Two of the issues to which he has devoted the most attention since he arrived in the U.S. Senate, avian flu and nuclear nonproliferation, are grand global problems, which, while relatively uncontroversial, are nonetheless risky choices for signature issues, since, in both cases, success is invisible, and failure could mean disaster of world-changing proportions.
And crossing that invisible line, failure was no longer an option.
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Their goal is to make hardware failures invisible to applications.
They are the key factors to affect the transistor performance, but the implantation-related defect is invisible by the normal failure analysis method.
In such a scenario, economic downturns appear to be the result of coordination failure: The invisible hand fails to coordinate the usual, optimal, flow of production and consumption.
However, this finding is not universal (e.g., Neiworth et al. 2003), and it is unclear how to interpret failures in invisible displacement tasks (reviewed by Gomez 2005).
Effectively targeting de-radicalization efforts, or measuring the often-invisible successes or failures of hotlines and the wider outreach programs they contribute to, remains tricky at best.
This is the fatal legacy of 9/11, because with that slogan, failure has become invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
And today Ronald McKinnon laments, yes, laments the failure of the invisible bond vigilantes to show themselves — they're supposed to be "disciplining the government", so why aren't they here?
