iirc online identity used to be tied to your public key signature ? Might be too technical for most population to use, but the ideal solution is already there I think ?
The saving habits was mainly of the post-WW2 generations that have to follow a prudent life style to survive. Highly doubt that Confucius has anything to do with this.
For others, there's possibly quite a large room for cherry-picking data. I'm very happy if the following can be proved to be negligible ( or wrong ):
>Extreme poverty falling
I'm not sure how the math ($1) can already be an adjusted for inflation / price variances. Probably should be using the income / wealth equality instead.
>People in developed countries have more leisure time
But not in developing countries. Following the links, I find our working levels stay pretty much the same above the 2000h line. Also I'm interested in how much we compare to pre-industrial level.
>Smoking is down, but not so much in developing countries
>Homicide rates have fallen dramatically, but only counting US and EU
>The share of income spent on food has plummeted in the US
No mention of developing countries. World-wide the homicide rates looks to be about the same-ish ?.
>People have been getting taller for centuries
There are more to nutrition than height, and world-wide looks like it has been same-ish since 1970.
>More people in the world live in a democracy now
50/50 on this one, mainly cause I'm not sure if the democracy index is measured objectively, or they just extend to whatever countries on good terms with the US.
>Tech & Moore's law
I'm skeptic of more tech leads == better life, particularly when more people reported more internet time ~= decreased mental health.
Well this would not do the shattering-ago amount of damage but after repeated exposure I would probably get burnt out and quit.
Here is an anecdotal analogy: Friends repeatedly call me Internet Explorer every time I share any Tech article that is > 2 weeks old. After a month I just stop reading tech news altogether.
Are they joking ? Yes. It is serious ? No, but it just kills all the fun.
Well this would not do the shattering-ago amount of damage but after repeated exposure I would probably get burnt out and quit.
Here is an anecdotal analogy: Friends repeatedly call me Internet Explorer every time I share any Tech article that is > 2 weeks old. After a month I just stop reading tech news altogether.
Are they joking ? Yes. It is serious ? No, but it just kills all the fun.
It is less secure than your standard symmetric encryption. I guess they would use deterministic encryption in which 2 entries with same email address will have the same record string ( this leaks information to attacker ). Prefix search & sort can be achieved by using order preserving encryption. Not really sure about sub-string though.
Mandated paternity leaves is to provide an equal part contributions towards children for both the mother and the father. Otherwise the mother take most of the hit ( as evidence in countries without it ).
I notice there seems to be a "No true Scottman" issue here where the critics is stating one problem and the proponent is like "yeah but what if we change it to this". I'm guessing the process at your place is much more tolerable than what people have been complaining.
I wonder at what point does it stop being "whiteboard interview" and just a "few sprinkle of algorithmic questions to test logical skill".
Also when the talents pool is large enough, obviously you can do as many brutal questions as you can and still fill the headcounts with good developers. So I think saying "but it still works" is not very productive.
The chemical industry have has a much more lengthy history of bad chemicals: PFOA, asbestos, leaded gas, HCFCs... how can we be sure that plastic is not one of these ?