Links Dec 2- Dec 8, 2018

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Saturday Dec 8, 2018

Feds making it harder to launder cash through Bay Area homes:   sfchronicle.com

Tech's invasion of our privacy made us more paranoid in 2018:   cnet.com

"One thing is all but assured: For the first time since Cal’s student station paid $1 to briefly step in to broadcast A’s games in 1978, Oakland is unlikely to receive any money for the rights to air the games."   sfchronicle.com


Friday Dec 7, 2018

Many homeowners rebuilding in Santa Rosa after last year's fires are choosing more fire-proof materials, but surprisingly governments not requiring them to.   npr.org


Monday Dec 3, 2018

A police officer grew disillusioned with his job that became too much about "stats, guns, arrests" and not enough about "people, families, emotions" resigned and told his story.   medium.com

"U.S. taxpayers have spent billions of dollars subsidizing chemically treated refined coal, but a Reuters analysis of EPA data shows that the power plants burning it often pump out more smog, not less."   reuters.com

Madrid, a city notorious for bad fumes, enacts a polluting-car ban in its city center "including a total ban on the most polluting cars."   apnews.com

Trump at economic summit dissents from consensus on climate pact.   sfgate.com

Sunday Dec 2, 2018

Keeping the number of H1B visas constant, a federal change in how they're apportioned could crack down on techsploitation.   sfchronicle.com

November 2015: "The Center for Investigative Reporting has won a national award for 'Techsploitation,' an investigative series that explored how unscrupulous labor brokers exploit workers on temporary visas."   revealnews.org

An Oct 2014 "Techsploitation" article titled Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US ran in The Guardian, along with all other articles in the investigation series.   theguardian.com





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