Gongol.com Archives: June 2016
June 23, 2016
One Elon Musk venture acquires another. It probably makes abstract sense without making practical sense: They may very well fit together, but they both struggle to make a profit.
Social Security Trustees issue annual report
The Social Security program is officially going to begin running deficits by the end of the decade. And "the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund will be depleted in 2028, two years earlier than projected in last year's report". We're in a world of trouble.
Airbnb confronts problems of discrimination
As more freedom and laissez-faire finds its way into some markets (like lodging), it reveals that discrimination persists -- and reiterates how hard it is to legislate decency and respect into people. On a related note, the New York state legislature has gone on the attack against home-sharing.
Nobody voting on the EU referendum will be able to argue that they misunderstood how they were voting. No hanging chads there.
Pew survey: 71% of US adults think it would be a career disadvantage not to have broadband at home
The Internet has more or less reached the status of public utility -- like water or electricity. Those without it are missing a fundamental, core piece of infrastructure of modern life.
