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Economist, Sept 22, 2018 (II)

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发表于 9-27-2018 15:15:25 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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(a) Artificial intelligence | AI, EU, Go. Europe can influence the development of AI for the better -- and not just at home. (in the Leaders section, an introduction at the first pages of a n issue to a more nuanced article inside)
("The two superpowers of artificial intelligence (AI) are America and China. Their tech giants have collected the most data, attracted the best talent and boast the biggest computing cloud-- the main ingredients needed to develop AI services from facial recognition to self-driving cars. Their dominance deeply worries the European Union")
(b) Artificial intelligence and Europe | Big Data, Small Politics. The European Union is gearing up to challenge the AI superpowers, America and China. Is it too late?  (in the Business section)
("People in Silicon Valley are sceptical. * * * The scepticism is not only because self-inflicted weaknesses such as 'Europe's tendency to favour incumbent business over disruptive newcomer,' in the words of Greg Allen of Centre for a New American Security, a think-tank. The region also has a structural disadvantage: a lack of scale. Benefiting from a huge, homogeneous home markets, America's and China's tech giants have a surfeit of the most vital resource for AI: data")

(2) Nevada's brothels | Bras and Ballot Initiatives. Nevada's most notorious brothel-keeper is also a Republican candidate.
https://www.economist.com/united ... epublican-candidate
(Alice Little * * * Claims to be America's top-earning legal prostitute, on track to book $1.2m this year * * * [of] Moonlite Bunny Ranch

My comment:
(a) This report is worth reading.
(b)
(i) Alice Little
https://thealicelittle.com/
(ii)
(A) BunnyRanch. 69 Moonlite Road, Carson City, NV
https://www.bunnyranch.com

Despite the brothel's address in its website, it is physically located at Lyon County, not Carson City. In Google Maps, you can see the address is about a mile west of intersection of Route 341 and Route 30 (also known as Lincoln Highway.
(B) Moonlite BunnyRanch
https://www.bunnyranch.comhttps: ... Moonlite_BunnyRanch
(1955- ; table: County  None (Independent city); photos)
(iii)
(A) Carson City, Nevada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_City,_Nevada
(capital of Nevada; 2010 census: 55,274; 30 miles (50 km) south of Reno; gold and silver were discovered in 1859 on nearby Comstock Lode)
(B) Carson City History. Carson City Chamber of Commerce, undated
www.carsoncitychamber.com/index. ... carson_city_history
("Founded in 1858 by pioneer Abraham Curry, Carson City takes its name from the nearby Carson River, named for early frontiersman Kit Carson")
(C) Kit Carson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Carson
(c) 'While stripping in Las Vegas [where prostitution is illegal], Tiara Tae, now a sex worker at the Bunny Ranch, saw countless streetwalkers get 'ho charges' -- a 'little bit of jail time and a huge-ass fine.' "

The "ho" or Hoe" is an euphemism for "whore."
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 楼主| 发表于 9-27-2018 15:16:55 | 显示全部楼层
(3) Banyan | Stuffing the Ballot Box. Many Asian leaders think elections are too important to be left to voters.
("Of you are a dictation, why not flaunt it and abolish elections? * * * If they hold elections without losing, as Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas put it in 'How to Rig an Election [Yale University Press, Apr 4, 2018],' they can have their cake and eat it")

(4) Free exchange | We the Shareholders. A radical idea for reducing inequality deserves more attention.
("The socialists of the 19th century reckoned that the best way to check the power of capital was collective ownership/ Experiments with state management of economy in the 20th century made the shortcomings of such systems horribly clear, In practice, they tend to be violently coercive, and their inability to take advantage of
distributed knowledge of markets often produces a grinding stagnation. (China may have so far avoided this outcome, but it has also signally failed to produce an equitable distribution of wealth.  The market for ideas is, however, stocked with gentler, more practical leftism. Perhaps, for instance, the state could own a share of the economy's assets on behalf of the population. In a recent paper Matt Bruenig, a left-leaning writer, argues for the creation of an American 'social wealth fund.' The fund * * * disburse a share of its investment income each year as a 'universal basic dividend.' * * * And there are workable examples already in operation. Alaska's fund, financed with royalties from oil industry, is worth 113% of its GDP. It is invested in a diversified portfolio that has yielded annual returns of nearly 10% over its lifetime. The fund's dividend payments appear to reduce wealth inequality and poverty, without discouraging recipients from finding work. Norway's government, through oil-funded sovereign wealth funds created to protect its generous social safety-net against future declines in oil revenue, controls nearly 60% of the country's wealth. Yet the country has not turned into a grey socialist dystopia")

Note:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b) What is Distributed Knowledge: "information dispersed throughout a community of practice and not held by any one individual"
IGI Global, undated
https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/distributed-knowledge/8067

Based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, IGI Global is an academic publisher whose slogan is "Disseminotor of Knowledge."
(c) China "has also signally failed to produce an equitable distribution of wealth"

English dictionary:
* signally (adv): "in a signal manner : NOTABLY"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/signally
* signal (adj; etymology: "modification of [Modern] French signalé, past participle of signaler to distinguish * * * from Medieval Latin signale"): "distinguished from the ordinary : NOTABLE  <a signal achievement>"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/signal

Compare, in the preceding Web page, signal (n; etymology: "Middle English [of the same spelling: signal], from Medieval Latin [noun] signale [signal: Wiktionary] * * *  from Latin [noun neuter] signum [a sign]")
(d) Matt Bruenig, Social Wealth Fund for America/ People's Policy Project (which Bruenig founded in 2017), Aug 28, 2018 (online publication).
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/social-wealth-fund/
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