Deck no. 15 Flashcards
łagodzić (sytuację), zażegnać (kryzys)
to defuse
That is because, left to themselves, countries drift into antagonism. Witness the fatal clash of Indian and Chinese forces this week over a border dispute both sides are too proud to defuse.
acute
poważny (np. o problemie)
But it showed with devastating clarity how tech firms struggle to bridge the digital chasm between China and America. This poses an acute business risk for Zoom.
głupkowaty
dopey
Over the past decade PE lending has shifted away from dopey, distracted banks towards specialist private-credit firms.
wrangling
tu: użeranie się z czymś; inne: walka, kłótnia
Data-wrangling of various sorts takes up about 80% of the time consumed in a typical ai project, says Cognilytica.
zatem
by extension
In using the term Logos, the Pope situates Christianity and, by extension, the European culture which grew up under its influence, in the tradition of Greek philosophy.
utterance
wypowiedź
With the knowledge that money in America is based on debt, it should not come as a surprise to learn that the Federal Reserve System is not the least interested in seeing a reduction in debt in this country, regardless of public utterances to the contrary.
podróż samolotem w nocy
redeye
I booked the 9p.m. to San Francisco and the redeye home.
to factor something in
wziąć coś pod uwagę
But most analysts so far don’t seem to be factoring in a delay.
to demote
degradować (pracownika)
Facebook has deployed a multipronged strategy that includes removing fake accounts and eliminating or demoting inauthentic behavior.
sporo; niemało
quite a few
You’re going to have winners and losers, and quite a few losers, says Aurelie L’Hostis, fintech analyst at Forrester Research.
iść zgodnie z planem
to go to plan
Many of the region’s consumers tend to browse online then buy offline. Meanwhile, things in emerging markets are not going to plan.
Tinseltown
Hollywood
Netflix’s story has had a Tinseltown quality to it since its founding in 1997.
termin określający grupę działającą wewnątrz dużej organizacji, w dużym stopniu autonomiczną, nieskrępowaną przez procesy biurokratyczne, pracującą nad zaawansowanymi lub tajnymi projektami
skunk-works
A leading engineer inside Amazon’s Grand Challenge team, a secretive skunk-works unit working on ambitious projects, says morale is rock-bottom. He plans to leave.
on the cusp of something
na progu czegoś (np. dorosłego życia), na przełomie czegoś (np. lat)
On the cusp of a stock-option grant that promises to make him nearly $1 billion richer, at least on paper, Elon Musk made a surprising announcement.
potężny
grandiose
It is running up against limits of one kind or another, and has failed to deliver on some of its proponents’ more grandiose promises.
krótkotrwały
transient
Apple’s fortunes also give Washington politicians a good reason to think twice before escalating conflicts for transient political, rather than long-term strategic, gains.
wniosek
inference
Humans can try to forbid such inferences, says Fabrice Ciais, who runs pwc’s machine-learning team in Britain (and Amazon tried to do exactly that).
daremny trud
fool’s errand
To many of us, a natural life is something we can just make out in the rear-view mirror—and ought to go back and embrace. But it’s a fool’s errand.
buoyant
zwyżkujący, rosnący, prężny (np. zyski, gospodarka)
Mr Bezos, who has added $54bn to his net worth thanks to his company’s buoyant share price while low-paid warehouse workers toil through the pandemic, “needs to lean over backwards to make sure workers are properly treated”, cautions a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
nieznośny, potworny (np. ból)
excruciating
Day 2, which Mr Bezos characterises as Stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline, has not yet dawned. But it is well past noon on Day 1.
underwhelmed
zawiedziony, zniechęcony, niewzruszony
But new phone features— like Wind Down Mode to help you get to sleep on time, and a watch that scolds you if you don’t wash your hands long enough—leave me underwhelmed.
szokujący
staggering
If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought.
domain
dziedzina
In medical diagnostics, for instance, amateur data-labellers can be trained to become almost as good as doctors at recognising things like fractures and tumours. But some amount of what AI researchers call domain expertise is vital.
to scramble
walczyć rozpaczliwie
Milan, Paris or New York this time of year would usually be teeming with fashionistas scrambling to get from the Balenciaga show to the Chanel party.
narzędzie, przyrząd
implement
ln spite of all the broken implements of war that had piled up in its courtyard, there were still vines growing around the doors and windows in the stucco façade of a building that was typically European, typically French.
meticulously
drobiazgowo, skrupulatnie
All this might appear to fit the script Mr Bezos has written over the years in his letters to shareholders, which are now pored over by investors as meticulously as those of Mr Buffett.
glittering
świetlany (np. kariera, przyszłość)
They have slowly picked up as Asia, then Europe and America, started reopening. Even so, the outlook for the luxury world is far from glittering.
lookalike
sobotwór; wierna kopia
If you create a stockmarket clone of Amazon lookalikes, including Shopify, Netflix and ups, it has outperformed Amazon this year.
sygnał ostrzegawczy
red flag
(raise a red flag = budzić wątpliwości)
In those cases, too, Deutsche Bank failed to act on clear red flags, which resulted in those banks being able to transfer funds, including to the U.S.
spłacić dług
to clear a debt
Anticipation of the need to clear this debt creates a demand for the pure fiat dollar.
wspólnie z kimś
in concert with somebody
Two simulated future trade-war games conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in early 2019 found that some of the most effective bargaining strategies with China involved threats to cut off technology exports—especially in concert with allies.
debt-laden
zadłużony
Their debt-laden parents may be forced once more to license shows to Netflix. Disney, its most formidable nemesis, will lack the financial muscle to kill it off completely.
rzucić się na kogoś
to pounce
For years PE barons have boasted of their huge piles of dry powder, which, if spent in a downturn, might generate outsized returns. Now it is time to pounce.
to pinch
podwędzić, zakosić, rąbnąć, buchnąć
Anti-Amazon feeling grew stronger in April, after the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon employees used data on third-party sellers to pinch ideas for the private-label business.
to teem with something
to roić się od czegoś, obfitować w coś
Bars were teeming with locals and tourists sipping Guinness to live music, while the Irish National Opera was performing Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, at the nearby Abbey Theatre.
świetlany (np. kariera, przyszłość)
glittering
They have slowly picked up as Asia, then Europe and America, started reopening. Even so, the outlook for the luxury world is far from glittering.
zniszczyć; ugasić
to extinguish
Since this amount is classified as interest, it is not extinguished as is the larger portion which is a return of the loan itself.
grace period
prolongata, karencja (okres zwolnienia z płacenia np. podatków)
The Economy Ministry said it would instead use a 30-day grace period on about $500 million in interest payments for three foreign bonds as it continues to seek a sustainable debt profile with creditors.
scripture
święta księga
The marriage of Hebrew scripture and Greek philosophy that begat Christianity and subsequently Europe is not mere coincidence, nor is Greek philosophy some adulteration of an otherwise pure Gospel.
to wage war on somebody
prowadzić wojnę przeciwko komuś
In the instance of the Regensburg speech, the outrage surrounding the Manuel II Paleologos quote achieved two ends: first, it strengthened the neoconservative hold over the Catholic mind by giving the impression that Muslims were fanatics determined to wage jihad against both the pope and the Church (the Muslim/Catholic alliance against abortion, which I personally witnessed at the World Population Conference in Cairo in 1994, gave the opposite impression), and secondly, it obscured the real topic of the talk, which was Logos and the central role it plays in both Europe and the Church.
to wage
prowadzić (np. wojnę przeciwko czemuś)
Fintech is prone to the same risks that the financial sector faces and the technology brings its own new risks, says Stasys Jakeliunas, a Lithuanian MEP who has waged a political campaign against Revolut.
złożony, o wielu aspektach
multi-faceted
Former officials, analysts and investors warn that risks appear to have migrated from the banks into a sprawling, multi-faceted investment industry which has grown tremendously over the past decade, partly by stepping into the void left by banks.
to pick up
poprawiać się, polepszać się (o sytuacji)
They have slowly picked up as Asia, then Europe and America, started reopening. Even so, the outlook for the luxury world is far from glittering.
redeye
podróż samolotem w nocy
I booked the 9p.m. to San Francisco and the redeye home.
zarwać noc
to pull an all-nighter
No investment banker worth his salt shows up with-out a spiral-bound pitch book put together by lowly associates pulling all-nighters, with strategy ideas and suggested transactions (investment bankers’ payday!) to solve the company’s future problems.
goodwill
reputacja, renoma firmy
Americans’ reliance on the company and the goodwill it has generated with consumers may help it, says an antitrust expert close to Congress.
strong
określenie ilości lub liczby osób
BA has announced plans to cut up to 30 per cent of its 42,000-strong workforce, while Ryanair is looking at axing 15 per cent.
suffocating
duszny; duszący
lt was a suffocatingly hot day in June of 1918, and the Wandsbeker Hussars were now quartered in a French village on the Soissons-Rheims Line that had lost its strategic significance.
to kowtow
kłaniać się w pas
The dangers of kowtowing to China.
fiasko, plajta
fizzle
That early optimism had fizzled by the 1970s.
to go to plan
iść zgodnie z planem
Many of the region’s consumers tend to browse online then buy offline. Meanwhile, things in emerging markets are not going to plan.
red flag
sygnał ostrzegawczy
(raise a red flag = budzić wątpliwości)
In those cases, too, Deutsche Bank failed to act on clear red flags, which resulted in those banks being able to transfer funds, including to the U.S.
fervently
żarliwie
These and similar developments are the private functional equivalent of China’s social-credit ratings, which critics in the West so fervently decry.
comprehensive
kompleksowy
It is hard to use ai to monitor covid-19 transmission without a comprehensive database of everyone’s movements, for instance.
second-best
namiastka; byle co; gorsza opcja
Sometimes, however, the world must work without America even if that is second-best.
zająć się kimś; zacząć konkurować
to take on
Storonsky’s ambitions have grown exponentially since his first interview with the FT in May 2016, when he talked about taking on supermarkets and the UK Post Office to win a foothold in the market for foreign exchange services.
insurgent
buntownik; zbuntowany; powstaniec
Yet Revolut’s transformation from insurgent start-up to global financial services player has been bumpy – and is far from complete.
loose-lipped
niepotrafiący trzymać języka za zębami, niepotrafiący dochować tajemnicy
Storonsky tends to avoid the gossip traded by other executives in London’s loose-lipped fintech industry, although he enjoys an intensive debate on the future of banking.
podział (np. w zespole), czynnik mogący spowodować rozłam
faultline
The country’s faultlines are familiar for Europe.
to pull the plug
odciąć fundusze, zaprzestać finansowania
The strange nature of the recession may mean PE managers are unwilling to pull the plug as activity is likely to resume after the shutdown.
robić coś szybko (i niedokładnie)
to bang out
Meanwhile, Netflix will try to entrench its global lead, not least by banging out more international smash hits like Money Heist. When El Profesor declares, prophetically, We are the Resistance, he could be channelling Mr Hastings.
stature
renoma, pozycja (społeczna), ranga
China’s stature is growing along with its contributions—it now pays 12% of the un budget compared with 1% in 2000.
to dilute
rozcieńczać
China’s economy is simply too large and too well integrated into global trade networks. Chinese exports end up elsewhere, diluting tariffs’ impact.
to dispatch
wysyłać
Even in its early, dvd-dispatching days Netflix won its subscribers’ hearts and minds—and so their wallets—with plentiful content and great customer service.
multi-faceted
złożony, o wielu aspektach
Former officials, analysts and investors warn that risks appear to have migrated from the banks into a sprawling, multi-faceted investment industry which has grown tremendously over the past decade, partly by stepping into the void left by banks.
poważny (np. o problemie)
acute
But it showed with devastating clarity how tech firms struggle to bridge the digital chasm between China and America. This poses an acute business risk for Zoom.
podwędzić, zakosić, rąbnąć, buchnąć
to pinch
Anti-Amazon feeling grew stronger in April, after the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon employees used data on third-party sellers to pinch ideas for the private-label business.
determinacja
resolve
CSIS also found that signaling U.S. resolve to absorb and offset the cost of a prolonged economic conflict was critical.
analiza (celem ustalenia skutków niepowodzenia), badanie powypadkowe; sekcja zwłok
post mortem
The post mortem revealed a circular, self-reinforcing problem. The system had been trained on the CVs of previous successful applicants to the firm.
idiot savant
genialny głupiec
The result is an artificial idiot savant that can excel at well-bounded tasks, but can get things very wrong if faced with unexpected input.
fatalista, osoba przewidująca katastrofy
doom-monger
Existential worries about clever computers making radiologists or lorry drivers obsolete—let alone, as some doom-mongers suggest, posing a threat to humanity’s survival—seem overblown.
to sunder
rozdzielać na kawałki
Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic senator and scourge of big tech, has proposed sundering Amazon’s private-label business—which produces goods for sale on the site—from that of third-party sellers on its platform.
błędne przekonanie, błędne rozumowanie; błąd logiczny
fallacy
It is true that there is not enough money created to include the interest, but it is a fallacy that the only way to pay it back is to borrow still more.
wypowiedź
utterance
With the knowledge that money in America is based on debt, it should not come as a surprise to learn that the Federal Reserve System is not the least interested in seeing a reduction in debt in this country, regardless of public utterances to the contrary.
mieć całkowitą kontrolę nad czymś, zdawać sobie z czegoś sprawę, być na bieżąco z czymś
to stay on top of something
Yet the majority of Storonsky’s critics are more concerned that Revolut has simply grown too fast to stay on top of the complexity of running a global financial services platform.
spełniający wymagania; odpowiedni
eligible
This past week, he became eligible for the first of 12 tranches of the stock options because Tesla’s market value had remained above $100 billion for a specified amount of time.
quite a few
sporo; niemało
You’re going to have winners and losers, and quite a few losers, says Aurelie L’Hostis, fintech analyst at Forrester Research.
to be here to stay
zostać na zawsze; zadomowić się na dobre
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago adds: Debt—public and private—is here to stay. It plays an essential role in economic processes. What is required is not the abolition of debt, but its prudent use and intelligent management.
umiejętność rządzenia krajem
statecraft
Is it even possible to effectively influence such a dominant trading power through economic statecraft?
to kill off something
wybić coś, wytłuc coś, wytępić coś
Their debt-laden parents may be forced once more to license shows to Netflix. Disney, its most formidable nemesis, will lack the financial muscle to kill it off completely.
zawiedziony, zniechęcony, niewzruszony
underwhelmed
But new phone features— like Wind Down Mode to help you get to sleep on time, and a watch that scolds you if you don’t wash your hands long enough—leave me underwhelmed.
to extinguish
zniszczyć; ugasić
Since this amount is classified as interest, it is not extinguished as is the larger portion which is a return of the loan itself.
docile
uległy
Unlike Christianity, Islam is not docile to Logos, nor for that matter is Islam’s God; God’s will is arbitrary, inscrutable.
skłonność
propensity
Behind the scenes, and unbeknownst to most Americans, data brokers have developed algorithmic scores for each one of us—scores that rate us on reliability, propensity to repay loans, and likelihood to commit a crime.
interchangeable
wymienny; zamienny
With the exception of JPMorgan, which is inextricably linked to Jamie Dimon, its charismatic and long-serving chief executive, most lenders style themselves as institutions in which high-ranking executives are interchangeable cogs in a larger machine.
pozbyć się (nieform)
to unload
In emails Thursday, he told The Wall Street Journal that he also plans to unload four other houses in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air.
zmuszać
to impel
If they hesitate, they will risk a great unravelling—much like the nightmare in the 1920s and 1930s that first impelled the allies to create the unand its siblings.
ground zero
strefa zero
the point on the earth’s surface directly above or below an exploding nuclear bomba starting point or base for an activity
That is quite a run for a company that makes the bulk of its money selling gadgets produced in the global pandemic’s ground zero.
nie zostać zrozumianym lub zauważonym przez kogoś
to be lost on somebody
The risk of Amazon’s labour practices inviting more regulatory scrutiny—and, possibly worse, alienating brainboxes—is not lost on investors.
dominować
to bestride
No firm bestrides the physical and digital worlds in the way Amazon does.
ożywić
to exhilarate
Think instead of the bearded El Profesor and the other rogues who populate Money Heist, the streaming firm’s exhilarating Spanish-language crime drama about stealing €2.4bn ($2.6bn) from the national mint in Madrid.
w siódmym niebie
over the moon
Wall Street is so over the moon about Apple Inc.’s next iPhone that few seem to care when it will actually arrive.
dziedzina
domain
In medical diagnostics, for instance, amateur data-labellers can be trained to become almost as good as doctors at recognising things like fractures and tumours. But some amount of what AI researchers call domain expertise is vital.
rump of something
niedobitki czegoś
If the e-commerce rump were to inherit a hefty chunk of the company’s $59bn cash pile it might be able to keep spending—but not for long, at its recent rates.
osoba siejąca panikę
scaremonger
He said his family background was irrelevant, denied any suggestion Revolut was funded by the Kremlin and cautioned that scaremongering campaigns could deter foreign investment.
lowly
podrzędny, o niskim statusie i znaczeniu, mało znaczący
No investment banker worth his salt shows up with-out a spiral-bound pitch book put together by lowly associates pulling all-nighters, with strategy ideas and suggested transactions (investment bankers’ payday!) to solve the company’s future problems.
staggering
szokujący
If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought.
zaledwie
mere
Trends once expected to play out over a decade may unfold in mere quarters.
ciężar, obciążenie, przeszkoda (coś lub ktoś, kto nas powstrzymuje)
drag
AWS has the resources to defend its market-leading position. But in the cloud wars any handicap could cost it dearly. Its parent may be becoming one such drag.
puny
mizerny
As a result, returns excluding aws are puny and the pandemic is squeezing margins in e-commerce further.
general-purpose
uniwersalny
As Mr Pichai’s comparison with electricity and fire suggests, machine learning is a general-purpose technology—one capable of affecting entire economies.
to obviate
zażegnać
An aws spinoff, if it occurred, might obviate the need for drastic antitrust action.
unwary
nieostrożny
Even when data do exist, they can contain hidden assumptions that can trip the unwary.
to pertain to something
dotyczyć czegoś
Surveying the field of medical ai in 2019, Eric Topol, a cardiologist and AI enthusiast, wrote that the state of ai hype has far exceeded the state of AI science, especially when it pertains to validation and readiness for implementation in patient care.
stały klient; mecenas; sponsor
patron
Some bars and restaurants now run background checks on their patrons to see whether they’re likely to pay their tab or cause trouble.
ślęczeć nad czymś, studiować coś uważnie (np. mapę)
to pore over something
All this might appear to fit the script Mr Bezos has written over the years in his letters to shareholders, which are now pored over by investors as meticulously as those of Mr Buffett.
transient
krótkotrwały
Apple’s fortunes also give Washington politicians a good reason to think twice before escalating conflicts for transient political, rather than long-term strategic, gains.
slingshot
proca
Apple has become IBM, it’s become AT&T—a vertical giant waiting for a future David to come along with a horizontal slingshot.
tradycyjne metody
shoe leather
Contact tracing has been done with shoe leather and telephone calls.
w ogóle, absolutnie, zupełnie
whatsoever
The first fact that needs to be considered is that our money today has no gold or silver behind it whatsoever.
zadłużony
debt-laden
Their debt-laden parents may be forced once more to license shows to Netflix. Disney, its most formidable nemesis, will lack the financial muscle to kill it off completely.
przewaga liczebna, przewaga
preponderance
The problem may reflect a preponderance of white faces in their training data.
to trip
podstawić nogę; podciąć kogoś
Even when data do exist, they can contain hidden assumptions that can trip the unwary.
unremittingly
bezustannie
Letting go of aws would mark by far the most dramatic reorganisation in Amazon’s unremittingly accretive history.
drag
ciężar, obciążenie, przeszkoda (coś lub ktoś, kto nas powstrzymuje)
AWS has the resources to defend its market-leading position. But in the cloud wars any handicap could cost it dearly. Its parent may be becoming one such drag.
osboba uczęszczająca, osoba bywająca gdzieś
goer
After an hour of chat, the RevRally-goers in Dublin took their seats to hear presentations from company executives.
post mortem
analiza (celem ustalenia skutków niepowodzenia), badanie powypadkowe; sekcja zwłok
The post mortem revealed a circular, self-reinforcing problem. The system had been trained on the CVs of previous successful applicants to the firm.
lifeblood
fundament, siła napędowa
In theory, the world is awash with data, the lifeblood of modern AI.
to pounce
rzucić się na kogoś
For years PE barons have boasted of their huge piles of dry powder, which, if spent in a downturn, might generate outsized returns. Now it is time to pounce.
namiastka; byle co; gorsza opcja
second-best
Sometimes, however, the world must work without America even if that is second-best.
to stir up
powodować (problemy), prowokować coś
Not only did that provoke a backlash abroad, exploited by Russia and China, but it also stirred up resentment at home.
mere
zaledwie
Trends once expected to play out over a decade may unfold in mere quarters.
fałszerstwo
adulteration
The marriage of Hebrew scripture and Greek philosophy that begat Christianity and subsequently Europe is not mere coincidence, nor is Greek philosophy some adulteration of an otherwise pure Gospel.
defamation
zniesławienie
Last year, Mr. Musk’s ability to access cash came up again during a defamation lawsuit over comments he made about a man involved in the rescue of a Thai soccer team from a flooded cave in 2018. A lawyer in the case said in a filing that Mr. Musk had described himself as financially illiquid.
inference
wniosek
Humans can try to forbid such inferences, says Fabrice Ciais, who runs pwc’s machine-learning team in Britain (and Amazon tried to do exactly that).
fizzle
fiasko, plajta
That early optimism had fizzled by the 1970s.
furlough
bezpłatny urlop
The company entered the crisis in a more secure position than most of its peers, some of which have already had to sack or furlough hundreds of staff.
od A do Z
from soup to nuts
IBM was a vertical giant and did everything from soup to nuts: chips, hardware, operating system, software, applications, services.
brainbox
tęga głowa
The risk of Amazon’s labour practices inviting more regulatory scrutiny—and, possibly worse, alienating brainboxes—is not lost on investors.
jak coś jest od wszystkiego, to jest od niczego
jack of all trades, master of none
And Amazon’s role as a digital jack-of-all-trades creates conflicts of interest.
propensity
skłonność
Behind the scenes, and unbeknownst to most Americans, data brokers have developed algorithmic scores for each one of us—scores that rate us on reliability, propensity to repay loans, and likelihood to commit a crime.
gridlock
zator
One threat is antagonism between America and China, which could create gridlock in global bodies, exacerbated by competing parallel financial and security arrangements.
turnout
frekwencja
The quarter-century-record turnout and the knife-edge result it produced gave evidence to how deeply political and cultural polarization is now felt in Poland.
mint
tu: mennica
Think instead of the bearded El Profesor and the other rogues who populate Money Heist, the streaming firm’s exhilarating Spanish-language crime drama about stealing €2.4bn ($2.6bn) from the national mint in Madrid.
patron
stały klient; mecenas; sponsor
Some bars and restaurants now run background checks on their patrons to see whether they’re likely to pay their tab or cause trouble.
sobotwór; wierna kopia
lookalike
If you create a stockmarket clone of Amazon lookalikes, including Shopify, Netflix and ups, it has outperformed Amazon this year.
działać zgodnie z czymś, zastosować się do czegoś (np. do rady), uwzględnić coś
to act on
In those cases, too, Deutsche Bank failed to act on clear red flags, which resulted in those banks being able to transfer funds, including to the U.S.
niewielki
meagre
Zoom’s relationship with China is complex. The American company has meagre sales on the mainland.
flight
ucieczka
And courts regularly rely on algorithms to determine a defendant’s flight risk, recidivism risk, and more.
superior
lepszy, ponadprzeciętny, o wysokiej jakości
The AWS cloud is considered superior to the others in terms of reliability and speed.
strefa zero
ground zero
the point on the earth’s surface directly above or below an exploding nuclear bomba starting point or base for an activity
That is quite a run for a company that makes the bulk of its money selling gadgets produced in the global pandemic’s ground zero.
contentious
kontrowersyjny; kłótliwy
Before Tesla went public, Mr. Musk told a judge during a contentious divorce with his first wife that he had run out of cash and had taken on emergency loans from friends to support his family and pay living expenses.
stanąć na nogi (po problemach)
to get back on one’s feet
Disney is likely to be the first of the covid-stricken media titans to get back on its feet when lockdowns end. But right now it is ailing.
in concert with somebody
wspólnie z kimś
Two simulated future trade-war games conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in early 2019 found that some of the most effective bargaining strategies with China involved threats to cut off technology exports—especially in concert with allies.
to impel
zmuszać
If they hesitate, they will risk a great unravelling—much like the nightmare in the 1920s and 1930s that first impelled the allies to create the unand its siblings.
blichtr; balanga
razzle-dazzle
But lockdown restrictions mean it must forgo the razzle-dazzle reunion of “Friends” cast members.
ucieczka
flight
And courts regularly rely on algorithms to determine a defendant’s flight risk, recidivism risk, and more.
to be oblivious to something
nie zważać na coś
Machine learning is full of examples of Mr Knuth’s dictum, in which machines have followed the letter of the law precisely, while being oblivious to its spirit.
to fall from grace
wypaść z łask, popaść w niełaskę
Wirecard’s fall from grace.
tu: wystarczająco duży
ample
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve.
krytykować
to censure
The UN is bureaucratic and infuriating. Its agencies fall prey to showboating and hypocrisy, as when despots on its Human Rights Council censure Israel yet again.
określenie ilości lub liczby osób
strong
BA has announced plans to cut up to 30 per cent of its 42,000-strong workforce, while Ryanair is looking at axing 15 per cent.
to do one’s part
zrobić, co do kogoś należy, zrobić swoje
Books have been written, reports published and scattered abroad, statistics skillfully set forth for the purpose of showing that the Jew does his part for the country in which he resides; and yet the fact remains that in spite of these most zealous and highly sponsored campaigns, the opposite assertion is stronger and lives longer.
doom-monger
fatalista, osoba przewidująca katastrofy
Existential worries about clever computers making radiologists or lorry drivers obsolete—let alone, as some doom-mongers suggest, posing a threat to humanity’s survival—seem overblown.
conflate
łączyć
People seem to conflate spending with creating money in successful businesses, he said: In recent years, billionaire has become… a pejorative, like that’s a bad thing, which I don’t think makes a lot of sense in most cases.
implement
narzędzie, przyrząd
ln spite of all the broken implements of war that had piled up in its courtyard, there were still vines growing around the doors and windows in the stucco façade of a building that was typically European, typically French.
die-hard
zagorzały
But since its launch in 2015, Revolut has managed to build a small army of die-hard fans among its 12 million customers.
stawka akordowa
piece rate
Mechanical Turk, another subdivision of Amazon, connects firms with an army of casual human workers who are paid a piece rate to perform repetitive tasks.
utrzymać przewagę
to hold the advantage
2015 analysis of a theoretical Taiwan conflict by think tank Rand Corp. found that while the U.S. still holds the advantage, the balance of power has shifted rapidly.
bezpłatny urlop
furlough
The company entered the crisis in a more secure position than most of its peers, some of which have already had to sack or furlough hundreds of staff.
