Sentences with phrase «around issues of scaling»

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«The main issue with Bitcoin itself is that the community around it right now is kind of too polarized,» Karpelès says, citing the split between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash over a disagreement in how best to scale the digital currency.

But people in and around the video game industry tend to raise issues of economic scale as a deterrent to entry.

Setting aside the physics, the bureaucracy of acquiring land rights between large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco and dealing with all the legal issues around large - scale infrastructure construction could be significant hurdles, regardless of who builds a prototype system.

My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary financial events of September and October 2008 — several large financial failures, large - scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share markets — were all observed in real time by households and businesses right around the world.

She has helped AFSA establish its voice and authority on a range of issues and secured frequent meetings with a number of politicians to lobby for significant reform, as well as leading the process for submissions to government inquiries, including the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact of regulation on agriculture, and the Victorian Government's Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal husbandry.

Topics up for discussion this year include issues around genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture, the impact of regulation and planning schemes on small - scale farmers, hunger activism and the «right to food», and food sovereignty at a global level.

On the evaluation front... don't know if you have them in your neck of the woods, but around here Area Education Agencies do free of charge evaluations for speech and hearing issues and also provide assistance on sliding scale basis.

Sarkey, one of those infuriating people with both brains and beauty, described the very idea as an «invasion of privacy on a scale we've never seen», while chief constable Chris Sims, Acpo's lead on the issue, professed to be «acutely conscious of the political issues around the database».

The Exeter and Greenpeace research team say there are «many questions and uncertainties» around seabed mining, including legal issues and the difficulties of predicting the scale and extent of impacts in advance, and of monitoring and regulating mining activity once it takes place in the deep sea.

What the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation has done is unique and inspirational — it is enabling the launch of a very large - scale study with the potential to generate insights akin to what the field of public health has produced, because of population - based research, around pressing issues, such as heart disease and the impact of smoking or lead exposure on health and development.

«Sometimes people think education is an intractable problem,» McCartney said, citing the scale of the issues, the flood of unanalyzed data about students» performance, and the apparently inadequate American level of learning revealed on tests administered around the world — not to mention the daunting gaps in performance between and within U.S. districts.

We do very limited work on advocacy around other specific animal issues such as use of animals in laboratories and companion animal homelessness, because we think good opportunities to help animals are much easier to find in the area of farm animal advocacy (and additionally the less popular area of wild animal suffering).104 The work we do in these areas serves mainly to check our assumptions about the scale, tractability, and neglectedness of various causes.

For example, one night, at a funeral in the village where I was living, a full - scale philosophical discussion of such issues broke out among eight or ten young men squatted around the courtyard «guarding» the corpse.

Hey, I'm not sure how much interest there still is around something like this, but here's a hitbox viewer for the Steam ports of AC+R and #Reload: https://github.com/odabugs/kof-combo-hitboxes/releases There are a few issues remaining such as the lack of grab hitboxes, incorrect hitbox scale on a few moves like Millia 236H or May 236236S, and several projectile moves not showing any hitboxes in #Reload (doesn't seem to be an issue in + R), but overall most of the moves I've tested are correct.

He sees the focus of Rio and related discussions as too mechanistic, and skirting around the need for fostering a new kind of «ecological citizenship» as a precursor to progress on planet - scale environmental issues:

This level of takeup, ongoing even without subsidies, (and doing a Neville don't blame me) means economies of scale and an issue big enough to start moving grid design around.

Since 2014, around 29 GW of utility scale solar tenders have been issued in India.

The ensuing discussion was a simple proxy of some of the issues I was beginning to see raised in the discussions surrounding climate engineering proposals: controversy around the legality of intentionally changing the atmosphere (on any scale), suspicion of private interest in the name of the public good, confusion regarding the science behind it, unpredictability of the outcomes, or questionable logic of nature conservancy rules, to name a few.

But I don't spend much time worrying about safety issues around a large - scale expansion of nuclear power, because such an expansion is neither necessary nor effective to address AGW, so there is no need to deal with the very real dangers and risks of such an expansion.

Robert advises individuals and businesses on a variety of legal issues, including small to medium scale mergers & acquisitions and the protection of intellectual property in jurisdictions around the world.

In this case, SCL's mandate was to ascertain the scale of vote - buying behavior — a longstanding issue in the southeast Asian country — that had inflated the cost of running an election campaign to around $ 1 billion, according to the company's estimates.

«We discussed lots of potential solutions around the scaling issues and debated possible problems with those ideas.