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The most common misunderstanding about economics is that it is only about money and commerce. The next step is easy: I care about more than money, and so should everyone, so let’s leave economics to stock jobbers and money managers and otherwise dispense with its teachings. This is a fateful error, because, as Mises says, economics concerns everyone and everything. It is the very pith of civilization This is a confusion sown by economists themselves, who postulate something called “e...

The velocity of money does not have a life of its own

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DeepMind 又在「捏小人」了！這群小人是英國人工智慧實驗室 DeepMind 生產的 AI，不過只能在遊戲裡看到。但你可能不知道的是，DeepMind 還訓練過 AI 下象棋、玩足球、比電競，甚至提出人工生命言論。 最近這群AI，竟然能直接跳過數據訓練，在開放式任務環境自...

武漢肺炎（新型冠狀病毒病，COVID-19）不斷的變異，不免讓人感到憂心，何時才能找到可預測的動向？醫師表示，病毒的變異是由進化論驅動的生存行為，不過變種病毒的突然出現，並非一點一滴慢慢累積，這打破了民眾對突變的既有認知。加上人類基於防疫的各種行為，導致病毒的自然突變受影響，因此醫師認為無法預測病毒

Much more dangerous. in the most extreme, where emissions keep growing, things become catastrophic. but the message is that there is still time to act. in one sentence this report shows that human action has got us to where we are, but human action can also crucially decide how the future will look like. we are not doomed. there is a lot we can all do, like this project in cambridge to fit shades to keep the sun off the windows. this problem is only going to get worse with climate change. we are...

Is still time to act. in one sentence this report shows that human action has got us to where we are, but human action can also crucially decide how the future will look like. we are not doomed. there is a lot we can all do, like this project in cambridge to fit shades to keep the sun off the windows. this problem is only going to get worse with climate change. we are going to have more and more heatwaves and they will be worse and worse, so that is why i think it makes sense to shade your windo...

Things become catastrophic. but the message is that there is still time to act. in one sentence this report shows that human action has got us to where we are, but human action can also crucially decide how the future will look like. we are not doomed. there is a lot we can all do, like this project in cambridge to fit shades to keep the sun off the windows. this problem is only going to get worse with climate change. we are going to have more and more heatwaves and they will be worse and worse,...

In minute detail how the planet is changing. and teams of researchers out in the toughest conditions, gathering data to help work out what is likely to come next. the big question is how much more the planet will heat up in the coming decades, so scientists explore different scenarios. in two of them, there are rapid and deep cuts in carbon emissions and although the temperature does rise to potentially damaging levels, it isjust about within the limits set by the international community. but in...