Because it may cause significant failures in pipeline, and these failures are usually low-probability, high-consequence events.

因为它可能会导致管道显著故障，而这些故障通常是低概率，高后果的事件。

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It also supports complex event processing in which a series of events may be observed to produce one event as a consequence of the relationships in the series.

它还支持复杂事件处理(在复杂事件处理中，可能会观测到一系列事件)，以产生一个事件作为该系列中的关系的结果。

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It is a strange consequence of the special theory of relativity, and applies to any events that happen that are separated by some distance.

这是奇特相对论的奇怪推论，对于不是发生在同一地方的任何事件都适用。

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Jackson had the wisdom to look at low-probability but high-consequence events that could rock his business.

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The question of how to prepare for low-probability, high-consequence events is one of the most difficult in government and business.

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From an investor's perspective, the idea of planning for low-probability, high-consequence events is well treated in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

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