It is also a difference in culture, americans tends to praise themselfs for every small things as a big achievement. In other countries one would not even consider this as an achievement, just a standard iteration to explore.
For me as well the first content is strange, that "I've invented subscription".
It is basically just applying an existing pattern from not-so-much-different other field?
indeed amazon prime is the same, gym subscription is the same etc etc. Not sure what justifies the "no one ever done it"
Honestly I've never liked americans because of arrogance and the way of dealing with things, but the Communist-China really unites all democracy as it is a nightmare utopia.
Can't imagine anybody reasonable wants to give more power/influence to a country that destroys all differences (in minorities), killing the languages, traditions, old structures everything traditional. There is even less value there than in US, money is the god, and who is a cheater is the smart. The rule is by force.
Did you see that the government hired thugs to beat up it's own people in HK?
(and after used the police directly to do this?) It's said if a small irrelevant country is doing this, but if this becomes the standard of a global power, well I don't want to be nearby.
It is absolutely scientifically ok to reject GMO, since they decrease variety and after x years of abundance in a year a superbug can destroy it all.
In case of GMO it is a play with the unknown (health, stability), it is a risk against a somewhat cheaper food.
In case of vaccine it is still a play with unknown, but there the risk is against another risk not just money. If the virus would be less deadly much less people would have taken it. And the other way around as well, would be more deadly people would queue up instantly.
It is not as black and white as you describe. stupid vs smart people as you say it.
And by the way, this is called common smartness. Everybody is susceptible for different thing everybody is resistant to different things so the whole word is hard to take on.
it was the same with GWT (google-web-toolkit) it looked nice and many jumped to the bandwagon. But when something didn't work as expected you had to know a lot about debugging javascript (the internal work of javascript) and guess about the generation logic from java and think backwards. After all, you had to know more (then simply js) for debugging! And of course if your boss wanted something custom..
That is a huge-huge difference if they do it secretly, or if they do it announced.
If they get caught doing secretly this in China that would be a big blow. But if they are doing openly and it is known that the government provides the hash, they can wash their hands.
Not sure why you are so aggressive.
If you have worked for any reasonably big company you know that the official language does not necessarily matches the truth (and sometimes has 0 relation). I did not say any conspiracy, but even on the link you have attached Brendan says that you should look up the meaning of 'constructive dismissal' if I recall, that means the view you want to force on others is half truth at best.
Edit of the previous comment:
"which does not *necesarily* relate to the real reason of the separation"
.. ok this word was left out
That is not quite true, DonHopkins only quote about the technical details of the separation, which does not relate to the real reason of the separation. But it is telling what lead to it.
But genetically-modified food could be. By living in the US I'm not sure how OP can avoid it, as it is not labeled. So there you go with a long term exposure with unknown effect.
I hope people who don't take vaccine also ignore bio-engineered food. Wait it's not labeled in the US.
So much about being scared of long term effect...
Or you could require it in the tender. Once they quote 25% overall cost compared to others, you can ask them to implement such a system for 25% more and come back later.
it can be a minimal requirement, more so if it is such a sensitive system.