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2021年经济学人 自动驾驶汽车（3）
You could, for instance, ask a car fitted with a reasoning engine why it had hit the brakes, and it would be able to tell you that it thought a bicycle hidden by a van was about to enter the intersection ahead. 例如，如果问一辆装有推理引擎
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2021年经济学人 自动驾驶汽车（4）
As Dr Hawke puts it, the complexity of most real-world tasks is greater than is possible to solve with handcrafted rules, and it's well known that expert systems built with rules tend to struggle with complexity. 正如霍克博士所说，大多现实
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2021年经济学人 勤劳的革命者——地壳构造板块（1）
Books and Arts 文学与艺术 Book Review 书评 Industrious revolutionaries - Tectonic plates 勤劳的革命者地壳构造板块 The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain. By Tristram Hunt. 《激进的波特：乔赛亚
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2021年经济学人 勤劳的革命者——地壳构造板块（2）
Ambitious, obsessive and empirical, Wedgwood raged at his dilatory, drunken, Idle, worthless workmen, then set about reforming them. 韦奇伍德是有野心的、痴迷的，且信奉经验主义，对他拖拉、酗酒、懒惰、毫无价值的工人
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2021年经济学人 气候变化会否触发金融危机?(1)
Finance economics 财经板块 Climate risk 气候风险 Could climate change trigger a financial crisis? 气候变化会否触发金融危机？ IN RECENT YEARS regulators have begun warning about the threat that climate change poses to the stabilit
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2021年经济学人 气候变化会否触发金融危机?(2)
The second channel is financial firms exposure to the hazards of rising temperatures. 第二个方面是金融公司会暴露在气温上升所带来的危害中。 Attributing individual natural disasters to climate change is tricky, but the Financi
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2021年经济学人 气候变化会否触发金融危机?(3)
The value of financial assets exposed to transition risk is potentially very large. 暴露在转型风险之下的金融资产的价值可能非常大。 According to Carbon Tracker, a climate think-tank, around $18trn of global equities, $8trn of bo
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2021年经济学人 气候变化会否触发金融危机?(3)
The value of financial assets exposed to transition risk is potentially very large. 暴露在转型风险之下的金融资产的价值可能非常大。 According to Carbon Tracker, a climate think-tank, around $18trn of global equities, $8trn of bo
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2021年经济学人 气候变化会否触发金融危机?(4)
In its most severe scenario there was a sudden change in climate policy alongside rapid progress in renewable energy development, causing a double shock for companies and a severe recession. 在最严重的情况下，气候政策的突然变化伴随着
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2021年经济学人 萨尔瓦多的比特币合法化开局不顺
Business 商业 El Salvadors roll-out of bitcoin as legal tender got off to a shaky start. 萨尔瓦多推出比特币作为法定货币的开局并不顺利。 The Central American country is the first in the world to adopt the cryptocurrency as an
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2021年经济学人 日本首相菅义伟宣布辞职
The world this week - Politics 本周国际要闻政治 The Taliban announced an interim government for Afghanistan. 塔利班宣布成立阿富汗临时政府。 The new cabinet included no women and few non-Pushtuns. 新内阁中没有女性成员，
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2021年经济学人 欧盟为可食用昆虫开绿灯
Europe 欧洲板块 Edible insects 可食用昆虫 A bug's life 虫子的一生 The EU lets farm animals and people eat insects 欧盟允许家畜和人类吃昆虫 First it was pets, then fish. Now it's poultry and pigs. 先是宠物，然后是鱼，
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2021年经济学人 英国放弃抵抗,愿与病毒共存
Britain 英国板块 Covid-19 新冠病毒 Living with it 共存 The government accepts that it cannot defeat the virus 政府承认无法战胜病毒 Once upon a time, no speech by Boris Johnson was complete without a promise to defeatthe coronaviru
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2021年经济学人 Epic与Apple的反垄断大战(1)
Business 商业 Big tech and antitrust - An unEpic victory 科技巨头和反垄断一场非Epic的胜利（译者注：unEpic为双关，既指这场官司的获胜方不是Epic，也指这场胜利是非史诗性的） Apple wins a court battle aga
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2021年经济学人 Epic与Apple的反垄断大战(2)
On closer inspection, the bag begins to look decidedly mixed for the tech giant. 经进一步审视发现，对于这家科技巨头来说，这个结果显然是喜忧参半的。 The court did not say it is impossible to show that Apple is an illeg
