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Seizing vacant "properties"

mercredi 31 janvier 2018 à 01:00

Corbyn: Labour will empower city governments to seize "properties" intentionally left vacant.

This can make a big difference, depending on the precise meanings of the words. Would it include apartments owned by speculators in which nobody resides? Would it include unsold condos in a building of condos?

A hunger for data

mercredi 31 janvier 2018 à 01:00

"Will tech giants move on from the internet, now we've all been harvested?"

The title is a pernicious exaggeration. They have not got data about all of us; for instance, outside of a few areas, the databases have little information about me. And I hope you too have resisted.

But that doesn't invalidate the idea of the article.

I am skeptical that there will cease to be companies with a hunger for data. There will occasionally be new competitors that want the data that other companies already have. There are fields in which they don't have enough data. Beyond that, they would like to understand every individual, and individuals change.

Notwithstanding that, the projected change may happen to some extent.

Immigration thug break-in

mercredi 31 janvier 2018 à 01:00

Chicago thugs and immigration thugs broke into Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez's home in Chicago without a warrant, then disregarded his warning that he had broken bones already, broke his other shoulder with their brutal treatment.

Paris climate agreement

mercredi 31 janvier 2018 à 01:00

The troll said he might put the US back into the Paris climate agreement if it were made into a "better deal."

I think that means, "If it were weakened even further and thus rendered totally null."

Unemployment system algorithm

mercredi 31 janvier 2018 à 01:00

Designing algorithms to find tax and benefits cheaters could be acceptable in some cases. Treating a positive result as proof, never. And designing notices so that replying requires admitting fraud is even worse.