The issue of voting leads us onto the next statement that can be safely made about Solzhenitsyn: he was no believer in democracy. ‘The truth,’ he once declared, ‘cannot be determined by voting, since the majority does not necessarily have any deeper insight into the truth.’ The idea of ‘universal and equal suffrage’, he wrote in Rebuilding Russia, clashed with ‘the tremendous inequality among individuals in terms of their talents, their contribution to society, their ages, their life experience’.

随着白俄流亡家庭融入了各自所生活的西方社会，流亡白俄所代表的自由西化的俄国精神彻底消散了。这一西化传统最远可追溯到彼得大帝和东正教。俄罗斯帝国200年的历程中通过宗教交流、外语学习、通婚、资本流动、旅行、翻译、文学创作、政党和议会运作，俄国才初步成为欧洲文化家庭中的一员。

白俄融入西方社会有天然的优势，因为他们是旧帝国西化和自由精神的继承人。俄罗斯文化本就源自西方，俄国文化就是带有一些俄罗斯地方特色的欧洲文化。旧帝国的精英阶层从小接受法语、英语和德语教育，只有淳朴的乡下农民才只讲俄语。

Chinese glassmaking likely evolved as an attempt to imitate glass imported from Europe and the Middle East. Archeologists find few sites of glassmaking in China.

In Europe glass was used in windows and lanterns, but the Chinese used paper for this purpose.

Why were the Japanese the first to build a large electronics industry based on the transistor, despite the Americans inventing it? Because the US already had a large vacuum tube industry. The vacuum tube was like the bronze of the electronics industry. The transistor was like the iron. Despite having far more promise, it was at an early stage. However, that mattered little to the Japanese, which lacked a sophisticated vacuum tube industry.

In all, 65% of the Central Committee was replaced in 2017, the most since at least 1992. The Politburo also saw two-thirds of its members replaced.

The 33 cadres removed from the Central Committee during Xi's first five years in power was by far the most during the three-decade period reviewed by Bloomberg.

Quiet quitting is a feature of privilege. Advocates discuss such forms of quiet quitting as not answering Slack messages after 5 p.m.—but that already indicates their advantages. How many minimum-wage workers even know what Slack messages are? How many minimum-wage workers have the privilege of stopping work at 5?

The country has been dominated by Assad's Alawite community, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that makes up about 10 percent of the population. Sunni Arabs are the majority at 65 percent, while the Kurds, also Sunnis, are 15 percent, according to Syria expert Fabrice Balanche, who directs the French research center GREMMO.

You must realize that, after reaching a certain age, you are no longer viewed as a person. You become an institution, and you are treated the way institutions are treated. You are expected to behave like a piece of period furniture, an architectural landmark, or an incunabulum. It matters little whether you keep publishing or not. If your papers are no good, they will say, "What did you expect? He is a fixture!" and if an occasional paper of yours is found to be interesting, they will say, "What did you expect? He has been working at this all his life!" The only sensible response is to enjoy playing your newly-found role as an institution.

When slides are used instead of the blackboard, the speaker should spend some time explaining each slide, preferably by adding sentences that are inessential, repetitive or superfluous, so as to allow any member of the audience time to copy our slide. We all fall prey to the illusion that a listener will find the time to read the copy of the slides we hand them after the lecture. This is wishful thinking.

Most of the time they admit that they have forgotten the subject of the course, and all the mathematics I thought I had taught them. However, they will gladly recall some joke, some anecdote, some quirk, some side remark, or some mistake I made.

Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations.

In parallel, King Salman reorganized the Council of Ministers; only Salman remains as a second-generation prince, and various princes were replaced either by technocrats or younger princes with no power base of their own (Rundell, 2021Rundell, D. (2021). Vision or mirage: Saudi Arabia at the crossroads. (I.B. Tauris. ). [Google Scholar]).

“欧洲大陆的命运绝不能由单独的某个大国主导，而应以多国协商的方式处置”——美国国务卿马歇尔1948年4月就英美在西柏林的地位问题对苏联喊话

In 2021, The Guardian wrote despite Saudi Arabia's commitment to diversify its economy, the government was still 75% dependent on oil exports for its budget.

So the countries that use lots more robots in manufacturing than we do are actually managing to put more human beings to work in manufacturing.

But in fact, for the last decade or so, wages at the low end of the distribution (1st and 2nd quartiles) have been outpacing wages at the high end:

When the cancer cells closely resemble normal cells of the organ where they start, the cancer is called well differentiated. When the cells do not look much like normal cells, the cancers are called poorly differentiated. Cancers of unknown primary are often poorly differentiated.

Volume contrast imaging is a new ultrasonographic method that increases the contrast between tissues. It consists of a 5- to 10-mm-thick slice-shaped volume image projected on a 2-dimensional screen. The rendering process applied on the slice smoothens the speckle pattern of the image by filling up the gaps with tissue information from the adjacent layers.

Power Doppler sonography is a new technique that displays the strength of the Doppler signal in color, rather than the speed and direction information. It has three times the sensitivity of conventional color Doppler for detection of flow and is particularly useful for small vessels and those with low-velocity flow. Power Doppler sonography shows potential for detecting areas of ischemia in the kidney, brain, and prepubertal testis and for demonstrating hyperemia in areas of inflammation.

Healthcare professionals may sometimes use EKG to avoid confusion between ECGs and an electroencephalogram, or EEG, which is a test to measure brain waves.

According to the United States National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus, the abbreviation EKG is based on the German spelling of electrocardiogram, which is elektrokardiogramm.

The tracer travels through the bloodstream and is absorbed by the healthy heart muscle. On the scan, the areas where tracer has been absorbed look different from the areas that do not absorb it. Areas that are damaged or don't have good blood flow do not absorb the tracer. The damaged areas may be called “cold spots” or “defects.”

Companies must have the SFDA approval in the form of a certificate for their entity and their products.

An expired AR will trouble the shipment clearance at the port so it is best to closely monitor its validity.

The ultrasound market is divided into many segments, including diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound.

Microbubble contrast materials can be targeted or untargeted. Untargeted contrast-enhanced ultrasound —the more common method— helps diagnose certain diseases by providing evaluation of blood flow in the heart and other organs. In targeted contrast-enhanced ultrasound, specific molecules are bound to the surface of the microbubbles. After injection, the microbubbles attach to specific targeted tissue sites, causing an increase in the ultrasound signal at the sites.

However, science and clinical experience show that the quality of food is much more important than the quantity

The most well-known type of intermittent fasting follows a 16:8 schedule, with a 16-hour fast and an eight-hour window for eating.

When people have too much insulin, their cells start to resist the insulin and, in response, the body has to make more. We try to find strategies to decrease the amount of insulin the body makes, so we can improve insulin resistance.

Because the researchers only measured inflammation levels after lunch, she says, “it’s possible that skipping breakfast increases inflammation at lunchtime but decreases it other times of the day.”

The researchers concluded that because chronic inflammation is known to affect insulin sensitivity, skipping breakfast could contribute to “metabolic impairment,” which could potentially raise the risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes.

They found no difference in 24-hour glucose levels, insulin secretion or total physical activity between the three days. But glucose concentrations and markers of inflammation and insulin resistance were higher after lunch on breakfast-skipping days.

They found that people burned more calories over a 24-hour period when they extended their overnight fast by skipping either lunch (41 more calories) or dinner (91 more calories), compared with the three-meals-a-day schedule.

The machine, not knowing that the sound waves are traveling through fat, of course continues to assume that they are traveling at a speed of 1540m/s. Since the sound waves are in reality traveling slower than this, they take longer to get back to the transducer. Due to the relationship between distance and time, the machine displays this extra time taken as 0.77cm of additional depth.

Hence, a piano based C‐note does not sound the same as a C‐note played on a guitar, due to the existence of harmonic frequencies. The same note from various instruments has different qualities because the sounds are not pure notes i.e. of one frequency and these integral multiples of the fundamental frequency (overtones) give an instrument its characteristic sound.

Microbubbles work by resonating in an ultrasound beam, rapidly contracting and expanding in response to the pressure changes of the sound wave. By a fortunate coincidence, they vibrate particularly strongly at the high frequencies used for diagnostic ultrasound imaging.

列宁此举让托洛茨基的死党苏联前外长越飞钦佩不已，1927年政治斗争失败的越飞在自杀时，曾写给托洛茨基一封信，信中他猛烈批评托洛茨基的软弱：“您终究不是伟大的伊里奇（列宁），您永远不敢像伊里奇那样主动施行最具争议行动，去履行必须完成的使命，这是你我今天走向毁灭的根本原因。”

反向三角并购是最常见的并购交易结构之一，是指买方通过一个子公司收购目标公司的股票，子公司随后并入目标公司，交易后该子公司解散，目标公司存续，但变成买方的子公司。

《管理办法》正式稿的另一重点是对电子烟口味的严格限制，规定了“禁止销售除烟草口味外的调味电子烟和可自行添加雾化物的电子烟”。

I should not have aggressively grown the company without a stronger plan. We should have just stuck to what we knew best and continued to build quirky, fun smartwatches for hackers.

Pebble Time did not succeed because in a quest for huge growth we attempted to expand beyond our initial geeky/hacker user base and failed to reposition it — first as a productivity device, then as a fitness watch.

What Walmart marketplace offers that Amazon lacks is their Listing Quality Dashboard tool. It provides powerful insights into metrics like discoverability, ratings, and post-purchase quality so you can make impactful improvements to drive more traffic and increase conversions. They also provide sellers with a comprehensive product listing guide. 

战略定位：立足于电子信息产业高端服务业，面向电子信息产业提供涵盖产品、交易、技术、信息、数据和创新创业的全链条、全方位服务，以此构建丰富、独特的产业功能和价值，并逐步向产业链上下游延伸、拓展，立志成为电子信息产业高端服务业的引领者和拥有电子元器件设计、制造和销售完整产业链的虚拟或实体IDM集团。

　　“个人参加个人养老金制度最直接的好处，就是可以享受国家税收优惠政策。”人社部养老保险司司长聂明隽说。

非业主增值服务是物管企业与房企更重要的纽带。汤晓晨告诉财新，物管企业通常会帮助房企销售新房，甚至包销车位；帮助地产商设计户型图纸；承接新房交付的全流程服务，包括两年质保期内的维修业务等。　　“在关联企业之间，这些业务如何定价，弹性空间非常大。”前述房企高管称。

“物业费受到政府限价管控，毛利率很低，小区物管通常还需要房企给予补贴”。

the pivotal role that chief executives play in setting a clear direction, aligning the organization, managing stakeholders, and serving as “motivator in chief.”

“从SWIFT的地位来看，各国要离开SWIFT独立打造和运营新的跨国支付报文传送网络是非常困难的。参与并共同维持SWIFT的独立、专业、公正运行，从全球而言仍是最合理的方案。”王永利说。

Of course, there’s a trade-off since this creates a centralized chokepoint, but let’s leave that rabbit hole for another day. ;)

There are two ways to broadcast a new transaction:Set up your own node which runs the Ethereum blockchain softwareUse nodes provided by third-party services like Infura, Alchemy, and Quicknode

开群众大会，唱革命歌曲，向国旗宣誓，这些后来被共产党军队继承下来的优良传统，全都是他们发明的。（刘大明：《“民族再生”的期望：法国大革命时期的公民教育》，北京，中国社会科学出版社，2005年。）法军士兵旺盛的战斗意志，不仅仅来源于政治教育，也基于现实的好处，1793年6月和7月，革命政府三次颁布了法令，进行了土改，把领主们和逃跑的贵族们，所占有的土地无偿分配给了全体农民，让法国出现了“汪洋大海”般的自耕农，所以为了保护他们的既得利益，他们也愿意为法兰西而战。（高德步、王钰：《世界经济史》 北京中国人民出版社，2017年。）

雅各宾派振臂一呼，在８月２３日颁布法令直接明言：“从现在直到国家的敌人被驱逐出法兰西共和国的领土为止，所有的法国人都需服从军队的需要。青年开赴前线，有家室的人制造武器、运送军需，妇女制作营帐被服或做医务工作，儿童也要改制绷带，老人们要负责给战士们打气，宣传对国王的仇视和对共和国一致的拥护。”这么邪乎的命令，法国就真的做到了，为什么能这样呢？因为《人权宣言》的颁布，让所有的法国人都相信，“人民是一切权力的源泉，同时也是一切权力的执行者”，他们自己就是这个国家的主人，所以他们自愿为这个国家抛头颅，洒热血。

在冷兵器时代，没有受过训练的屁民们，不管多么的热血沸腾，也无法对阵专业的骑士们，但是在火器时代，在排队枪毙这个战术前提之下，勇气和人数变成了第一重要的因素。所以到了这个时代，要想取得战争的胜利，领导人就必须是民众意志的代表者，就必须去迎合民粹，而拿破仑所倡导的拿破仑主义，在这方面做得出神入化，再加上拿破仑本人高超的战术指挥能力，法国依靠着强大的动员能力，士兵的主人翁精神，从此在欧洲大陆的战场上，所向披靡。

按照列宁的说法：“拿破仑主义是君主制在丧失了原有的宗法制或封建制的牢靠支柱以后，所采取的顺风转舵的手段，这样的君主制不得不竭力维持平衡以防跌倒，卖弄风骚以便统治，实行收买以便讨好，同社会渣滓、同公开的小偷和骗子称兄道弟以便不单单靠刺刀维持统治。”（《列宁全集》中文第2版第17卷第249页）如果让我们用大白话来说，那就是民粹主义。

Can a statement be x-ist, for whatever value of x, and also true? If the answer is yes, then they're admitting to banning the truth.

when someone calls a statement "x-ist," they're also implicitly saying that this is the end of the discussion.

Pakistan’s military establishment has dismissed ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s claims that he was the victim of a US-led conspiracy, and described his visit to Moscow on the day Russia invaded Ukraine as “embarrassing”.

“In parts of Pakistan, anti-Americanism sells to the public, such as areas along the Afghan border,” Rizvi said, adding that it was possible Khan could emerge as a strong opposition leader.

他认为数学学习的进程，应当遵循人类数学发现的天然演化过程，而不是遵循数学家后来建构出来的逻辑关系，从集合开讲其他数学概念。这就好比是基本粒子是构成物质世界的基础，难道物理课就需要给初中生先讲粒子物理？

没有这个“小我”，一切都没有基础；而“小我”又必须不断上升到更高阶的“大我”，你的自我意识才真正充实起来。

Reed saw the DVD format proliferating in Japan but had never used one himself. So he drove to the store and got himself one. He then mailed it. To his great surprise, it came back in great shape. It worked. 

I recently heard a business journalist say that when he’s short on story ideas, he’ll just look for people who have given TED talks and “figure out what they’re lying about.”

It became clear that social media was only free because our personal data was being mined and sold to advertisers.

TED’s influence on intellectual culture was “taking something with value and substance and coring it out so that it can be swallowed without chewing,” Bratton said. “This is not the solution to our most frightening problems — rather, this is one of our most frightening problems.”

rhetorical style TED helped popularize was “middlebrow megachurch infotainment,” and had begun to directly influence the type of intellectual work that could be undertaken.

It is an aesthetic of populist elitism. Politically, the inspiresting performs a certain kind of progressivism, as it is concerned with making the world a better place, however vaguely.

anyone is capable of giving a TED-esque talk. You just need an interesting topic and then you need to attach that topic to an inspirational story.

TED’s archive is a graveyard of ideas. It is a seemingly endless index of stories about the future

Adding a new dimension of interaction presents both a challenge and an opportunity for designers to create intuitive and accessible interfaces. It will also require marketers to educate consumers who may be hesitant to welcome unfamiliar sensors into their lives.

analyze how the person closest to the display is sleeping, based on their movement and breathing — all without a camera or wearable

Another benefit of radar is that it can see through plastic and other materials. This makes it a great choice for consumer electronics because it can be placed underneath the enclosure.

One of mmWave's major advantages is its privacy-preserving nature. Because mmWave radar doesn’t process visual light, what it sees is not personally identifiable. This makes it an ideal choice for monitoring where a camera would not be appropriate.

However, I had never thought about the social downsides of using something where you can literally see your net worth fluctuate in real time. If we already know the mental toll that competing for Internet Points (i.e. Instagram likes) takes on people, imagine what this kind of product could do. I’m reminded of the Black Mirror episode where people constantly rate their interactions with others on a 5 point scale, and your score would have real world consequences (think Uber stars, but for everything).

creators essentially become the sole employee of a public company and have to manage their stock NFT price as such.

Web3’s culture of intensely focusing on economic upside will be detrimental in the long run

DeepL 先计算了文本中所有 i 的数量，然后对真正的时间戳进行一个小小的运算 ts - ts % i_count + i_count，这个运算差不多仅会改变时间戳的毫秒部分，这个改变如果用人眼来验证根本无法发现，人类看来就是一个普通的时间戳，不会在意毫秒级的差别。

The case against Tao was part of what the Justice Department called its China Initiative, an effort created in 2018 to crack down on trade secret theft and economic espionage. The department in February ended the initiative following public criticism and failed prosecutions, though officials say they still intend to pursue the threat from China.

On the Internet, your rate of learning is limited not by access to information, but by your ability to ignore distractions.

they are incentivized to have users spend the maximum time on their sites.

Tensions have risen between the Taliban and Pakistan's military, which has lost several soldiers in attacks close to their mutual border. Pakistan wants the Taliban to do more to crack down on extremist groups and worries they will spread violence into Pakistan. That has begun to happen already.

When you think about it, OpenSea would actually be much “better” in the immediate sense if all the web3 parts were gone. It would be faster, cheaper for everyone, and easier to use.

the only amount of decentralization people want is the minimum amount required for something to exist

Iterating quickly on centralized platforms is already outpacing the distributed protocols and consolidating control into platforms.

It doesn’t functionally matter that my NFT is indelibly on the blockchain somewhere, because the wallet (and increasingly everything else in the ecosystem) is just using the OpenSea API to display NFTs, which began returning 304 No Content for the query of NFTs owned by my address!

What surprised me about the standards was that there’s no hash commitment for the data located at the URL.

Instead of storing the data on-chain, NFTs instead contain a URL that points to the data.

So much work, energy, and time has gone into creating a trustless distributed consensus mechanism, but virtually all clients that wish to access it do so by simply trusting the outputs from these two companies without any further verification.

Meanwhile, ethereum actually refers to servers as “clients,” so there’s not even a word for an actual untrusted client/server interface that will have to exist somewhere, and no acknowledgement that if successful there will ultimately be billions (!) more clients than servers.

If something is truly decentralized, it becomes very difficult to change, and often remains stuck in time.

A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform.

People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.

allow people to interact in mutually beneficial ways without anyone needing to trust each other. With technologies for message passing and data publication, we hoped to construct a peer-to-peer web that lets you do everything you can now, except there would no servers and no authorities to manage the flow of information.

while the second Sino-India war of 1967 saw India push China back, further obfuscating the location of the Himalayan border.

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