HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of office workers in Hong Kong’s business district gathered on Monday for the first in a week of lunchtime protests backing the pro-democracy movement after its resounding victory in district polls last month in the Chinese-ruled city. An anti-government demonstrator holds a flag as people gather for a lunchtime protest at Chater Garden in Hong Kong, China, December 2, 2019. REUTERS/Leah MillisA day earlier police again fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters as they marched past the city’s Kowloon waterfront, after first going to the U.S. consulate on Hong Kong island to show gratitude for Washington’s support. There was no such confrontation at the two-hour rally in the central business district on Monday, as some people went back to their offices after their demonstration of solidarity. Others said they would be striking for the full five days. The gathering in Chater Garden probably drew Hong Kong’s best-dressed protesters, and organizers have called on them to come out every day this week. Protests over the last six months have drawn a wide swathe of Hong Kong society - from students to pensioners. Even white-collar professionals, like those in Chater park, have sometimes blocked roads in recent weeks, leading to face-offs with police. Monday’s rally appeared aimed specifically at bringing in more workers from advertising agencies to help build publicity. Fred, a 24-year-old advertising professional, said he and his colleagues had helped create promotional materials in their own time for the so-called “yellow economy”, the businesses seen as supporting the pro-democracy movement. Many pro-democracy protesters have adopted the color yellow and yellow balloons have been seen at rallies. “From the advertising perspective, we can help promote the brands that speak out for Hong Kong,” said Fred. Another protester in the park said his advertising agency had closed for the week in solidarity, and hoped other agencies would do likewise. “We are trying to come out and be the first industry to come out and stop working for five days,” said 28-year-old Ryan. “We are just stopping work for companies. But the advertising talent will keep advertising for the movement, designing posters and leaflets.” During Sunday’s protest police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters, some of whom chanted “revolution of our time” and “liberate Hong Kong”. That followed a period of relative calm after Nov. 24 district elections delivered an overwhelming victory to pro-democracy candidates. Police on Sunday used tear gas after protesters threw bricks and glass bottles, and ignored warnings, Kwok Ka-chuen, a senior police official, told a news conference. Fity-eight people were arrested over the weekend, bring the total number of arrests since early June to 5,947, police said. Slideshow (8 Images)The protest in the busy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui followed a “Thanksgiving” march by hundreds to the U.S. consulate. The protesters’ demands include an end to Beijing’s alleged meddling in the freedoms promised to the former British colony when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997, universal suffrage and an inquiry into police use of force. The unrest since June has at times forced the closure of government offices, businesses, schools and the international airport, helping drive the city into recession for the first time in a decade in the third quarter. Reporting by Sarah Wu and Twinnie Siu; Writing by Kate Lamb and David Dolan; Editing by Stephen Coates, Simon Cameron-Moore and Giles ElgoodOur Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Terry Gou, chairman of the worlds largest contract assembler of consumer electronics, including Apples iPhones, said Wednesday he intends to run for president of Taiwan, bringing his pro-business and China-friendly policies to what is expected to be a crowded field for next years election. The Foxconn Technology chairman who also ranks among Taiwans richest people with a fortune estimated by Forbes at 7.8 billion is seeking the opposition Nationalist Partys nomination for the 2020 presidential race against an incumbent hampered by low public approval ratings. I am willing to participate in the primary election, Gou said at the party headquarters in Taipei. If I am not chosen, it means I didnt work hard enough. He told reporters earlier in the day he was inspired by the Chinese sea goddess Matsu to seek office. Three days ago Matsu came to me in a dream. She told me she hoped the people will have a better life. Peace, stability, economy and future — these . words are the script of my religion, Gou said. Gous candidacy would be the first for a Taiwan business mogul and may appeal to Taiwanese who want a different leadership style, said Liang Kuo-yuan, president of Polaris Research Institute, a think tank in Taipei. Middle class Taiwanese dissatisfied with stagnating incomes are most likely to vote for him, he said. He will value timeliness and if something has run its course, he will quit it, Liang said. We will see efficiency and control of costs. Gou is likely to face criticism from China skeptics in Taiwan over Foxconns 12 factories in nine Chinese cities, said Huang Kwei-bo, vice dean of the international affairs college at National Chengchi University in Taipei. Manufacturing costs less in China than in Taiwan, where Foxconn is headquartered. Foxconn factories employ hundreds of thousands of people in China and have a reputation for sometimes harsh work conditions. Gou, the 68-year-old son of a police officer who moved to Taiwan after the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949, began his career in plastics before branching out into electronics and later mobile phones. China claims sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan and has threatened to take it by force if it deems necessary. More than 80 percent of Taiwanese oppose unification with China, the island governments Mainland Affairs Council said in January. Despite that, the Nationalists favor closer ties with Beijing, largely as a way of recharging the islands high-tech economy through access to Chinas massive economy. Hes got some problems hes got to solve, especially his relations with China, both political and business, Huang said. China despises current President Tsai Ing-wen for refusing to endorse its claim to Taiwan as a part of Chinese territory and has cut all ties with her government while seeking to isolate it diplomatically. Recent months have seen China step up military drills around Taiwan in what is seen as an effort to intimidate the islands 23 million people into backing pro-China parties. Gou also has a reputation at Foxconn for being strict with employees, Huang said. His personality is sort of the same as (U.S. President Donald) Trump: What I say, is what goes, Huang said. Foxconn announced in 2017, to much fanfare, that it planned to invest 10 billion in Wisconsin and hire 13,000 people to build an LCD factory that could make screens for televisions and a variety of other devices. AP video journalist Johnson Lai contributed to this report.

In its 19 years of existence, Wikipedia has become the world’s most-used reference work—and the ninth most-visited website period. That’s a tribute to the community that creates its articles. But among contributors, the gender imbalance is gigantic—and it shows in the articles they produce.Katherine Maher, CEO and executive director of Wikimedia, the nonprofit parent organization of Wikipedia, says that when Wikipedia started out, it wasn’t obvious it would need heavy policing. But that has changed as the site’s scale and impact on the world have grown. She spoke about this at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon early this month.“We started out to build an encyclopedia; we didn’t start out to build a movement,” says Maher. “Yet there is this power that comes with this idea that knowledge creates a better place for the world, and that people want to participate in it.”“If we’re here to build the world’s knowledge, then we have to invite the world in,” she adds. “So we’ve really consciously reoriented to say, ‘What can we do to break down systems of power and privilege that have excluded people from participating in knowledge historically, and how do we direct our resources to that?”Even with these initiatives in place, Wikipedia’s gender imbalance persists. Dr. Jessica Wade started contributing to Wikipedia in 2018 and has since created over 800 articles on scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who are women, people of color, or LGBTQ+. She has a vast amount of experience in regard to the issues that women editors and subjects face when someone chooses to write about them.They seem quick to criticize and tag for deletion, but slow to help you improve a page.”“I’ve been through some especially depressing editing discussions,” she says. “I think some of the old-school editors don’t like all the press around the gender and ethnicity gap on the site, and they occasionally target me, systematically tagging the biographies I’ve written for deletion. . . . They seem quick to criticize and tag for deletion, but slow to help you improve a page.” On top of that, editors often peg sources as being noncredible, even if they’re from reputable universities and publications.Providing sources and citations for Wikipedia articles about women can be a challenge, since accomplished women may have received less media coverage and general attention than men of similar achievement. Wade argues that the issue isn’t that these women are any less notable than a man, but that Wikipedia’s notability guidelines mandate strict standards that favor old white men.Maher acknowledges the problem and says that it’s bigger than Wikipedia’s coverage of women. “The majority of the internet has been built by people sitting in Europe and North America, and the majority of the world does not have that lived experience. By the end of this century, 40% of the world’s population is going to live on the continent of Africa. What does it mean for the rest of the world to join an internet that wasn’t built by them?”Wikimedia is taking steps to encourage less-represented voices to participate, such as hosting educational programs and training modules and encouraging women and people of color to get involved. That’s just a start. The organization also needs to address the concerns around the notability and source guidelines, taking into account the cracks that women and people of color fall through.Wade argues that it’s more than just Wikimedia’s burden to bear. “Wikimedia Foundation is a small charity, and the thousands of people who create content for Wikipedia day-to-day are volunteers,” she says. “How can the foundation police that? Wikipedia reflects bias in society—if journalists don’t write about women or people of color, and we don’t award them prizes or fellowships, it is tricky to prove their notability on Wikipedia. . . . We need to get better at decorating women and people of color with the same levels of recognition we give their male counterparts.”

The problem with the American Justice system. Is that it is expensive, and big companies with a lot of money can afford to fully utilize it.You go to court and loose. You get a big fine. so you appeal, and appeal, until you get a judge more supportive of you. If the fine is big enough, you just appeal indefinitely, as the cost of continual legal action is still cheaper then the fine.That said, such a big loss, does affect how the general public sees your company. Pre-Microsoft investigation the general public (with the exception of the Mac and Linux users) everyone Loved Microsoft. They made these new fancy computers with all the cool features we loved. IE 4 was so much faster than Netscape, Word and Excel had so many more new features over Word Perfect and Lotus 123 for DOS.After the initial judgement Microsoft has had a much harder time expanding. As you can see with its general failure in the mobile market. The rise of people getting Mac's, iPods and iPhone then leading to Android devices. Also with people moving their PC upgrade times from every 3-4 years to every 6-12 years, as alternatives were available with mobile. And websites have taken the place of many of our Applications.

PORTO VELHO, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that Latin America’s Amazon countries will meet in September to discuss both protecting and developing the rainforest region, which has been hit by weeks of devastating fires.The Brazilian leader also escalated a deeply personal dispute with French President Emmanuel Macron, accusing him of portraying himself as “the one and only person” concerned about the environment.Bolsonaro’s remarks pushed back at international allegations that, on his watch, the weakening of environmental safeguards in Brazil had set the stage for farmers, developers and others to set fires more aggressively this year as a way to clear land, much of it already deforested. They also highlighted the Brazilian government’s contention that some international offers of help to fight the fires were an infringement of Brazilian sovereignty over the region.Macron and other European leaders argue the fires in the Amazon require a global response because of the ecosystem’s critical role in draining heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Macron criticized Bolsonaro for allegedly lying to him about his commitments to biodiversity, prompting the Brazilian to accuse the French leader of evoking his country’s colonial past.On Wednesday, Bolsonaro said Germany and France had tried to “buy” Brazil’s sovereignty. The acrimony has sidelined a pledge of $20 million from the Group of Seven nations to help protect rainforest in the Amazon, though Bolsonaro said he would accept “bilateral” aid and that Chile was sending four firefighting planes. Britain has pledged $12 million and Canada has offered $11 million.Leaders of all Amazon nations except Venezuela will meet Sept. 6 “to come up with our own unified strategy for preserving the environment, and also for exploration sustainable in our region,” Bolsonaro said after meeting with Chilean President Sebastián Piñera in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia. The conference is to be in Colombia.Latin America countries that contain Amazon rainforest “have sovereignty over the Amazon, that needs to be recognized always,” Piñera said.A regional conservationist said “the ideal scenario” would be if the Amazon countries agree on how to preserve the region and receive robust international support in order to do it.“Sovereignty is certainly a fundamental issue here,” said Roberto Troya, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the WWF conservation group. But, he said, the issue can have a negative impact “if used as a shield to isolate and distort the reality of what’s going on on the ground.”Six former Brazilian environment ministers met Wednesday with Rodrigo Maia, president of the lower house of congress, to demand stronger protections for the environment. The ministers said Brazil should accept international aid to fight the fires and accused Bolsonaro’s government of dismantling environmental institutions, according to the G1 news website.Porto Velho, the capital of Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia, has been heavily affected by smoke from the fires.Resident Graciela Martinez said it was important for the world to preserve the Amazon. But she questioned the surge of international concern and aid offers this year, saying fires have been common in the past.“I suspect that there’s some kind of hidden interest behind it, because we had never seen this before. We’ve had bigger fires and it’s only now that we have this worldwide ruckus,” Martinez said.Another resident, Geane Pereira de Souza, walked out of a hospital pushing a wheelchair carrying her teenage son. She said the Brazilian government has not done enough to protect the rainforest and that international help is needed.“Any help is good and welcome,” she said. “The Amazon means everything to me. Some say it’s like the heart of the world.”About 60% of the Amazon region is in Brazil. The vast Amazon also spans parts of Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas region of France.Bolivia, which shares a border with Brazil, is also struggling with fires, many of which got out of control in high winds after being intentionally set during an expansion of farming and ranching.The fires started in July and have consumed 18,000 square kilometers (6,950 square miles) in the Bolivian Amazon and Santa Cruz, the country’s agro-industrial center, according to satellite images assessed by Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza, a Bolivian environmental group.President Evo Morales said up to 30% of the burned area had been intact forest, while the rest was set on fire in the annual cycle of land-clearing.Lingering smoke in the Amazon, meanwhile, is reportedly causing increased respiratory problems — particularly among children and the elderly — as fires in the region rage.The number of people treated for respiratory issues increased sharply in recent days at the Cosme e Damia Children’s hospital in Porto Velho, the capital of Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia.Fears over health impacts have been growing with the surge in fires, with more than 83,000 blazes documented by the country’s National Space Research Institute since the start of the year. That’s a 77% increase over the same period last year. About half of the fires occurred in the Amazon region, with most in the past month.The state hymn of Rondonia takes pride in the region’s famously beautiful skies. “Blue, our sky is always blue,” it says. “May God keep it unrivaled, crystal, pure, and always keep it that way.”Some clouds and a blue sky were partly visible Wednesday. But then the haze settled again blanketing the horizon with thick smoke that covered the early morning red-blood sun.Annual fires usually occur around August but this year people started them earlier, said Troya of the WWF.“Maybe the rule of law is not necessarily there,” he said. “Probably people feel that they can do it without any consequence.”___Associated Press writer Luis Andres Henao reported this story in Porto Velho and AP writer Christopher Torchia reported from Rio de Janeiro. AP writers Anna Jean Kaiser in Rio and Carlos Valdez in La Paz, Bolivia, contributed to this report.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Visa and Mastercard have offered to trim the fees merchants pay on card payments by tourists in the European Union in an attempt to stave off possible fines after a long-running antitrust investigation, people familiar with the matter said. FILE PHOTO: Visa credit cards are seen in this picture illustration taken June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev/Illustration/File PhotoEven after the cut, the fees paid by merchants when they accept card payments, a lucrative source of revenue for banks, will still likely be higher than those for EU cards, they said. The European Commission has battled for more than a decade to reduce so-called interchange costs and encourage cross-border trade and online commerce. U.S. regulators have also frowned on such practices. Retailers say interchange fees count as a hidden cost and the card companies have paid billions of dollars to settle class action lawsuits. Visa, the world’s largest payments network operator found itself in the Commission’s crosshairs in August 2017, charged with subjecting the cards of foreign tourists to excessive fees when they were used in the EU. The case originally concerned Visa Europe which was acquired by Visa Inc in June 2016. The EU said that fees charged to retailers when they accept Visa cards issued outside the EU could raise prices of goods and services for all consumers. The EU competition enforcer’s charge against Mastercard dated from July 2015. The company is also accused of having rules which blocked banks in one EU country from offering lower interchange fees to a retailer in a second EU country. The Commission and Visa declined to comment. Mastercard said: “At this time, we have no information to share on our ongoing engagement with the European Commission.” Mastercard has warned it might be fined more than $1 billion if found guilty of breaching EU antitrust rules, but this might be less if there was a negotiated resolution. The Commission can hand down fines as much as 10 percent of a company’s global turnover for infringing EU antitrust rules. But under EU settlement rules for antitrust cases, companies do not get fines nor are required to admit wrongdoing. The Commission is expected to seek feedback from retailers and consumer groups before deciding whether to accept the offer from Visa and Mastercard. Negative comments could lead it to demand a bigger fee cut. Business lobbying group EuroCommerce, whose 1997 complaint triggered the EU investigations, and Visa declined to comment. Visa and MasterCard capped cross-border fees within Europe - that is, fees on transactions in one EU country charged for transactions in another EU country - in 2014 and 2009 respectively, to end another EU investigation. Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; editing by Philip Blenkinsop and Alexander SmithOur Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.)Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Erin Schaff for The New York Times1. Political history unfolded in real time on television and computer screens across the country.Christine Blasey Ford, the first woman who accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, described the terror she felt more than 30 years ago, when, she said, Mr. Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, tried to rip her clothes off and clapped his hand over her mouth to muffle her cries for help.She remained steadfast in her account at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying she was “100 percent” certain her assailant was Judge Kavanaugh, now a Supreme Court nominee.“I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives,” she said. “Those who say that do not know me. I am a fiercely independent person, and I am no one’s pawn.”_____2. Taking the stand shortly after 3 p.m., Judge Brett Kavanaugh struck a markedly different tone.At turns indignant and emotional, he defiantly refuted the allegations, accusing Democrats of acting in bad faith: “You have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy.”We watched the hearings with people across the country, and you can find our full coverage here.And our Opinion writers, who operate independently from the newsroom, had quite a bit to say._____3. It may be hard to believe, but there were other things going on Thursday.At the U.N., the world leaders speaking in New York included the New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, and the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Our briefing on the General Assembly has the highlights, and you can watch speeches here.The briefing also covers the appearance of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, above, at the U.N. Security Council, where he warned that sanctions against North Korea must remain in place.In Geneva, the U.N. Human Rights Council voted to gather and analyze evidence of war crimes against Rohingya Muslims, one of its strongest moves to date on the conflict.And President Trump’s meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has been delayed until next week._____4. The S.E.C. sued Elon Musk, accusing him of making false public statements with the potential to hurt investors.The suit relates to a tweet last month in which Mr. Musk, the C.E.O. of Tesla, said he was considering taking the company private. The S.E.C. is seeking to bar Mr. Musk from serving as an executive or director of publicly traded companies. (Tesla is one such company.)The company’s shares quickly dropped more than 10 percent in after-hours trading._____5. $19 an hour. Over the next five years, as many as 40,000 airport workers in the New York metro area will see their minimum wage rise to at least that.It’s the highest minimum wage target set by any public agency in the country.The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs three of the country’s busiest airports, made the change after several months of deliberation — and years of pleading and pressure from unionized airport workers._____6. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, meets with House Republicans on Friday to discuss complaints that the company is trying to silence conservative voices.That will serve as something of a corrective.A few weeks ago, executives from Twitter and Facebook testified at Senate hearings. Google executives were invited — but didn’t attend.That snub was the “worst business decision of 2018,” one analyst told us, adding, “They’ve sort of poked the bear.”_____7. Inside a life destroyed by C.T.E.Daniel Te’o-Nesheim played in the N.F.L. for four seasons. He died at age 30, and later, chronic traumatic encephalopathy was diagnosed.The trail of documents, letters, text messages, photographs and voice messages he left behind provides a vivid and heartbreaking, though incomplete, picture of a football player who in his last years began to display C.T.E.’s now familiar symptoms — including paranoia, disorientation, memory lapses and angry outbursts._____8. Britain is facing a child poverty crisis.In the past six years, the number of children living in poverty in Britain has jumped drastically. About a third of British minors will be poor by 2021, some forecasts say.Before the 2008 financial crisis, successive British governments had reduced by 800,000 the number of minors living in “relative poverty.” Much of that progress has been wiped out as the Conservative-led government has slashed welfare benefits._____9. France’s new law against catcalling got its first conviction when a court fined a man for lewd comments he made to a woman aboard a bus.The panel of judges in the case also sentenced the man to nine months in jail — six months of it suspended — for physically assaulting the woman and the driver of the bus._____10. Finally, it’s been a long day.It could be a good time to pick up one of the 10 books our editors recommend this week, or check out our Cooking guide with tips on the sheet-pan dinner — designed to be delicious and simple without a lot of effort.Have a wonderful evening._____Your Evening Briefing is posted at 6 p.m. Eastern.And don’t miss Your Morning Briefing. Sign up here to get it by email in the Australian, Asian, European or American morning.Want to catch up on past briefings? You can browse them here.What did you like? What do you want to see here? Let us know at [email protected].

He’s young, he’s white, he went to Harvard, and he loves to talk about data.If Pete Buttigieg had a product and a pitch deck, Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists would most likely be lining up to get in on his startup’s seed round. But with the 37-year-old Buttigieg intent on seeking a position in the – gasp – public sector, tech industry VCs instead appear interested in investing in the small-town mayor’s upstart presidential campaign.More than 75 venture capitalists donated to Buttigieg’s presidential campaign in the second fundraising quarter of 2019. Buttigieg’s support among venture capitalists appears to top that of other Democratic candidates with strong ties to the industry, including the California senator Kamala Harris, the New Jersey senator Cory Booker and the former startup evangelist Andrew Yang, according to a Guardian review of campaign finance filings.Buttigieg’s VC fans aren’t just opening up their checkbooks; they’re also opening up their homes and professional personal networks. Among the boldfaced names of startup investors who have co-hosted fundraisers for Buttigieg are Cyan Bannister of Founders Fund, Sarah Tavel of Benchmark Capital, Seth Rosenberg of Greylock Capital and Mark Bodnick of Elevation Partners.“If he came in and pitched a startup at Founders Fund he would be in the A-player category of founders,” Bannister, a longtime libertarian, enthused to Recode.Other high profile donors include Rick Klau of Google Ventures, Sam Lessin of Slow Ventures, Satya Patel of Homebrew Management, Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital (and Shark Tank) and Sam Altman, the former president of influential startup incubator Y Combinator.Some venture capitalists who spoke to the Guardian drew a parallel between their investments in companies and candidates.“Our job is to focus on innovators,” said Ann Winblad, a legendary VC whose firm, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, was one of the first to focus exclusively on software startups. “Every day we audition the future of the global economy to make our investment decisions in hopes of building substantial companies. Having observed countless political candidates present themselves over many decades, Pete stood out for his intellect, directness and genuineness.”Buttigieg’s popularity within this cohort of disruptive investors is in part a return on his own investment in an elite network. The upper echelons of Silicon Valley society are thick with Buttigieg’s Harvard classmates, including Swati Mylavarapu, a VC who recently signed on as Buttigieg’s national investment chair; Tavel, who was the first female partner at Benchmark; and Joe Green, an entrepreneur who introduced Buttigieg to his former college roommate, Mark Zuckerberg. Green played a crucial role in introducing Buttigieg to major players in the industry when he ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, according to Recode.That personal touch came up frequently among the VCs who spoke to the Guardian about their support. Altman, who emphasized that he has also donated to Booker and Harris, recalled meeting Buttigieg in his office several years ago, and said he found the mayor “sensible and well-studied” on the topic of income inequality. Hunter Walk, a partner at Homebrew, said by email that he “first got introduced to Pete via mutuals a few years back and got the chance to spend some time with him during his DNC chair run”. Walk has also donated to other candidates.Buttigieg also speaks the language of the tech industry, from “data-driven” to “disruption”. Matt Hartman, a partner at Betaworks Ventures, appreciated how Buttigieg brought that data-driven mindset to municipal matters, such as the South Bend sewer system. “He’s got really concrete examples where he talks about using data in a city to make things work, really executional stuff that we see in startups,” Hartman said. “For me, as someone who talks to a lot of companies and tries to understand what is their unique approach, it seems to me that he has a unique approach.”Buttigieg’s policies in South Bend are not universally popular, however, and the mayor has faced criticism, including from the city’s African American community – a demographic which is almost always overlooked by VCs as well.“We look closely at the fit of a ‘product’ to a large unserved target market and Pete indeed as a millennial himself, represents this demographic,” Winblad said by email. “Intellectually he appears head and shoulders above all the other candidates. Intellectual capital trumps financial capital in all our successful companies.”Sandeep Bhadra, a partner at Vertex Ventures, said that while he and his husband do not plan to choose a candidate based on the best potential return on investment, his profession has trained him to assess people with an eye to the future.“At first glance, you kind of question whether this person who is a year and a half younger than me, if he’s had all the experience and quite frankly the education in the political system to tackle the big issues that are before us,” Bhadra said. “But I’ll put my VC hat on to say that we become cheerleaders of people based on the potential we see in them, rather than just what they’ve achieved.”Said Hartman: “One of the things that we do as VCs is, especially at the early stages, we make bets on things that are longshots.“It might have a low chance of working, but if it works, it could be a game-changer.” Topics US elections 2020 Pete Buttigieg Silicon Valley Democrats US politics news

From left, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Cory Booker, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Kamala Harris, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro are introduced. (Eric Gay / Associated Press)

Most plans to deal with climate change don’t feature the plank “Move our people to higher ground,” but most plans to deal with climate change don’t come from Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur and writer turned dark horse presidential candidate.Yang’s signature 2020 policy is his “Freedom Dividend,” a plan that would give every American adult $1,000 a month, no strings attached. But he has laid out 169 other proposals as well, and this week unveiled a lengthy climate change plan.Yang commits to an aggressive timeline for abandoning fossil fuels: a zero-emissions requirement for all new cars by 2030, a 100 percent renewable electric grid by 2035 (it’s not clear if he considers nuclear a “renewable”), net-zero emissions from transportation by 2040, and net-zero emissions overall by 2049 (there could still be some emissions then, but they’d have to be offset by carbon-negative actions). He would set a carbon tax of $40 per ton, rising gradually to $100 per ton, including a fee on imports from countries without similar carbon taxes.He pledges $4.87 trillion in climate-related spending over 20 years, though “climate-related” is a bit of a loose term; $400 billion of that total comes in the form of publicly financed campaign donation vouchers that citizens can use to “wash out the influence of lobbyists” for oil, gas, and coal companies, presumably by donating to the campaigns of supporters of aggressive climate action. He would end all leases for fossil fuel extraction on federal lands.The timeline here is aggressive, which makes sense given recent warnings from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that we are running out of time to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The price tag is, if anything, smaller than that of his rivals for the nomination.But there are also some distinctively Yang-y touches to the plan. This is a climate plan that has a section on “Moving to Higher Ground,” arguing we have to accept and adapt to climate change’s effect as well as mitigate them — ideas you’re more likely to hear batted around on speculative tech news sites (and maybe prepper sites) than in mainstream political debates.By now, most (but not all) environmentalists have accepted that nuclear power, at least in existing plants, has to be part of the solution to climate change. It’s less deadly than coal or natural gas, and produces no greenhouse gas emissions. Unlike solar or wind, it’s low-variability, meaning it could provide ongoing power even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. But nuclear has major drawbacks, not least of which are that it produces long-lived radioactive waste that has to be safely stored for thousands of years.So Yang proposes massive subsidies for two somewhat speculative alternatives to traditional nuclear reactors. The first, nuclear fusion, involves crashing hydrogen isotopes together at high speeds so that they fuse together, releasing energy; this is the same process through which the sun produces heat. The radioactive materials involved in fusion stay dangerous for a matter of decades, not thousands of years, but after decades of effort, no one has figured out how to make a fusion reactor that “breaks even”: that produces more energy than is needed to heat the reactor up to 100 million degrees Kelvin to cause the fusion reaction in the first place.That said, there are a number of physicists and private companies around the world trying to make fusion power economically viable, and Yang’s plan is designed in hopes that additional subsidies would get them closer.Yang’s plan is even higher on the prospects of thorium power. Thorium is a more common element than uranium (and, according to its proponents, easier to mine) but decays into uranium-233, meaning thorium can be used as initial fuel for a nuclear reactor. Advocates of thorium (and there are many in futurist circles) argue that thorium-fueled reactors will produce far less waste than traditional uranium reactors, and waste that is radioactive for hundreds rather than thousands of years.Thorium power is less speculative than fusion, but still in its infancy as a technology. The US briefly ran an experimental reactor using uranium-233 in the 1960s, and both China and India have thorium reactors in development. Yang’s plan to invest $50 billion to have thorium-fueled and/or fusion reactors coming online by 2027 may be optimistic but would arguably help the US keep pace with those countries.About halfway through, Yang’s plan starts talking about how we’re all going to adapt to the horrors that climate change will wreak.This section of his plan is called “Moving to Higher Ground” and is framed around proposals to do just that: relocate and otherwise adapt humanity to accommodate climate-related disasters that make previously habitable places unlivable.For instance, he calls for: $40 billion in relocation or home elevation subsidies, grants, and loans for people in coastal communities who want to either move inland or elevate their homes $30 billion for seawalls, water pumps, more absorbent roads and sewers, and other adaptations for coastal cities at risk of flooding $25 billion in “pre-disaster mitigation grants” to hurricane- and flood-prone regions Quintupling the US Forest Service budget to $24.5 billion per year for five years to combat wildfires Nationalized fire insurance for high-risk fire zones that requires homes be built in a fire-resistant way and that insurance be reevaluated in cases where the area is deemed no longer livable This is an unusual posture for a campaign, simply due to how bleak it is. Part of the political logic of a Green New Deal involves thinking of climate action as a hopeful possibility that brings with it jobs, investment, and a better quality of life. Yang is arguing, instead, that we have to accept that climate change is already having an impact and has to be accommodated as well as mitigated.Yang also goes a step further than most campaigns in talking about geoengineering: using experimental technologies to absorb carbon or reduce the amount of sun that makes it to Earth, so as to minimize the worst effects of climate change.Directly capturing carbon dioxide and planting trees are not very controversial in climate policy circles; the issue, with the former especially, is cost, not wisdom. “Space mirrors,” suffice it to say, are much more controversial, not least because they’re basically impossible to test. So too with aerosol scattering and ocean seeding (Kelsey Piper wrote a piece about one such attempt at the latter).Yang proposes spending $800 million on geoengineering research and holding a global summit to coordinate work on the issue. But he’s clear that solar mirrors, for instance, should only “be investigated as a last resort,” and that more research is needed before deciding to actually engage in one of these courses of action.Sign up for the Future Perfect newsletter. Twice a week, you’ll get a roundup of ideas and solutions for tackling our biggest challenges: improving public health, decreasing human and animal suffering, easing catastrophic risks, humanely handling the scourge of feral hogs, and — to put it simply — getting better at doing good.

In a law firm, that kind of work reduces billable hours, which can hurt compensation. And while it takes up time and energy and helps the organization, it often does not lead to career advancement. The report states that a lack of opportunities to take on challenging work also contributes to high attrition rates among women in law firms.Many women said they felt they were paid less than their colleagues with similar experience. (Almost 70 percent of women of color said so, compared with 60 percent of white women and 36 percent of white men.)And a quarter of female lawyers reported that they had experienced sexual harassment at work, including unwanted sexual comments, physical contact and romantic advances. Those episodes sometimes had career costs. About one in eight white women, and one in 10 women of color, said they had lost opportunities because they rejected sexual advances.Among all respondents, about 70 percent said they had heard sexist comments, stories or jokes at work. And while the numbers were higher among women, lawyers of both genders felt that taking parental leave would have a negative impact on their career.“You’ve got systemic barriers in place,” said Ms. Mayes, who is the chief legal counsel for the New York Public Library. “If you don’t think a woman with children should be promoted, if the woman has children of a certain age or expects to, that’s a huge impediment.”According to the latest report from the bar association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, only 35 percent of active American lawyers in 2016 were women, and they earned less than their male colleagues. Of the top lawyers for Fortune 500 companies, just 26 percent were women. And while women graduate from law schools in large numbers, they made up only 32 percent of law school deans.The report lays out methods and practices for organizations to counter bias, with an emphasis on using metrics to track and encourage fairness. They include abolishing questions about prior salary in job interviews, having boilerplate questions and policies for interviews and performance evaluations, and monitoring supervisors to ensure there are no consistent disparities by demographic group.

After a steep fall in late July and early August, the price of bitcoin has recovered recently, rising by some 15% in the past few weeks to above $7,000. Amid the many ups and downs in crypto markets—more downs than ups, these days—some people are eager to call the upturn the start of something bigger.“I have a feeling this bull run will be a pretty significant one,” tweeted Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, founder of crypto exchange Binance, to his 213,000 followers. Then, shortly after posting his cheerful prediction, he deleted the tweet, but not before some sharp-eyed users saw it.To casual observers, the tweet may seem unusual. What is the CEO of the world’s largest crypto exchange doing posting a price prediction? Would the boss of Nasdaq or the New York Stock Exchange ever be so bold?It doesn’t look like the tweet had a discernible impact on crypto prices, as trading on Binance closely mirrored global prices. That said, the episode reflects a deep-seated bullishness among crypto backers which endures despite the cooling off in markets from the mania at the end of last year.For instance, last week, Anthony Pompliano, a founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets, told newsletter subscribers that his $50,000 bitcoin prediction remains within reach, eventually:I predicted that Bitcoin could reach $50,000 by the end of this year — I was wrong. As I’ve looked at more data, it is apparent that I was correct to predict a Bitcoin price of $50,000. Unfortunately, my timeline may have been off by as much as 52 months (4 years and 4 months).The beauty of financial prognostication is that forecasts simply fade away, lost as attention turns to the next news cycle. On crypto Twitter, bullish messages have become a reliable form of social capital: they are liked and retweeted by the masses, and often earn their poster a healthy online following.In other words, all you need to do is buy, “hodl,” and wait—and maybe wait some more.Sign up for Quartz Private Key, the smart, busy person’s guide to world of crypto.

The Yang Gang are huddled round a collection of tables in the back of the Bayou Beer Garden in New Orleans knocking back local beers. It’s a beautiful evening, it’s dry, the sun is out and the gang have been spared the city’s often oppressive humidity. But they are not happy.Andrew Yang, the tech entrepreneur turned presidential candidate, is being given the cold shoulder by the mainstream media, says Scott Santens, a writer and Yang advocate. As his chihuahua Titus plays in his lap Santens shows me his Twitter feed where he has documented how many times Yang has been slighted.One screenshot from CNN titled “Top choice for Dem nominee” shows the six leading candidates from a Quinnipiac poll that put Joe Biden in the top spot with Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg behind. In sixth position is Beto O’Rourke, who polled just 1%. Yang had polled 3%.“What!” exclaims Santens.It’s initially tempting to dismiss Santens’ ire. But as he scrolls through more and more “crazy weird” examples of how Yang has been excluded from mainstream coverage of the Democratic field his evidence becomes compelling.“In aggregate it looks way too weird to be an accident,” says Santens. Twitter agreed and #YangMediaBlackout went viral thanks to Santens.Last week’s gathering of the Yang Gang was just one of hundreds of similar events being organized across the country to promote Yang, who is in many ways the dark horse of the Democratic race. His fundraising, which had been lackluster, took off after the last presidential debate where he shone, despite having the least speaking time. He has another chance to shine on 12 September when the top 10 Democrats hold their next debate.Media blindspots are not new news. A look back at the early coverage of Donald Trump’s candidacy shows ample evidence the media is not always good at judging the seriousness of candidates’ chances when they don’t fit the usual mould. And Yang certainly doesn’t fit the mould. He is not from the political establishment like Biden, Warren or Sanders. Nor is he a careerist aspirant to that class like O’Rourke and Buttigieg. He’s a nerdy Asian technocrat. His hats read “Math” not Maga. He’s pro-marijuana legalization, wants to make Puerto Rico a state, lower the voting age to 16 and give every cop a camera.But his unique selling point is he wants to give every American $1,000 a month, a handout he believes will end poverty and transform American society.Yang himself has provided the best introduction to why people join the Yang Gang. The War on Normal People, his 2018 book, is both highly worrying, charming and deeply odd. The bulk of it is an analysis of the current jobs market, income inequality and the impact of technology on current trends if nothing changes. Artificial intelligence will hollow out the jobs market, Yang predicts. It will start with cashiers, receptionists and truck drivers and then make its way up the income ladder taking jobs from everyone from journalists to surgeons and accountants. His analysis is serious and convincing, his conclusions stark. “The future without jobs will come to resemble either the cultivated benevolence of Star Trek or the desperate scramble for resources of Mad Max,” he writes. “Unless there is a dramatic course correction, I fear we are heading toward the latter.” After reading an early draft one of his friends suggested he change the title to: We’reFucked.The latter chapters are dedicated to Yang’s plans. If this part is less impressive, it’s not for want of ambition. But Yang is a man who believes a big problem needs a big solution. Yang’s main platform is the Freedom Dividend, a form of universal basic income (UBI). In Yang’s version he would give every American $12,000 a year to push those at the bottom out of poverty and help the rest make better choices. There are also some ideas for paying for it – valued added tax, and a proposal for a system of “social credits” that would give value to community-minded work, like helping a neighbor change a propane tank, walking a dog, giving someone a lift – that sound good on paper but also like the start of a Black Mirror episode.Intermingled with the analysis and proposals is a lot of personal stuff. Some of it funny, much self-deprecating and in one part simply TMI. In one passage Yang describes how racism at school led him to question the size of his penis.By his own admission Yang grew up “like one of the kids on Stranger Things but nerdier and with fewer friends”. Well, he has a lot of friends now.Back in the bar Emily Barksdale, a cardiovascular ultrasound technician who works nearby, says she was impressed by Yang’s “confidence on his facts and the way he doesn’t put on a show”. He is not like a normal politician, she says. “I was totally into Bernie and I love Elizabeth Warren too. I just feel that Andrew Yang has a solid idea of where to go,” she says.She moved to New Orleans from Florida about 18 months ago and has been struck by the city’s homelessness problem. “It bothers me. I am comfortable but what happens to all these people?” UBI could make a real difference for those people, she says. Friends have dismissed the idea as “a fad” she says “but when people look into it, they get excited”.There are about a dozen people now crammed round the table. Sipping a Blue Moon beer, Larrin Orellana, a grocery store manager from nearby Metairie in a Math hat, says he was won over after researching Yang online.“I saw him in my YouTube channel then I listened to his Joe Rogan interview [which has now been watched 3.9m times],” says Orellana. “I just thought, wow, he’s talking to everybody.”Orellana used to travel the country selling insurance and says he saw poverty everywhere. Over his 47 years nothing has changed under other politicians, he says. “I grew up in the South Bronx. They filmed a scene from a World War II movie in my neighborhood because it looked so bombed out.” If Yang was in charge “it could be so different”, he says.He says he understands why people voted for Trump (he reluctantly voted for Hillary Clinton). They wanted change. They haven’t got it but Yang really could make a difference, he says.But can he win? The Yang Gang members I met all say it’s a long shot but if he ever gets to match up with Trump they are sure he’d win. “Trump? He’s a fucking bully,” says Orellana. “Yang has experience with bullies.”• This article was amended on 11 September 2019 because an earlier version said “the Yang Gang all say it’s a long shot” for Yang to win. To clarify: that view was expressed by all the members of the Yang Gang whom the writer met. Topics US elections 2020 Democrats US politics features

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Enlarge this image Peter Dinklage accepts the award for outstanding supporting actor in a drama for 'Game of Thrones' at the 70th Emmy Awards. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Winter/Getty Images Peter Dinklage accepts the award for outstanding supporting actor in a drama for 'Game of Thrones' at the 70th Emmy Awards. Kevin Winter/Getty Images Updated at 10:59 p.m. ET The 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards were broadcast Monday night on NBC. Below is the list of winners. (Winners are in bold italics.) 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The far-right activists who jeered Donald Trump Jr off a stage in California on Sunday are part of a bloc of white nationalists who embraced Trump’s father on his ascent to the White House but are now causing multiple headaches for the president’s friends, allies and family as his campaign for re-election gathers pace.The extremists have launched an insurgent campaign to thrust their views in the faces of key Trump supporters – some of whom have reputations of their own for political views flirting with the fringes of the permissible. Seeking to command attention and force a response, they are using many of the same gadfly tactics Trump has deployed against Democrats and the left.Their fury at being denied an opportunity to ask questions at an event promoting Trump Jr’s book Triggered, and their willingness to shout the house down, are just the latest sign of acrimony ripping at the right flank of the fabled Trump base.In the last two weeks alone, followers of Nick Fuentes – a 21-year-old YouTube provocateur who offers supporters a diet of derogatory remarks about black, gay and Jewish people and has questioned the Holocaust – have repeatedly heckled the head of a key pro-Trump student organization, Turning Point USA; accused the Trump administration, however improbably, of being soft on immigration; and picked a fight with the erstwhile White House adviser and Trump loyalist Sebastian Gorka.When Gorka – who has himself been accused of antisemitism, among other sins – said he found Fuentes’s views on the Holocaust “chilling”, Fuentes responded in a tweet that Gorka was “a fat mutton-headed buffoon and a prostitute for Israel”.Gorka is one of a number of Trump surrogates and supporters who have found such provocations impossible to ignore. They have been particularly concerned to put as much daylight as possible between their own positions and those of the extremists who variously call themselves alt-right, paleoconservative or foot soldiers in a “groyper war”, a reference to a rightwing meme.“Donald Trump has nothing to do with these so-called, self-proclaimed America First asshats,” the former editor of Breitbart News, Ben Shapiro, told a conservative forum at Stanford University last week in a speech originally intended to target Trump’s more familiar adversaries on the political left.Shapiro quoted Fuentes without naming him and described his supporters as a “bunch of masturbating losers living in your mother’s basement” who only pretended to support Trump and were out for as much attention as they could muster.“Trump is many things,” Shapiro insisted. “He is not a white supremacist, and he is not an antisemite.”Shapiro’s problem in making this argument is that the racist far right was in fact openly enthusiastic about Trump when he ran for president in 2016, and Trump initially punted when invited to disavow their support.Later, when the notorious “Unite the Right” protest in Charlottesville in 2017 resulted in the death of counter-protester Heather Heyer, Trump’s reaction was to say there were “very fine people on both sides” – a widely condemned expression of moral equivalence Trump himself has recently sought to play down.Shapiro faced his own band of Fuentes-admiring hecklers at Stanford, but kept talking as they were escorted out by security guards.“I’m literally condemning Nazis,” he said, incredulously, “and you’re telling me to leave? Do you hear yourselves?”Trump Jr and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, had notably less success in maintaining control in the university lecture hall where they appeared on Sunday. Guilfoyle told the protesters they were being “rude and disruptive and discourteous” and added: “I bet you engage in … online dating because you’re impressing no one here to get a date in person.”She and Trump Jr abandoned the event moments later.A triumphant Fuentes denied that he was only a pretend Trump supporter and said the person his followers were targeting was not Trump Jr but the Turning Point USA founder, Charlie Kirk, who appeared on stage as a featured speaker but did not say a word.“Our problem is not with Donald Trump Jr who is a patriot – we are supporters of his father!” Fuentes wrote on Twitter. “Our problem is with Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA organization that SHUTS DOWN and SMEARS socially conservative Christians and supporters of President Trump’s agenda.”Trump’s allies worry that this public feuding can only dampen his base’s enthusiasm and embolden his Democratic party challengers for the presidency. It seems likely, too, that the more extreme elements who backed Trump last time might think twice before doing so again. Two Fuentes supporters at Sunday’s book event said they were likely to sit out 2020 and not bother to vote at all. Topics The far right Donald Trump US politics features

Richard Painter, a Republican and former White House lawyer in the George W Bush administration, will run as a Democrat for the Minnesota Senate seat vacated by Al Franken, explicitly in opposition to Donald Trump and his “collaborators” in the Republican party.“Our democracy is at stake,” he said.Painter will challenge Tina Smith, who was appointed to Franken’s seat after his January resignation, in a Democratic primary in August. “I’m running against Donald Trump and every one of his collaborators in the Republican party,” Painter said. “I’m going to put my country first. This isn’t about party.” Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, has been a visible critic of the US president, making frequent appearances on cable TV networks.He had been exploring a run since early April but was undecided on whether to run as a Republican, Democrat or an independent. He is currently a law professor at the University of Minnesota. Painter said he decided against an independent bid out of concern he would poach votes from Smith and hand the election to a Republican.“I can’t be a spoiler, not this year,” he said. “Our democracy is at stake.”Explaining his party swap, he said it was clear to him there was no space for a Republican who opposes the president. He discussed Democratic positions such as single-payer healthcare and blocking mining projects in north-eastern Minnesota but said he would not spend campaign money to attack Smith. The primary motivation behind his Senate bid was the president, whose policies he called “autocratic”. The special election was triggered in January, when Franken left office after a slew of women made accusations of sexual misconduct. The winner will serve out Franken’s term, ending in 2020. The Democratic governor, Mark Dayton, appointed Smith, then his lieutenant governor, and Smith is running to keep the seat. State senator Karin Housley is running unopposed for the Republicans. Topics US politics Democrats Republicans Minnesota Donald Trump news

When I read about Facebook doing the same thing, my first reaction was the same as it is now....there's no way a small investment of $2.5 billion will do anything when it costs over $2 million to buy a house reasonably close to work in SF/SV.As others have pointed out, California has a different property tax system that encourages people to hang onto their houses. However, my opinion is that people are hanging onto their houses mainly because that's all they have for retirement. I'm near NYC and we have a similar (but less insane) housing market...the closer you get to NYC, the more you pay for a crappier house. People are paying $700K+ for cheap 1950s 800 sq. ft. Levitt houses on practically no land. It's not $2M, but it's crazy. I feel people are hanging onto their houses for dear life so they can use them as a retirement fund and move to North Carolina or Florida since they don't have a 401K or other safety net beyond Social Security. The generation retiring now is the last one to have pensions and other guaranteed sources of income...everyone else is at the mercy of the stock market, their own plans (or failure to plan) and other forces. When everyone dumps their houses onto the market, the prices will drop and unfortunately I don't think it's going to be an orderly selloff. Sure, you can sell your $800K house and buy a $150K mansion in North Carolina, but only if people are willing to give you that...and they probably won't be if they have their pick of thousands of other houses.$2.5 billion will buy a little over 1200 SV houses at $2M each...that's not going to change anything. The only other thing I can think of is company-provided housing which would be a privacy/indentured servitude nightmare. Imagine getting fired and having your belongings dumped out at the front gate.