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One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week
Bitcoin’s surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring.
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Top 20 Percent Of Americans 'Hoard The American Dream'
There's a hidden force shaping our politics, says author Richard Reeves, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and it's hidden in plain sight. In his forthcoming book, Dream Hoarders, Reeves argues that the top 20 percent of Americans — those with six-figure incomes and above — dominate the best schools, live in the best-located homes and pass on the best futures to their kids.
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Bay Area Experience
Americans see foreigners as the people who steal their jobs, and people who destroy American way of life. My observations in the San Francisco Bay area provides clues for the origin of this common view that is shared by many Americans, since the foreign born population in this region increased significantly in the last decade or two, which also caused the current real estate bubble in the region.
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For Manufacturing and Retail Companies, Using Automated Robots is Cheaper Than Actual Slave Labor Would Be
Automation has touched just about every aspect of our lives, whether we directly see it or not. Robots and other automated systems are clearly the wave of the future, even if it may lead to significant job losses in the next 20 years. To highlight that point, automation and robotic technology has reached a point that makes it more cost effective for companies to use mechanical workers as opposed to actual slaves.
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America Gets a D Plus for Infrastructure, and a Big Bill to Fix it
One of President Donald Trump’s first promises after getting elected was to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure—bridges, roads, tunnels, pipes, dams. And whether you’ve had to evacuate a town in the shadow of a crumbling dam, buy filters for tainted municipal water, or even just bounced over potholes on a highway, you’ve experienced the problems the president alluded to.
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Now more than ever, don't neglect America's cyber infrastructure
OPINION | "Our nation’s cybersecurity posture will only be as strong as our weakest links..."
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The Trump administration just killed a major clean energy project
The Trump administration struck a major blow to the San Francisco Bay Area after scrapping a $647m plan to electrify the region’s largest commuter rail system. Late last week, the Federal Transit Administration – overseen by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao – halted the federal grant needed for the Caltrain electrification project.
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Route 66: Decay and resilience along iconic US highway
A journey along the legendary Route 66 highway and the landmarks and controversies that made it iconic of the Southwest.
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Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure
A look at the United States’s bridges, electrical grid, pipelines, railroads, airports and waterways. By Tim Meko.
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