The Changji-Guquan ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission line in China is the world’s first transmission line operating at 1,100kV voltage.
What is even the purpose of this? I suspect it is to add credibility to these profiles so they won’t trigger automated fraud systems and can be sold or used for something else.
They weren't bets, they were insurance policies against punitive damages after the Griggs v. Duke Power precedent. "Disparate Impact" now meant that unequal outcomes between ethnicities and sexes were to be interpreted as discrimination.
Right. Some of us are old enough to remember Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in the 90s[1]. One of the ways they attacked racism was to find a large corporation where the racial diversity of the employees didn't match that of the local community. They couldn't just sue the company yet then, so they would start a media campaign, promising boycotts and demonstrations, unless the corporation changed its ways. Many large corporations did, signing agreements with Jackson's organization promising to do better, and making a kind donation to the organization to help to continue the work.
So even before disparate impact became a legal threat to corporations, executives were feeling the pressure to comply with whatever the current expectations were on the matter.
If a DEI program reaches equal outcomes and keeps going, to the point where it has positions held by >70% protected class employees, and has a goal of changing that to be >90%, then their mission would seem to be about something other than equality.
Fair -- insurance instead of bet is probably a more realistic way to frame it. I like the optimistic approach that it was a bet on it ushering a lot of collective upside for all parties involved.
Mandalorian benefitted a lot from being far more episodic, though of course it also had some longer plot lines. Most shows that try to make their main thing the prestige TV “big damn plot” just aren’t very good at it. Episodic’s easier to get right, or at least to do OK.
It’s also a better star wars, in that it’s playing in the same space as the originals, and not a lot of things do that very well, so it’s nice to see anything doing it decently well. Andor’s competition is basically all of political action-thrillers, and that’s a crowded space in which it doesn’t really stand out.
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