In futurology, a singleton is a hypothetical world order in which there is a single decision-making agency at the highest level, capable of exerting effective control over its domain, and permanently preventing both internal and external threats to its supremacy. The term was first defined by Nick Bostrom. (Wikipedia).
Global Governance Series: Migration as a Global Challenge
Discussion with Ambassador Masud Bin Momen, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN, Ambassador Omar Hilale, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the UN, Ambassador Michal Mlynár, Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the UN, and Ambassador Archbishop Bernardito
From playlist The MacMillan Center
Global Governance Series: UN for Human Rights Protection
Discussion with Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations and the Chair of the Third Committee responsible for a range of social, humanitarian affairs and human rights issues. The talk was moderated by Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, Senior Fellow &
From playlist The MacMillan Center
OHM2013: One Network. One World. Designing for a 7+ billion person world.
For more information visit: http://bit.ly/OHM13_web To download the video visit: http://bit.ly/OHM13_down Playlist OHM 2013: http://bit.ly/OHM13_pl Speaker: Vinay Gupta Within 10 years, the villages and slums of the world are going to join the internet, unleashing revolutions in educatio
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UN Ambassadors' Roundtable: Regional Organizations in Global Governance
UN Ambassadors for Latin America/Caribbean States and European Union to discuss regional organizations in global governance Ambassador Juan Carlos Mendoza-García, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations (for the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States) and Ambass
From playlist The MacMillan Center
Amine Belaicha, Yale World Fellow and General Manager at Numid-Invest International, explains the unique opportunity citizens have to shape their environments. This video is part of the Yale Global Perspectives series. To learn more about this series visit http://world.yale.edu.
From playlist Global Perspectives
RubyConf 2018 - The Case of the Missing Method — A Ruby Mystery Story by Nadia Odunayo
RubyConf 2018 - The Case of the Missing Method — A Ruby Mystery Story by Nadia Odunayo Business is slow for Ruby Private Investigator, Deirdre Bug. She’s on the verge of switching industry when she gets a call from an anxious young man. "Some class methods have gone missing," he tells her
From playlist RubyConf 2018
Infusing values into the global system
Tony Blair responds to a student's question as to whether we can simply add values to existing structures or whether structural change is necessary.
From playlist Faith and Globalization
Game Programming Patterns part 9.0 - (Reading) Singleton Pattern
We read through the Singleton chapter of the book. This chapter is all about not implementing singletons so we won't be implementing them in the games. Links code - https://github.com/brooks-builds/learning_game_design_patterns twitter - https://twitter.com/brooks_patton book - http://ga
From playlist Game Programming Patterns Book
RubyConf 2019 - The Singleton Module and Its Pattern In Ruby by Mike Calhoun
RubyConf 2019 - The Singleton Module and Its Pattern In Ruby by Mike Calhoun The singleton design pattern allows for the creation of an object that is restricted to one single instance. No matter how big or complex your application is, there will only ever be one. This has caused some con
From playlist RubyConf 2019
OHM2013: Digital Whistleblowing with GlobaLeaks
For more information visit: http://bit.ly/OHM13_web To download the video visit: http://bit.ly/OHM13_down Playlist OHM 2013: http://bit.ly/OHM13_pl Speakers: Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights We'll introduce Digital Whistleblowing, how it's effectively used and adap
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South Africa: How It Won Its Freedom and What It's Doing with It Now
Colin Coleman, a former anti-apartheid activist who is currently head of Goldman Sachs Sub Saharan Africa, gave a behind-the-scenes account of South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy. Sponsored by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Ya
From playlist The MacMillan Center
Gemma Mortensen, Executive Director of Crisis Action and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, discusses how governments are being held accountable for pressing domestic and international issues. This video is part of the Yale Global Perspective series. To watch more videos, visit http
From playlist Global Perspectives
Singleton Design Pattern - Beau teaches JavaScript
The Singleton Design pattern limits the number of instances of a particular object to just one. Find out how to implement this in JavaScript. Code 🔗 http://codepen.io/beaucarnes/pen/QpWvgP?editors=0012 Other resources on topic: 🔗 https://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns
From playlist Design Patterns - Beau teaches JavaScript
Marriage and Divorce Trends in China
Professor Davis's primary teaching and research interests are historical and comparative sociology, inequality and stratification, and contemporary Chinese society. She is a member of the national Committee on U.S. China relations and has just completed a six year term chairing of the soci
From playlist The MacMillan Report
RailsConf 2021: The Curious Case of the Bad Clone - Ufuk Kayserilioglu
On Sept 4th 2020, I got pinged on a revert PR to fix a 150% slowdown on the Shopify monolith. It was a two-line change reverting the addition of a Sorbet signature on a Shop method, implicating Sorbet as the suspect. That was the start of a journey that took me through a deeper understand
From playlist RailsConf 2021
The Real Kelly's Heroes - GIs Stole Huge Nazi Gold Stash
The true but unknown story of one of the greatest gold heists in history that occurred in US-occupied Germany in June 1945 - the real story of Kelly's Heroes! Main source: 'Nazi Gold' by Ian Sayer & Douglas Botting (1984) Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of
From playlist Daring Raids
RubyConf 2016 - My Meta Moments by John Dewyze
RubyConf 2016 - My Meta Moments by John Dewyze Meta-programming is alluring. To write code that writes more code sounds like the peak of efficiency, but learning it is filled with infinite loops and confusing stack traces. It is a place with lots of hair pulling and endless puts debugging
From playlist RubyConf 2016
The quantum measure (and how to measure it) by Rafael Sorkin
21 November 2016 to 10 December 2016 VENUE Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore Quantum Theory has passed all experimental tests, with impressive accuracy. It applies to light and matter from the smallest scales so far explored, up to the mesoscopic scale. It is also a necessary ingredie
From playlist Fundamental Problems of Quantum Physics
Game programming patterns part 18.1 - (Reading, JavaScript) Service Locator Pattern
We read through the Service Locator pattern of the Game Programming Patterns book Links code - https://github.com/brooks-builds/learning_game_design_patterns twitter - https://twitter.com/brooks_patton book - http://gameprogrammingpatterns.ocm/ rustacean station discord invite - https://
From playlist Game Programming Patterns Book
Global Employability Week | Business School | Global WIL and how to be a global employee 2020
Global Work Integrated Learning and how to be a global employee in a disrupted world
From playlist SACS Global Employability Week