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Some news are still worth to remember even when it goes old.

How green is your pet?

A dog’s eco-footprint equals to two gas hungry SUVs. Maybe the environmentalist should stop protesting against the car drivers, they should protest against the pet owners. If we raise carbon tax at the gas pump to help fighting the climate change, should we also impose some kind of tax to discourage people owning pets?

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The tyranny of the majority

Hong Kong is so behind in the progress of democracy. While we are still asking for basic democracy, the Americans is already dealing with the problem of having too much democracy. I wonder are there any pro-China politicians in HK would smart enough to quote the problems in California as an argument against the pro-democracy movement.

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Agricultural robots

One small step closer to my vision of the future, all low skill manual labor will be replaced with robots. The only problem is how should we deal with the displaced farm workers?

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PETA bunnies protest fur industry in bikinis

Only animals should wear fur? Technically speaking, human is animal, so what’s wrong for human to wear fur?

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What Makes A Great Verification Team Great?

Here is some words of wisdom on verification from thinkverification.com. I could not agree with this article any more, especially on the last point. We verifiers should education the importance of verification to the company, especially to the executives who make the budget decision.

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