That only means you're in the place with a lot virus flowing around, nothing else. Vaccine stimulate your immune system to lower the chance to get infected, and even if infected much lower chance to get severely damaged.
I’m not sure your explanation is sound. Studies have shown doctors/nurses get sick (pre-Covid) at more or less the same rate as the rest of the population, despite increased exposure to circulating colds and flus. Explanations ranged from “they get vaccinated more” to “background exposure to very low payloads primes the immune system and keeps them healthier.”
I hate to put it in these terms, but do you have credible peer reviewed literature on this claim? What you're saying is exactly what state media & state authorities started espousing after everyone realized the vaccine didn't offer the protection everyone had assumed and been promised. I'm wondering if there is any actual evidence for their claims or if it's just saving face and moving goal posts.
I think it's about expectation. If everyone expected worse, and have restored confidence now that future would be better and ready to spend and plan growth, then the economy would start to recover/expand.
A lot of discussion of 1984 here in US. The truth is most of the people here have no idea of what 1984 looks like, unless they've lived in China for more than 5 years. That's the combination of money, power and brain power to lock the intelligence and wash the brains.
I'd argue it was a golden era for you as that's the best time of you to play game. My kids would say 2020 is the golden era of game as they started to enjoy minecraft and roblox now.
I played a lot of games as a teenager in the mid 2000s, and they kind of sucked. The graphics aged terribly compared to something like SNES or N64 games and the game play wasn't that great. 2010-2020 has undoubtedly been the golden age of gaming, thanks to Steam mostly. Without physical discs, lower indie price point games could be sold and still turn a profit.
From a quality and diversity standpoint, the last ten years have seen the best games ever made, a lot of them indies.
Well, maybe that's also a relieving result that use of tablet is not causing harm at this area, if not helped. Which I believed strongly as long as the material is carefully curated for education not just youtube Kids. Even science channel video is better than youtube kids.
Cannot believe the president has the power without legal battle to ban business activity. If it's national security, let out the cat. Otherwise how could people believe if this won't happen to SAP, Volkswagon, Sony next time.
It's not clear that he actually has this power. He's known to misstate things.
Also, according to the Supreme Court, SAP, Volkswagen, and Sony are entitled to due process under our Constitution. Courts make a distinction between (1) public or privately-owned enterprises, (2) state-owned enterprises that function independently of the state, and (3) state-owned enterprises that function as the alter ego of the foreign state.
Companies in the first two categories are entitled to due process under the U.S. Constitution. When it comes to China, there is a blurry line between companies and the CCP, so it's not clear where they fall here.
There really is no guarantee these things won’t happen to those companies - just like how there is no guarantee that CCP won’t have HKers or Uighurs or Tibet. You just have to be mindful of the authority of nations and hope you don’t get unlucky.
This one of the better/saner things this administration has done, if anything, these should have been accelerated to avoid another USSR style Cold War with China.
There actually is a guarantee by the Supreme Court that SAP, Volkswagen, and Sony are entitled to due process, because they are independent entities that don't operate as extensions of a foreign government.
The same is might be true of ByteDance as well. It's not actually clear that Trump has the authority to ban TikTok. It could just be more bluster.
If your legitimate business activity undermines public health it is no longer legitimate until the threat has passed. We fought this out in 1918 as well.
Can your business take precautions to prevent the spread of an active pandemic? Good you get to stay open. Can your business take precautions, but isn't? You get to close. Does the nature of your business make it impossible to function with social distancing/masks? You get to close.
That's how it's been done in my state, and we've done very well compared to the rest of the nation. If we (nationwide) had actually shut down in the beginning instead of half-assing it we wouldn't be where we are now.
While that’s true, there’s another aspect that’s more lucrative: Number of direct reports and actual power. Even for technical/research position, you’ll get hundreds of people reporting below you if the compensation is really $1M (500k even honestly). The career ceiling which is common in the west doesn’t really exist. Many talented people I know choose to leave for that reason, because their position is much much higher(e.g one former senior engineer in google becomes “director of Recommendation group” with hundreds direct report in one of BAT)
Well there’s a director in most research institute right? In FAIR/MSR they also have science managers which are top researchers themselves. At some point it’s more lucrative to have fellow researchers and supporting engineers and access to more resources. While it might not be that appealing to some people, it indeed attracted many others.
People always talk about how much they hate corporate ladders, but honestly most will happily accept a new position with a shinny title
I don't think Mathematicians themselves didn't like this idea. In fact Hilbert tried it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_program) one hundred years ago and it failed and proved to be not possible. Well maybe the Hilbert program is too aggressive, and this Lean thing is much moderate. But at the end of the day, the boundary of what program solver could do is bounded already hence no one is paying too much attention.
Chinese society is less likely to expand and conquer nearby ground in the way that the mainstream culture of those territory isn't Chinese dominantly. There's also a strong isolationism deeply rooted in Chinese culture that "it's the central kingdom with the best land and smartest people and why bother go after those barbaric clans and poor lands." kinda thinking.
Han Chinese immigration means that the native populations of Tibet and Xinjiang are becoming minorities in their own lands. So I don't think you are correct.
