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UK pushes electric cars with requirement for charging points

Bloomberg The UK government is boosting its push to promote electric and driverless cars with a draft law requiring gasoline retailers across the country to install more charging points. The provisions are included in the Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill, which is scheduled to be debated in Parliament for the first time on Monday after being published last week. It’s ...

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Ex Twitter engineer seeks to show women can climb only so high

Bloomberg The way Tina Huang tells it, the path to her resignation from Twitter Inc. was a Kafkaesque experience. She said she was denied a promotion, led to believe her coding skills were inferior, asked to take a leave of absence, and scolded for taking that leave. Two years ago, she sued, contending that the company systematically thwarts the advancement ...

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The fatal conceit of planning for future

Kevin Hassett evidently has not received the memo that economics is ‘the dismal science.’ The ebullient chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers is relishing the intellectual feast of applying to policymaking the predictive tools of a science that was blindsided by the Great Recession. Economists, like other scientists, learn things even when — actually, especially when — they ...

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