> She is the author of “Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance – A Cautionary Tale,” from which this article is adapted.
So I think structurally, the conclusion here is that 'cat bonds are an example of how insurers can work with abstract risks, and so any risk (such as global pandemic) could be worked with this way', and the rest of the book then examines how people are trying to actually do so with pandemic risk.
Even then the usual thing about regexp DoS is that "it's possible to write a regexp that is very very slow to process", not about the text being matched.
For validation, the programmer typically controls the regexp exactly as much as they control the rest of the source code.
The first radios were spark gap transmitters (see Hertz's famous experiment). Though to be clear, Hertz's experiment was rather unconventional as the spark gap served as both the transmitting antenna (albeit a fairly noisy one) and also as a switch. Subsequent designs utilize the spark gap only as a high voltage switch. In modern tank circuits, this "switch" is replaced with a solid state transistor (or similar type of devices).
Modern plasma antennas are much more advanced than the traditional spark gaps.
It would need to do something like spit out each frequency in a different direction then you use light material in circle that flaps when sound energy is transmitted in that direction. Sounds possible. Analog computer of sorts.
They should replace some of the panels with machined metamaterial and give it some RF absorbing paint. Would sell like hotcakes in the current political climate.
With the Embraer partnership[1] and the additional production capacity _and_ demand it generates, a hotcake situation is looking increasingly more realistic for Saab.
I don't think they have much issues with their order backlog currently. Sweden just joined NATO and every NATO member is trying to modernize their military and is increasing spending big time.
This demonstration is interesting. Basically they are trialing the concept of having planes without pilots. Which of course turns them into big drones. Lots of people talking about this but not a lot of companies demonstrating they can do it. I think that might stimulate sales a lot more than some panel work.
The issue with trying to study US YIMBY through the lens of Asian urban planning is that most of these Asian countries have very different approaches to civil rights and private property than America. Japan has the added complication of routine natural disasters forcing rebuilds of housing. Singapore is a tiny city-state with a strong single party unicameral government (no separate parliaments, no municipal/state/federal divide) and a willingness to use eminent domain powers (and you don't "own" property there, most land is not freehold, you are merely temporarily leasing it from the state). South Korea is more similar to the US with a high percentage of rental owners but they also have a negative population growth (same as Japan). The less said about North Korea the better. People in these countries are also used to public transport, which is completely unacceptable to most Americans used to car ownership.
In short, some of these models are nice to be admired from afar and I definitely recommend going in person to to experience them, but I doubt there's truly any interesting takeaways that truly useful for the US.
> and you don't "own" property there, most land is not freehold, you are merely temporarily leasing it from the state
Nobody really owns land: the government disallows many many activities, maybe charges you a yearly rental, and just has different hurdles to take it from you (eminent domain, market replacement cost). Even freehold is more like a franchise right to sell your freehold. Perpetual is somewhat irrelevant given zoning restrictions.
You can substitute EU for US and large parts of the point remains. The context of the EU and Asia is also very different. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. We should still look at what others do, but we need to be careful extrapolating as sometimes things are the way they are because of some factor nobody is even aware of.
Sure, if you don't want your wings anymore. The wings are the primary fuel tanks. You can drain the fuel out during flight but the process can take hours.
There is a fuel drain button, it's just slow. Google "fuel jettison". Sometimes you have to make an emergency descent and the plane is too heavy (or too dangerous to carry so much fuel). From the ground it would look like "chemtrails". You can look up videos of this on YouTube.
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