Bullshit. This is about some speculation about SARS from a 2015 book. The mere fact that the book was published, in China, is probably proof that no such program existed.
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If the employee groups’ request to delete the list of “funny” names was political, then creating and updating that list in the first place must also have been political.
I guess it’s “politics” only when the founders disagree with it.
Maybe allow players to build a scenario, then switch it on and watch it run.
Traffic is one real-life operation done from a position of somewhat centralized planning, so maybe allow players to build bus routes or subways.
Or just sell it to city planners. They are used to joylessly watching everything go awry.
The typography this article focuses on is a microcosm of how the place reminds you of its history, including both the beauty and whimsical, as well as the crimes against kerning and/or humanity.
May Berlin forever resist uniforms and uniformity.
I noticed when it broke because transaction fees at some point escalated to €50 or so. Looked up the address and there had been a few dozens transactions on it over the years, paying €100 with 20 BC or something like it. The total was a little over 900 BC. I found the private key in an email I had sent to myself.
So trust me when I write, from a beach on a Corona-free island in the Atlantic: Taleb is right. BC sucks. The only thing worse than BC are the greedy halfwits promoting it.
As an experiment in economics, Bitcoin is pure genius. The inventor quite obviously deserves a Nobel. Due to two flaws (its inability to seamlessly scale and its environmental impact), and due to its community which specifically failed to fix those issues and just generally failed in life, Bitcoin ended up as the red-hot carcass of a spent star it currently is.
The EU is disputing the report in question. And even if it were true, they'd probably have some reason than what you're coming up with in the absence of all information, which is basically "let's kill some people".
Sex isn't wrong. It just so happens that it can lead to HIV infection. If you wish people get infected, you've created a moral loop that just punishes people because you enjoy watching people suffer. Congratulations, maybe you do have a handle of conservatism-as-practiced, after all.
It'd make just as much sense to threaten to kill anyone found in public without a blue towel: you'd get the satisfaction of righteousness indignation and the honour of killing lots of people for completely arbitrary reasons.
That, plus misplaced optimism and time discounting combine to render even the strongest signal (i. e. the death penalty) blunt as to actually changing behaviour.
These disasters need to be stopped in the planning & licencing phase. For that, you'd need a state government that actually cares, and an EPA that isn't completely gutted every four to eight years.
"The water meets water quality standards for marine waters with the exception of pH, total phosphorus, total nitrogen and total ammonia nitrogen,"
"Marine water" itself will kill with three or four easy gulps, but I guess this wastewater is going into the ocean? It still sounds a bit too much like "yellow, except for the color, which is blue". Plus I'd expect any industrial wastewater to have lots of fun contaminants they haven't tested for and/or just don't have explicit limits set.
"A very aggressive monitoring operation"
There's a term I've been missing my whole life. It's my go-to action item priority one from now on when faced with...
"... everything possible to prevent a true catastrophe."
And untrue catastrophe?
- The ship had, as required, two pilots on board at the time. These are agents of the canal and have ultimate authority during the passage.
- the loss in fees seems far smaller, and can easily be counted by the numbers of ships that went the long way around.
- I doubt the salvage operation got close to that cost. There just isn't enough equipment to lease to run up a billion in four days or so., even counting stuff that may have never arrived
- Egypt still knows it's French. Force Majeur should ring a bell.
That being said, I wonder if it matters? They could have the right, or at least the power, to simply refuse passage to all vessels operated by the company. Egypt is probably party to some international agreement precluding arbitrary decision in that regard for political reasons. But they'd obviously be allowed to do so for vessels not paying the regular fee. This case would seem to resemble the latter more than the former?
Any old city of Europe, and many of South America, the Mideast and Asia, beats the generic, parking-lot dominated mid-sized American city in quality of Life.
NY, SF, and a select few others illustrate the old adage about Americans always doing the right thing, after exhausting all other options.
But the vast majority, operating with what planners seem to perceive as endless scrolling in all all directions, are dystopian.
Sim City replicates that scenario. Neither its tools, nor depth of simulation, allow for any emergent behaviour that doesn't fit the predefined mould (pun not intended, but appreciated).
It’s the grid, the strict zoning, and the coal or nuclear plant built as close to the neighboring city as possible. If your map starts with any hilly terrain, you’ll better bulldoze it now, or you’ll regret it later. If there’s any river, it better fit the grid.
Good science is when you get out more than you put into you model. The same is true of simulations, and SimCity never did.
This, as well as the rest of this piece, reads like an explicit condemnation of the consensus here in previews threads on the topic.
If your map starts with any hilly terrain, you’ll better bulldoze it now, or you’ll regret it later. If there’s any river, it better fit the grid.
The complaining about supposed shortcomings of the UN is tired and misguided. The UN is far more than just the Security Council and matters of high politicking. It’s also UNHCR, on which million of refugees depend for their life. It’s security forces almost literally acting as hostages to secure the peace in dozens of stale conflicts. It’s the ITU, iSO, and whatever their mail agency is called providing the basic necessities for international trade, travel, and communication. It obviously has some power to establish international law and decency, or otherwise that Saudi two-bit dictator wouldn’t feel threatened enough to make threads himself, and it’s obviously relevant enough for that thread to remain all bark and no bite. In terms of international justice, the UN has successfully run dozens of tribunals and investigations, from Libanon to the Balkans to Ruanda.
Yes, other matters see little progress. Politics is slowly boring holes into thick wood or whatever the saying is. That has little to do with the UN, which is just a forum for nation states to talk. Those matters simply have no solution that everyone agrees to (yet),
In that vain, it’s a mistake to even expect the UN to have the sort of power to force its own will onto states, or to even expect it to have any such will at all. For political questions, the UN does not have an identity, or any power, separate from that of its member states. That’s why it’s headed by a Secretary General, not a President or Prime Minister.
These measures would likely pack some punch, as it is very common for Saudis with means to both do business as well as spend time/get medical care/send their kids to school in the west.
This would point at a possible future resolution, which would see MBS removed from power and some more reasonable person from the family taking over.