March 20, 2019

Visualizing EV Sales Around the World

”Norway, after amassing a fortune through oil and gas extraction, made the conscious decision to create incentives for its citizens to purchase electric vehicles. As a result, the country is the undisputed leader in EV adoption.
In 2018, a one-third of all passenger vehicles were fully electric, and that percentage is only expected to increase in the near future. The Norwegian government has even set the ambitious target of requiring all new cars to be zero-emission by 2025. “

Nick Routley

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My Thoughts

Norways’s sovereign wealth fund that is based entirely on its oil fields is valued at $1 Trillion.

I found these two graphics particularly interesting.

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March 20, 2019

The Challenge Of Self-sovereign Identity In The Digital World

My bold

“Dubus speaks about”that membrane of inviolability that should be around every human being.” Expanding on that, he adds, “You can’t violate someone’s sacred space without asking.” Then, “but in a fight you have to violate it right away, and once you learn to do that, you can always do it.”Those two points — that we have a sacred space inside a membrane of inviolability, and that once we violate another’s sacred space we can make a habit of it — lay out the challenge for self-sovereign identity in the digital world.”

Doc Searls

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My Thoughts

Related and Connected …. it’s interesting to think about this when watching the news today about the corruption in our businesses and governments. How did they think they’d get away with it? … we continually ask.

Because they always have.

Because they did it once and weren’t caught - so did it again.

Over and over and over they ’violated the law, decency our democracy … and thus their was the habit born.

politics people.first

March 20, 2019

CEO Pay Is Still Growing

”Big-company CEOs have seen a median pay raise of about 40 percent since 2010. Ordinary workers have seen a pay raise of 20 percent. Adjusted for inflation, that’s 25 percent for CEOs and 5 percent for ordinary workers. And why not? After all, CEOs have been coasting along on a long wave of good economic times, and why shouldn’t they be rewarded for that? What’s more, in 2016 they helped elect a guy who gave them a big tax cut in 2017. Why shouldn’t they be rewarded for that too? As for ordinary workers, they coasted along too, and they also voted for the tax-cut guy. Oddly enough, no one thinks they should be rewarded for that. Go figure.”

Kevin Drum

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observations

March 20, 2019

Mike Trout Doesn’t Care About His Online Brand.

… because he just made $430 Million.

“I got in some hot water a few years ago for writing a New York Times op-ed in which I argued that young people needed to spend less energy desperately trying to build their online presence, and more energy quietly developing unambiguously valuable skills. (I even wrote a book about this.)”

Cal Newport

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Good points from Cal Newport - but not why I am throwing this in here. $430 Million for a baseball player. The world really has gone mad.

observations

March 20, 2019

North Korea Warns That It May Restart Missile Tests

My Bold …

“Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui…said the North was deeply disappointed by the failure of the two sides to reach any agreements at the Hanoi summit between Kim and President Donald Trump….[She] said Kim was …
puzzled by what she called the “eccentric” negotiation position of the U.S. She suggested that while Trump was more willing to talk, the U.S. position was hardened by the uncompromising demands of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton.”

Kevin Drum

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My Thoughts

Well - knock me down with a feather duster … Bolton uncompromising - who could have seen that coming?

politics

March 20, 2019

American Leadership on Air Safety Under Question Across the Globe

“Critics at home and abroad are blaming, at best, erratic decision-making and, at worst, domestic commercial interests, for what many of them decry as a flawed U.S. reaction.”

John Gruber

The Story

How Deregulation Made Flying More Dangerous

My Bold

““The roots of this crisis can be found in a major change that the FAA instituted in its regulatory responsibility in 2005. Rather than naming and supervising its own ‘designated airworthiness representatives,’ the agency decided to allow Boeing and other manufacturers who qualified under the revised procedures to select their own employees to certify the safety of their aircraft. In justifying this change, the agency said at the time that it would save the aviation industry about $25 billion from 2006 to 2015. Therefore, the manufacturer is providing safety oversight of itself. This is a worrying move toward industry self-certification.”“

David Crook

The Rest Of The Story

politics around.the.world

March 20, 2019