@Alien
My professional experience is commercial, military, and academic - primarily with US, Japanese, Chinese, and US subsidiaries in the UK working mostly at Chief Engineer or C-level. From a management perspective - I've seen massive fraud, widespread professional plagiarism (copying other company's implementation documentation and trying to present it as original engineering work), pervasive and persistent contract fraud, design fraud, project fraud - the list is endless (aka what is WRONG with this world?). I ALWAYS have to prepare for staff meetings with subordinates in advance - as they've also engaged in fraud, criminal activity (embezzling, misuse of government resources), and just plain outright bold-faced lies. So I'm exceptionally pessimistic regarding processes that involve people. Trust is an exceedingly rare thing for me, professionally.
@Geezer
Certain physical phenomena occur within limited "bands" of conditions - example snow or rain will form within a limited spectrum of temperature, pressure (altitude), and humidity.
As an example - assume snow only forms between 0-10C - then expand your graph to include -10 to +20C. However you also limit your simulations or lab measurements to the 0-10C band.
Viola - you have random data within the 0-10C band, with occasional data points outside due to experimental errors, drift, etc et viola - your random data is now essentially banded - has an upper and lower limit, and you may now proceed with applying curve fitting algorithms to random data.
Statistics and accounting are commonly known "inside the profession" as "lying with numbers". The buzzword for this today is Decision-based data - cherry-picking data to support a biased, pre-disposed position.
Data-based decisions are not always correct and decision-based data is rather moot, but this is the illusion of the US MBA management philosophy and it's spread into government, academia, and is prolific in industry.
But - at the end of the day - it's still just my personal opinion, based on multiple severely polluted professional careers, within narrow spectrums of domestic and multinational corporations, government interactions (to include SOEs), etc.
Your milage may vary (YMMV).
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者I seem to see quite few people, including kids, using the various systems, so in that regard, assuming it's economically sustainable, I personally think it's a great idea, with tremendous social value.
As for the very valid issues raised above, the system will have some growing pains as the operators and the cities learn to coexist with this new emerging social and business model.
Interview: Kunming Keats School co-founder Liu Zier
发布者Great article and introduction to Keats. I noticed the article did NOT touch on employee loyalty and retention programs (at the cost of profit). Keats may wish to address this kind of core infrastructure in the future, at the appropriate time.
Popular night market locations closed, ban appears permanent
发布者Although the street markets were somewhat interesting - I'm actually glad they cleared them off the sidewalks and are also clearing the streets of illegally parked cars. The area around wenhua xiang looks and feels much more relaxed now.
Fall from grace complete, Qiu He sentenced to prison
发布者Very sad to hear about Qiu He. Accomplished so much for this city during his short tenure.
Yuxi begins experiment as one of China's 'Sponge Cities'
发布者Finally - the beginning of separation of sewage from rainwater. Now - if they could only monetize the system in some manner, so they won't need to raise taxes.