Not my field of study or existence, but what happened in a bare hundred years to make public execution private, and prisons into factories into schools?
It's a great book, you should read it.
The Republic (Plato)
How do you get someone to listen to you? (first answer: threaten them with violence). "Footnotes to" etc.
My understanding is that the median condo in Singapore costs $1M USD. Is this not true, and if it is, then how is $1M USD for a condo considered cheap?
You can get condos next to The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills for that price...
That's for private condos. 80% of people in Singapore live in government built public housing. The cost of the average public apartment is more like $300k which is not that bad for a city like Singapore.
As far as I can tell most comparisons for "the price of housing between Singapore and X" only look at private condos, probably because X doesn't have anything like Singapore's public flats to compare with for almost all values of X.
(When you "buy" a public apartment from the government, you get a 99 year lease, which you can resell. There are restrictions on buying public apartments, if I remember right you have to be a citizen or PR, and you have to be married or 35+. They cannot be bought by corporations.)
It bars corporate landlords from 80% of the housing stock, which is public. However they can buy and rent out the other 20% much like anywhere else, I guess.
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Well... your perspective is valid but not comprehensive. On the lawn of the building are two rather industrial sized generators. When the power goes out, they go on and they keep going. I don't work at a startup. Nor do I work at 3M. There's a lot of space in between. That space is where a lot of the world works. YMMV.
Yes, I'm sure there are some, maybe many offices that have redundant power, but I've worked for 20 person companies and 20,000 person companies, and they all sent people home when the power went out. Even when I briefly worked in a colocation center, I got sent home during a regional power failure as they wanted to give my desk to a large customer that needed a place to work from to keep their business running.
At one company, I was in charge of IT and finally got signoff to run emergency power from the generator to the data center and IDF's to keep the network online in a power failure. Facilities put an end to that plan when they said that without HVAC, the building would quickly become uninhabitable in the summer or winter. We ended up powering the main datacenter to keep servers online, but not the rest of the network.
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