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@euro writes (vital thread) to warn us that

1/ EU regulations are not perfect but are not ā€˜red tapeā€™ either. They improve the quality of our everyday lives by protecting our rights as #workers and #consumers, our #environment and #wildlife and the quality of the #food we eat.
Please, read on 2/ to get more detail on the #REUL Bill (Retained EU Law)
I personally experienced that EU decisions were all scrutinised by UK Parliamentary Committees before they became law! kentbylines.co.uk/balance-of-comā€¦
2/ These EU laws were created with the support of the governments of all the political parties when the UK was in the EU.
EU laws ā€“ that the Government now wants to dismantle ā€“ protect us in the workplace. They guarantee our paid holidays, reduce the gender pay gap and protect
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šŸ§µ "#Criticality: A Balance Between #Robustness and #Adaptability"

Today's SFI Seminar by @cgershen @cgg_mx:
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Regarding systems at the #EdgeOfChaos
Identifying #PhaseTransition dynamics
Citing @WagnerEvolution on #Robustness
Contrasting it with #Chaos (fragile, hard to predict, etc.)
And then #Criticality, somewhere in the middle... ImageImageImageImage
With #criticality, due to #PowerLaw(-like) distributions:

"Most of the changes will be small, but for some, you can have large changes."

See also #fractals

Key history point: Stuart Kauffman's #random #Boolean #networks (1969!)

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#equalpayday today. Full time working women in Australia earn 14% less than full time working men.
Thereā€™s a lot we can do about the #genderpaygap. Hereā€™s a start. 1. Better value the work done in highly feminised occupations. Workers in the health and care professions perform enormously skilled and economically important work. They are underpaid. #paythemmore 1/
2. Organisation leaders should undertake a gender pay #audit to diagnose #genderpaygap drivers. @wgea has great resources for this. Because this is such a pervasive problem, there will be issues, be open to that and #actonthedata 2/
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@henryfarrell & @ANewman_forward make the case that "not all firms suppliers, or countries are equally risky and that it may be better to build in #redundancy for possible bottlenecks than to cut them away entirely." They also refer to the following papers
foreignaffairs.com/articles/chinaā€¦
@helper_susan presents the idea of "total value contribution" encouraging "#supplychain managers to first consider how decisions affect #value #drivers, bevore they even consider costs."
supplychaindive.com/news/coronavirā€¦
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