the US has a recent history of extra-terrestrial law enforcement, both in ally countries (kim dotcom, meng wanzhou), and non-ally countries (bin laden). that's the main fear. w.r.t. the US, everybody is at risk, all the time.
if you don't do anything wrong, you won't get into trouble, and out of 8 billion people in the world, only a handful of people get in trouble. the problem is, the definition of trouble can change.
i really quite like the quality of vba code you can find in excel sheets in non-tech corporate environments, well, at least, the range of quality you find in there. there can be some incredible ones. code quality of matlab scripts and scientific code written by mathematicians and engineers can also be pretty eye opening.
when the only goal is a product that works, you get a lot of innovation and a lot of speed. when you don't have to worry about review, testing, and deployment, you strip out 80% of the overhead.
i heard the hedge fund renaissance technologies does not target hiring people with finance backgrounds. i wonder if you can build a tech company out of people who are just going to figure out javascript for the first time on their first day of work. when the performance hurdle is "learn something new on your own with minimal guidance", you immediately filter for a group of innovative people with initiative and drive.
emh doesn't mean everyone knows everything, it means the price accurately reflects available information. if an innovation was believed to be world changing, it would be worth a lot, if the belief changes, the price changes.
And there is one problem: "belief". Some people can walk through Xerox PARC and bet their company on 3-4 things they see. Others can own Xerox PARC and bet their company on 3-4 largely different things.
In EMH there is cooked in some notion of overall largely rational beliefs, and yet the shares trade hands from someone selling to someone buying - both of which feel they got a good deal worth making money from.
i mean, if you want to go all epistemological, sure, let me rephrase. each of us individual humans live in a specific world mapped on what we believe we know and our lived experience, and there is (at least) one unique world for each individual human. the price is a representative agent of a subset of the worlds that exist within the minds of the participants of the economy. as the mappings of reality upon the beliefs and experiences of the individual participants change, the price changes.
The economy is a faith-based construct. Prices aren't set by "information", but by faith in value - which is one of the easiest things in the world to lie about.
This is what Singapore does. Although the government provides substantial aid to new citizen families, the unspoken preference is for the immigration authority to shape national demographics by filtering the educational, racial and cultural intake. and by far the most prioritized group for immigration are malaysians of chinese descent with tertiary education. despite the sheer number of applicants from this group, the wait for citizenship is extremely short, some say as low as 3 months after application.
the straits chinese have the lowest fertility rate among all the major racial groups in singapore, and yet mysteriously the proportion has not changed in the last 10 years.
in my opinion i expect a vocational institute to teach the practical aspects of the industry, or at least be taught as part of OJT. And I believe many companies actually do provide a significant amount of OJT as part of their management traineeships or apprenticeships, and companies that take in employees earlier in their educational journey, such as pre-college apprenticeships, tend to focus on practical and technical knowledge more quickly.
at the college level, i don't really think these are meaningful questions to ask in order to test understanding. these feel like something you'd pick up after a week of working a trade financing desk in a industrial bank.
>“We kind of suspect that fatigue is one of the major factors that is driving this effect, because when you’re working on something for a long period of time, you get tired and then you start to lose your attention and your cognitive abilities are dropping,” Pei said.
The thing is, it’s unclear why that effect would make you give people lower grades. surely an equally reasonable guess is that less cognitive abilities could make you give higher grades because you don’t notice errors?
Sometimes you see the result is wrong so you do not give any points initially and then look on the steps and try to find something that looks correct to give at least some points. The willingness to track through every step diminishes with increasing fatigue.
It depends on what you are doing and how you are grading. I’d try to not take many points off if an error is somehow “really easy to make,” but that depends on my ability to evaluate the difficulty of mistakes.
Japan is not a high trust society. Japanese people are highly suspicious of other people, including Japanese. Japanese people are extremely concerned about how they are viewed and judged by others; the conformity is a desire to be accepted in society, and such trust and acceptance is not freely given but instead quickly taken away. Among my friends from Japan who have left the country, this is by far the most oppressive social more that they feel compelled to follow. And among those who have moved to Japan, many feel that learning the social rules and earning that trust was a significant accomplishment, and a handful want to preserve that exclusion because of how much effort it took to make themselves part of society.
Japanese social groups are extremely exclusive- on the broadest level, foreigners are excluded from some establishments, banking and housing services are sometimes inaccessible to foreigners. And on a smaller level, there are also establishments that do not accept new customers without an introduction, local or not. Such exclusions are an integral part of the culture - the language itself is a shibboleth, you know your place and standing in the world by the language other people use when they speak to you.
singapore gives generous subsidies to working adults with children who hire live-in helpers/nannies. the government spent a lot of money on subsidizing tertiary education and the last thing they need are adults dropping out of the workforce after earning a diploma or a degree.
many families hire a live-in helper, who is typically a low-income migrant worker from a neighbouring country. due to space constraints only the most privileged can hire two or more. as it is with asian tradition, parents primarily involve themselves in the area of discipline and education, and everything else is left to the nannies. the low-income families who cannot afford a helper or the living space for a helper suffer from a lack of enforcing discipline or providing for a growing child and low-income children often grow up maladjusted to the modern working society.
singapore unfortunately, still suffers from a low replacement rate, so the foreign domestic worker (FDW, as it is known) policy while enough to move the dial away from the danger zone that is south korea, is still not enough to ensure singapore is growing comfortably. however, at this point i don't believe allowing
(the FDW policy is generous and broad-based enough to extend to working adults with elderly, which means that subsidies for domestic help pretty much extend to working adults through a significant part of their working life. families often qualify for significant subsidies taking care of multiple generations through several decades.)
However, some of the spaces created for the legal live-in helpers [I've seen in Hong Kong and Singapore] would be considered substandard in the US. I'm talking closet size rooms with no windows big enough for a single bed and a few shelves.
If the US would allow this domestic help and possibly the same rooms, child care would be much easier.
the most obvious anecdata is that for some female endurance athletes, menstrual cycles delay or stop altogether. that's one of many things the body can turn off to reduce energy expenditure.
if you don't do anything wrong, you won't get into trouble, and out of 8 billion people in the world, only a handful of people get in trouble. the problem is, the definition of trouble can change.