A tiny slice of equity from public companies could fund America’s desperate need for better infrastructure.Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/opinion/infrastructure-bank.html…
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How to Raise a Trillion Dollars
A tiny slice of equity from public companies could fund America’s desperate need for better infrastructure.Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/opinion/infrastructure-bank.html…
Vox Sentences: Right to marry, right to work?
Source: https://www.vox.com/vox-sentences/2019/4/22/18511376/sri-lanka-easter-bombings-lgbtq-supreme-court…
TurboTax Uses Dark Patterns To Trick You Into Paying To File Your Taxes
ProPublica reports on the shady tactics TurboTax and other tax software companies use to prevent most Americans from filing their taxes for free. According to an agreement with the IRS, tax software companies are supposed to offer a “Free File” product to Americans making less than $66,000 a year. From the report: Here’s what happened when we went looking. Our first…
Edward Snowden: Assange’s Arrest and the Mueller Report Show a ‘Two-Tiered System of Justice’
In this week’s CYBER podcast, we sat down with Edward Snowden to talk about his life in Russia, Julian Assange, and press freedom.Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/597pvk/edward-snowden-assange-arrest-mueller-report…
This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.
Source: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/10/15589038/top-100-solutions-climate-change-ranked…
10 ways to accelerate progress against climate change
Source: https://www.vox.com/2018/10/10/17952334/climate-change-global-warming-un-ipcc-report-solutions-carbon-tax-electric-vehicles…
7 things we’ve learned about Earth since the last Earth Day
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/21/18223816/earth-day-2019-climate-change-plastic-extinction…
Corporate Surveillance: When Employers Collect Data on Their Workers
An anonymous reader quotes CNBC:
The emergence of sensor and other technologies that let businesses track, listen to and even watch employees while on company time is raising concern about corporate levels of surveillance… Earlier this year, Amazon received a patent for an ultrasonic bracelet that can detect a warehouse worker’s location and monitor their interaction with inventory bins by using ultrasonic…
For Some Legal Weed Businesses, Cryptocurrency Actually Makes Sense
Despite being recreationally legal in 10 states, cannabis businesses have to come up with creative ways to accept payment other than cash. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv7pzw/for-some-legal-weed-businesses-cryptocurrency-actually-makes-sense…