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Moravec‘s Paradox

Election 2019: Green Party would create ‘robot tax’ for companies

If elected, the Green Party of Canada will enact a robot tax that will get companies to pay a tax every time it replaces a human with a machine. The tax would be equivalent to the income tax that the laid-off employee would pay. GPC Leader Elizabeth May sai…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Seleção

Neymar Jr: Brazil’s Generational Talent Who Dictated the Greatest Champions League Night in History

Neymar is number 10 in 90min's Top 20 Greatest Footballers of the Decade series. Follow the rest of the series over the course of the next two weeks. They say records are only made to be broken. But overturning a four-goal scoreline in the second leg of a Ch…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

The Queen

Here’s how Princess Beatrice’s wedding to property tycoon and single dad Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will change the royal family

Princess Beatrice of York is engaged to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday. The pair's 2020 nuptials will bring plenty of change to the royal household. Queen Elizabeth will welcome not one, but two new members into the family, a…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Greta Thunberg

An Unexpected Response to a Story of Homelessness: ‘This Article Is About My Father’

Good morning. (Heres the sign-up, if you dont already get California Today by email.) Our San Francisco bureau chief, Thomas Fuller, has been covering homelessness in the Bay Area for the past few years. In Oakland alone, the number of homeless people has r…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Obamacare

HealthCare.com Releases Customer Survey Showing 58% of Short Term Health Insurance Buyers Were Uninsured

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HealthCare.com, a leader in technology-enabled health insurance solutions, has released customer survey data gathered in September debunking the myth that short term health plans are damaging the market for Obamacare plans. More tha…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Obamacare

Reviewing The Democratic Candidates’ Tax Plans: Joe Biden

One of the coolest things about having nearly twenty candidates still vying for the Democratic nomination for President is that you could be seated right next to one of them in a restaurant and be none the wiser, even as the cashier announces "Joe Sestak, you…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

‘An Exercise In Obfuscation.’ Wonkagenda For Mon., Sept., 30, 2019

Morning Wonketariat! Here's some of the things we may be talking about today. Trump World spent the weekend on a full-bore media offensive in an attempt to gaslight people after Ukrainium One blew up in their faces. Trump went nuclear on social media, decla…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Big Data

Big Data Is Disrupting The Outsourcing Model — And It’s About Time

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin To stay competitive in the business world, corporations have for years relied on outsourcing, sometimes referred to as labor arbitrage. While outsourcing has been around f…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

NSA

Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Trump, Obama & How He Ended Up in Russia to Avoid U.S. Extradition

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Donate We conclude our interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who has just published his memoir titled “Permanent Record.” In 2013, after quitting his job at the NSA, Snowden attempted to f…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Hiroshima

How to dismantle a nuclear bomb

How do weapons inspectors verify that a nuclear bomb has been dismantled? An unsettling answer is: They dont, for the most part. When countries sign arms reduction pacts, they do not typically grant inspectors complete access to their nuclear technologies, fo…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Election 2019: Green Party would create ‘robot tax’ for companies

Neymar Jr: Brazil’s Generational Talent Who Dictated the Greatest Champions League Night in History

Here’s how Princess Beatrice’s wedding to property tycoon and single dad Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will change the royal family

An Unexpected Response to a Story of Homelessness: ‘This Article Is About My Father’

HealthCare.com Releases Customer Survey Showing 58% of Short Term Health Insurance Buyers Were Uninsured

Reviewing The Democratic Candidates’ Tax Plans: Joe Biden

‘An Exercise In Obfuscation.’ Wonkagenda For Mon., Sept., 30, 2019

Big Data Is Disrupting The Outsourcing Model — And It’s About Time

Whistleblower Edward Snowden on Trump, Obama & How He Ended Up in Russia to Avoid U.S. Extradition

How to dismantle a nuclear bomb

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