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Not with the YouTube app, but with the browser, you somewhat can.

I used adguard and it works for like 80 to 90% of the time. For the time where ad did show up, I just reload the page and it is gone.

As long as the political "contributions" still flowing into the right politicians, you can bet if there is any change, it will be adding more regulation that is too expensive for small players comply.

It is because politicians lie. Filtering one side but no the other by the media and social media is censoring.

They are interfering with election.

The FAANG took a lesson from DOJ vs Microsoft, they no longer compete, they just bought all their competitors.

No one is saying you shouldn't work at a job where you think it is unfair compensate to your skill sets.

What I am saying is this, if I think I worth $50/hr and the only offer I got after 2 months of searching is $10/hour. If I desperately need some income, I will take the job and continue my job search. $10/hr is still better than $0. Next job offer may be $30/hr. Then the next one may be $50 or $60.

No one is forcing you to stop looking or improving yourself while you are at a job don't value your skill sets.

The labor market is a free market. If you don't agree the employer offer is fair, you don't have to accept. When you find a better offer, you go to the better offer.

As for minimum wage, it is hurting the unskilled workers, like high school students, college students who are looking for experience. If you are stuck in a minimum wage job, then this is what the market is paying for your skill set. If you think you worth more, then proof it, don't blame the system.

When I was in high school, I was working in an unpaid internship to get some experiences. I don't know if there is any unpaid internship now or if it is even legal now.

I used DDG until I've searched for "PDF watermark remover free" and the top result is watermarkremoveronline.com, a scam site. Probably with malware as well.

I did the same search on Bing and Google and the scam site is not part of the search result.

DDG emphasizes on privacy. Yet, allow scamming site returned as top result.

"Throw Them All Out" by Peter Schweizer documented a lot of this.

https://www.amazon.com/Throw-Them-All-Out-Politicians-ebook/...

This is a problem with incompetent managers. They failed to understand the different between productivity and sitting.

Last company I worked for, the CEO said to me he doesn't care where anyone work as long as the work get done well. However, this was not the case with my own manager. He micro managed everything. He had an office manager sitting with the engineers reporting to him multiple times a day on if the engineers were sitting on the desk. You can feel you are being watch the moment you step into the office. It was an absolute shit place to work for.

I think Canada has the same systems.

Singapore don't penalize saving and you see how competitive they are. More importantly, they have a lot of savings.

What we need is rewrite the law to reward saving instead of penalize savings. In the US, there is no incentive to save, because it got penalize first by inflation, then you happen to have a capital gain, dividend or interest on your savings, you get tax again. However, if you get into debt like a mortgage, which lock you in for 30 or more years, you get to deduct your mortgage interest. Property tax is deductible as well.

Remote voting for senate and congress should be the norm. It create less corruption. Just imagine a special interest group needs to travel to 535 offices to get their message heard.

Go to a community college. If you live in a big city, some of the professors are senior manager or executive from some of the largest firms in the area. Not only that, the professors there really care about the students.

Did you even watch the impeachment trail from the Democrats congress? It is a disgrace. It is like you get sued but not allow to defend yourself. Law scholar Jonathan Turley testified under Democrats' criteria for impeachment, no one is unimpeachable, even George Washington himself would be impeached.

More representatives is not the solution. They are already paying too much. We don’t need have more so they come up with new ideas to spend more money.

The solution is keep representatives local. At the age of internet, there is no reason why they need to be in DC to allow lobbyists to access all of them in 1 place.

There is nothing wrong with Windows.

What surprise me is on the laptop keyboard layout has dedicated Print Screen and Insert keys but no Home and End keys.

Medicare for all is not a solution. The solution is make health insurance act like insurance. Health service provider needs to post their price like all services and products. They need to compete for our business.

30 points in S&P is 1%, that’s an everyday range.

Beside, who said the short there is not profit taken or people bailing out or even arbitrary trades.

If you looking at tax rate. Of course, high earner AKA "the rich" pay lower. If you look at the dollars, then the rich pay bulk of the tax.

I don't get these articles or facts.

Is anyone worst off because top 1% of 1% own more than the bottom half or whatever the number is?

Wealth creation is not a zero sum game.

Union is bad.

Just put into perspective.

In the Garden State Parkway in NJ, the Union Toll Plaza has 4 lanes that accept exact change. No people involved. Then few months ago, they "upgraded" the exact change lanes and put people to collect tolls, 24/7. Not to mention, it takes longer to pass the lane now if you need to pay cash.

That means, at 40hr/week per person, 168hr per week, they need 16 people to run this 4 lanes. Then another 2 to 3 people to cover for time off. Assume a low $50k per person/year, that's almost $1m per year.

What values do these toll collectors provide to society? The only reason why these jobs were created in the first place is because of the union. Don't you think money and manpower can spend on something better to serve the customers? Like repairing the road.

I think this is BS. The developer is not required to release their apps on the Apple platform. The consumers can elect not to buy Apple's product.

Now this case can proceed, then what stops consumers or sellers from suing Amazon, eBay or Google Express? They are a monopoly in their own domain.

Amazon, for example, charges 15% for sellers fulfilled for every sale. The fee is even higher if the seller elects to be filled by Amazon.

Fiat is the reason why the financial institution is so reckless.

Everyone when there is an issue, the Federal Reserves stepped in, printed money and bailed them out.

The end result, the financial sector gets bigger and bigger over the last few decades. Privatize the reward, socialize the risk.

Until someone is held responsible, big corporations would not care about customer's data. It probably cheaper to give everyone a year of credit monitor (which not everyone used) than implement security to protect customer's data.

This data breach is reporting every week, yet nothing is being done.

I stopped trusting Amazon's review and stop buying unfamiliar brands.

I have seen too many "Amazon's choice" products with few hundreds reviews, all 5 stars, but the problem with these products are they were just listed a day ago and already got 400 or 500 five stars reviews. Looking at the review, they were all put on the same day and time. These 500 fives stars review push the product to the top of the search. Yet, Amazon did nothing about it as long as the products sell.

I sell only Amazon and I am telling you, I get a product review under 1% of the sales.

China was never any threat to any country in the history of China. The culture is simply too corrupted.

US biggest threat is the national debt and the unfounded and underfunded liabilities.

The national debt is really not a problem as long as the USD still the world reserved currency. How the reserved status may change because of China and that’s the real threat.

Buffett said that because he wants other to pay more tax. If he so wants to pay more tax as law requires it, then all he has to do is lobby Washington get rid of the “Dividend Received Deduction” or DRD, which he is the biggest beneficiary.

DRD is when a company, in this case Bershire Hathaway, received a dividend payment from a company they owned, Bershire can exempt up to 80% of the dividend from the income tax.

I love Buffett dearly and I think he is a great person. But when it come to tax, he is a hypocrite.

This is true.

You can verify this yourself by owning a high growth, non-shortable, thinly traded stock (less than 200,000 shares traded a day). On a bad news release (such as earning) or just a bad sell off day such as Wednesday, you will how bad the slippage is on your protected stopped.

For example, you own XYZ and it was at $25 at the close on Friday. There was a bad release over the weekend and the price is going to be opened at $21 on Monday morning. You have your protected stop at $20. You would think you would get out at $20 give or take 10 cents for slippage. But when your received your filled report, you see it was filled at $17.

What happened is there is 0 buyer and everyone just want to get out. If there were short shorters, they would come in at market open to book some profits by buying back the share they have shorted.

Please do not mix communist with socialist. Communist is a political party like the Republicans and Democrats parties we have here in the US.

China has moved away from the socialist economic models for 4 decades. They thrive because they have capitalist/capitalism model.

Gun don’t kill people, people kill people. Taking guns from law abriding citizen will not reduce gun violence. Criminals don’t care what your laws say.

Beside, most killing happened in schools. Still puzzled me today why don’t they remove school from gun free zone. It is a killzone.