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Comment Re:Focus on industrial harvesters in China (Score 3, Insightful) 40

Confronting the national government of China takes a lot of preparation to do with a successful outcome. I haven't seen much success in Tibet or the South China Sea. If you're able to provide or cripple access to some resource that government wants, or if you've got hypersonically deliverable nukes in orbit, you might be able to be successful.

Comment Sample Size (Score 1) 38

It seems to me that if the sample size is large enough for the statistical functions not to give spurious results, then statistical results from anonymized data ought not to reveal identifying information about any single participant in the study. Although, it could reveal whether an individual meets the criteria to participate in the study.

Comment Re:More passive layoffs (Score 1) 99

I believe the notion behind the brain drain idea is that the people who leave are confident in their ability to find employment elsewhere, and since brains is a large part of the basis for employment, then the people who leave have the brains to market to the next employer. However, it occurs to me that more than people with the freedom to move, the people who leave are people who, encountering an unpleasant situation, take action to improve their lives. So, if the company values not having the boat rocked, these are the people whose departure it may prefer.

Comment City Dwellers (Score 1) 87

The overwhelming majority of the public lives is big cities and knows they won't personally have to lose any real estate to 30% for nature legislation. I'll bet they don't support the taxes to purchase land at owner's asking price for this purpose. It's more of a "those other people will be unhappy, and I'm fine with that" opinion.

Comment Re:But it's a .gov (Score 1) 59

No the old (still exists but is now buried) site is .gov The new site is .us .us is for anything in the United States, just like .uk is for anything in the United Kingdom, .ch is for anything in Switzerland and .cx is for anything on Christmas Island. Climate.org is owned by The Climate Institute. This organization was started in 1986. I don't know when they bought the domain.

Comment If you want social equality (Score 1) 55

Have AI replace the owners, too. Lots of businesses fail owing to spectacularly bad decision making on the part of the owners. Make a way for AIs to compete with these people, and see what happens when half the businesses are "owned" by entities that don't give a damn about paying 99% income tax.

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