Month: September 2017

The backroom conversations politicians have with their base always seem to come back and bite them in the ass. You still remember Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” remarks, when he told a room full of well-heeled donors during the 2012 campaign that 47 percent of […]

We're demanding that Springfield help Chicago win Amazon's HQ2. … divine more about what founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos might want. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

On Black Friday weekend last year, adults in the UK spent an average of £117 each. That’s a total spend of £6.45 billion – enough to buy every British man, woman and child a Fire TV Stick, a pair of glasses that make your eyes […]

It’s a small consequence — those bad apples won’t have their play affected — but it spares everyone else from a player’s crappy or abusive attitude. Expanding the team’s toxicity-fighting toolset to include softer methods is just as important as introducing harsher punishments, especially if […]

“Con la risoluzione n.118/E l'Agenzia delle Entrate si è pronunciata positivamente sul cumulo tra tax credit riqualificazione e super-ammortamento, … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from

In a fairly epic new Vanity Fair profile, the magazine reports that Peter Thiel is the frontrunner to become the chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), a meta intelligence entity that functions independently from the nation’s spy agencies. The makeup of the board has varied […]

A ripple effect is a situation in which, like ripples expanding across the water when an object is dropped into it, an effect from an initial state can be followed outwards incrementally (source Medium)

Democratic members of Congress are asking the Federal Elections Commission to crack down on digital campaign ads to prevent foreign meddling in future elections. In a letter to the FEC chairman, four members of the house and 16 senators—including Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Kamala […]