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The British Empire also left Afghanistan. And the US also left Japan and South Korea.

It depends on which data points you pick.

Wouldn't it be great, though, if humans were no longer working warehouse jobs that strain their backs and their bladders?

When reading the article, I was surprised to not see the other studies mentioned alongside the strict survival results. In developed/industrialized countries, the number of years a child has an involved father predicts their future income, even after controlling for education level, total family income, etc. Of course, these are in environments where survival is not exactly a close call.

Edit to add: I don't know if the results were able to be replicated in non-WEIRD societies.

Fathers who are soldiers away on deployment who can only see their newborn over zoom also have the dip. But only if they've been closely tracking the pregnancy and birth. Apparently the dip is not observed in fathers who are deployed soldiers who are not involved/invested.

Excerpt from the article:

Jobs in health care, recreation and hospitality report the highest level of job openings, relative to employment. Many of these involve plenty of person-to-person contact, making their workers especially vulnerable to infection (a study from California earlier this year found that cooks were most at risk from dying of covid-19). By contrast, in industries where maintaining social distancing or being outside is often easier, labour shortages are less of an issue. The number of job openings per employee in the construction industry is lower today than it was before the pandemic.

I'm literate enough to read the entertainment section of a newspaper, and get a perfect score on the SAT 2 Chinese language test in the US. Technically, I wouldn't really be considered literate for an adult though.

When I came to the US at 4.5 years old, my mom brought with us some textbooks, enough for kindergarten through 3rd grade. I'm mostly self taught with help from my mom.

I more or less speak like an adult, but if I'm asked to read anything more complex (e.g., bank documents, geopolitics news), I'm completely lost.

Here's a video from Chinese TV in Feb before the landing that someone else posted in this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBhVaihkDvc

I realize it doesn't have English subtitles, so I'll summarize some highlights of what's in there:

* interviews with scientists and engineers working on the project

* trajectory of the spacecraft and lots of talk about the challenges of reducing velocity for landing

* historical overview and context for why Mars exploration is important for science

* what to expect in the future landing and when it'll happen

It's pretty similar to video programs that NASA produces. Not sure what information you're expecting that isn't out there, but I think you're attributing to secrecy what is more easily attributable to people not translating open public reports into English.

My dad sends me articles about it on WeChat all the time, but I have difficulty reading it since my Chinese reading comprehension is barely at a 3rd grade level. They do make a big deal about it and it gets lots of coverage.

Excerpt from the article:

These numbers dovetail with a number of studies showing a similar level of classification looking at whole brain data. By applying a multivariate analysis of the whole brain, researchers are now able to classify whether a brain is male or female with 77%-93% accuracy (see here, here, here, here, and here). In fact, some recent studies using the most sophisticated techniques have consistently found greater than 90% accuracy rates looking at whole brain data (see here, here, and here). While this level of prediction is definitely not perfect-- and by no means do those findings justify individual stereotyping or discrimination-- that's really high accuracy as far science goes [7].

What's really interesting to me is if it's feasible to conduct a large scale study on transgender people to see what their clustering is like, statistically, with respect to personality. And whether that changes before or after a medical treatment, such as taking hormones.

Just checked the link at least three times, and I don't see how this is related to the article.

Are you reading the same article or did you post this by accident?

That looks like a different person from the name in the article.

It's not any more or less dystopian than a plane pulling a Coors Light ad.

However, I've noticed the negativity around anything China related, and it just triggers memories of the kind of double standards my family was subjected to when growing up as a minority in the US.

It's the same pattern as British news coverage of the two princesses, whether we like it or not.

You'd have to take an action to view the advertisement, otherwise, it's just dots.

I kinda wish all other ads were like that, tbh.

My mom lives in Shanghai, and yes, that's how automated contact tracing works. You have to show that you're not in the "potentially exposed" category before potentially being a super spreader in a crowded place.

It makes me not worry about her safety from over here in Texas where, sadly, half the people walking out and about don't know how to wear a mask correctly.

Some cultures have normalized this (good hygiene and mask wearing when sick) since the 1917 pandemic.

I'm cautiously optimistic that it can take hold in the West this time around.

Sometimes, paying people well goes hand in hand with opportunities for growth. The "bamboo ceiling," which is similar to the "glass ceiling" is a source of frustration for some technical employees who find themselves stuck.

Diversity and inclusion programs at most companies tend to focus on every demographic bias except for the bamboo ceiling.

That's a very good example of using full stops in English for emphasis.

Maybe that's the root cause of the problem.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the definition of excess deaths means they're not literally counting every person who died, including from old age or car accidents, but theoretically attributable to a cause.

For example, researchers can measure excess deaths in 2020 compared to the previous year and find a gap between that and confirmed covid deaths in every country. For example, if the caretaker of a child or disabled or elderly person was suddenly hospitalized without time to find a substitute, and they didn't survive due to lack of care.

For real. When I hear "cows are like a member of the family" I think "oh, like cats and dogs are members of my family."

And if everyone around me had to adjust to a culture where dogs were treated like the dairy and veal and cattle industry? There would be an outcry.

Technically, there are more Latin speakers alive today than cumulatively during the Roman Empire. However, I think negligibly few are _native_ speakers.

Exponential population growth is weird.

My mom, who lives in Shanghai, orders 'nai pian' on taobao as one of her favorite snacks. Apparently it's yogurt chips (not yogurt balls) and it's very popular, and people generally think of it as being from Mongolia, but eat it like potato chips that happen to be keto.

I just ordered some from a few sources, and hopefully one of them is good. Found one on Amazon, one on Etsy, and one from Bonanza. They're supposed to have great shelf life, so I guess they are well suited for e-commerce.

I felt like if I made them and didn't like them, I wouldn't know it was me screwing up the recipe or not.

My coworker just told me it's her favorite. Apparently, if you like the flavor of kefir or salty lassi or parmesan chips or yogurt drops, you might also like these.

There are also "impossible" colors. There was an article on HN frontpage several weeks ago about it, I think.

Sounds like an opinion that exactly matches the mentality that the article describes. And in modern day too!

A bit of cultural context on "996" even though most of my cousins in China don't work in tech, the context is useful.

The mandated retirement age is 60 over there so most of my aunts and uncles who have grandkids are primary childcare providers for my cousins. Due to the one child policy from a generation ago, each baby today has 6 adult caretakers, 2 of whom work full time (sometimes "996"), 4 of whom are retired and take shifts on childcare, household tasks, or ordering delivery / grocery shopping. Some of my cousins have opted for a second child, which means 4 60-ish caretakers for 2 kiddos. It's not too bad when there's good communication and teamwork between the adults, even though several of my cousins actually have never changed a diaper and I have no idea how they'll manage when it's their turn to be a grandparent in 20-30 years time.

Excerpt from the article:

This is an important insight from this research: cutting out beef and dairy (by substituting chicken, eggs, fish or plant-based food) has a much larger impact than eliminating chicken or fish.

My intuition is that this harm reduction is surprisingly doable for most omnivores, because it doesn't require going full vegan. Or going on a harm reduction meal plan on, say, all weekdays would make 80% of the difference.

Also from the article, modern medicine:

"We have firearms, but we also have emergency services," he said. "It's easier to kill, but easier to save lives."

Relevant: egg laying mammals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme?wprov=sfla1