants to fix it?

Holmes is a ruthless, despicable humnan being. Cheating people out of money is one thing. Cheating people of their health, denying when caught for years and years is on a complete another level. And what she did to the poor whistleblower? Almost ruined his life and went a few rings below murder to her chief scientist. Not to mention the mafia style shakedown of John C, the reporter who broke the story.

If someone knows all that about a person, and still glowingly praises them, in my opinion they are NOT ethical and not a good person.

I do support a more fair tax in Bay Area that goes directly to transportation and infrastructure improvement

Bloomberg for whatever reason has started having more and more misleading headlines and articles, ironically right as they head to a subscription model. The WSJ I still subscribe too, mainly because it's more business and less politics related though the comment section unfortunately resembles only a slightly more dignified version of a Breitbart commenter.

You are expanding the infrastructure, without transmission lines there is no economic viability for most of our renewable energy.

If you're taxing everyone, at least make it efficient and build utility plants but even that is dumb because it subsidizes solar and likely puts the money into the wrong person's pocket.

If you were taxing everyone and wanted to help the environment, building public infrastructure, transportation, roads, bridges, trains is the best option even if it doesn't look as catchy. It'll produce a hell of a lot more benifits than a few MW of super expensive solar.

If you still want a headline, build transmission lines. Texas in 6 years went from dead last in renewables to first with over double California because the governor invested $7B in transmission lines making renewable energy an economic decision not a subsidized one

In Yahoo's case, that might have forced Marissa to actually keep a cybersecurity team and not cut them when she knew the systems were in danger of being compromised. We aren't getting any jail time, but hefty fines that don't stifle growth, just punish negligence and carelessness that are codified and don't need long court hearings to pass are a must.

I'm very cynical about Facebook, but just like their blue collar job listings, this has serious potential if done right.

I couldn't find it for solar but it should be similar if I remember correctly. China has created almost TWICE the number of GW of capacity for wind than the United States but USA still gets almost the same renewable energy from wind as china because US is 93% more efficient at generating wind due to a whole lot of reasons, but primarily because of capitalism and market economy driving decisions rather than the State.

Silicon Valley pompous, egotistical, man child billionaires mainly mine user data, advertise, and sell and improve products created by someone else. And how do they get market share? A fair percentage do due to laws and regulation loopholes making other companies unable to compete.

You think publically traded or privately backed VC companies will spend billions on R&D on a moonshot or just try to maximize profits as they should.

Silicon Valley today seems most interested in addicting people through cheap psychological tricks and owning/tracking/influencing every part of their lives, and then selling that information. Silicon Valley is what we in the Valley thought Wall Street was two decades ago. I would trust Wall Street, the Pentagon, and The Military before the holier than thou hypocracy prevalent everywhere in the Valley today

I went to my Facebook and found 8% of my friend list deactivated. I would be surprised if this entire hoopla resulted in more than 1% deletion but even 1% in NA is 1.8M accounts. That is around $200M a year loss for fb. Not a big deal, but their valuation is based on forward growth, so not tiny either

What's stopping him from using his master access to obtain any info he needs for a presidential election? Trust? Trusting him?

Really positive development from this entire mess of a scandal.

Make it more costly to get fined than it is to get hacked. Or some white collar jail time if it wss negligence or covering it up.

They've been trying to pass something like this for years and I remember reading about this back in the day and actually feeling neutral with the bill if they were able to do it the right way. Given the power of the internet giants I assumed that that would happen, but I guess not. This was awful implementation.

There is a bright side. Now within the new law, this gives a small business a good opportunity to create something similar while testing the legal grounds. If you try hard to prevent all sex trafficking/illegal activity, will the law bend and allow some leeway? Now that many sites are exiting the personals market, it's a good time to try. The advantages these sites had were not due to UI or tech features, but due to wide adaptability so this means it could be a free for all and one business could create a vastly greater user experience because those sites had no reason to innovate.

Do I have the guts to do it? No way. The penalties are too scary and any prosecuter trying to make a name for themselves could destroy anyone's reputation and life.

As for birds, I'm not as sure as I am about insects but I think they've been far fewer in my area too.

As for the rest of it, it's progress. It seems like a lot of good changes, but Analytically Facebook execs probabaly summarized that this is the least they had to do to stave off regulations or monopoly anti trust from congress. Any less, regulations would still be placed on them so it's brilliant strategy to do this and frame it in a way that Facebook is concerned about all the damage and we voluntarily do this for you instead of the truth which was we knew about this forever and only are doing it because of threat of regulations.

Overall, an optimal outcome for all parties currently, except for society as a whole down the line

Regulations should have sprouted in Obama years, but the admin and tech execs were too buddy buddy and no way Trump promotes this because it makes him look like he is accepting Russia interfered and it's not politically expedient for him to do so.

Same thing with Harvey Weinstein and all the metoo that was known by everyone. I mean I'm happy with all of this coming out, but why now? How is it so coordinated? Usually these guys pay journalists for fluff pr counter views or to shut down stories. Weinstein did.

Is this Data just a metoo thing? Is google next?