Japan had a similar policy, with respect to legal immigrants it had made a point of recruiting, in the immediate wake of the global financial crisis. They'd buy (largely) Peruvian/Brazilian factory workers of Japanese descent a plane ticket and approximately $3k of compensation (IIRC) in return for them surrendering their work-compatible visa.
After reading this article, it's crazy to see how the attitude has shifted, and number of immigrants exploded in recent years. I just spent the past 2 weeks in Japan and was surprised by the sheer amount foreign workers. I remember almost a decade ago until COVID, whenever I visited my wife's hometown in very rural Fukuoka, a Russian woman married to a Japanese woman and myself were literally the only foreigners in the town. When I went there 2 weeks ago, I saw several foreign workers at a 7-eleven.
Depends on the country and weight class of the financial institution, but among e.g. U.S. money center banks, branch bankers have been successively de-skilled for the last ~3.5 decades or so.
It is still nominally a white collar occupation but has, indeed, suffered in terms of prestige, compensation, and socioeconomic makeup of workforce versus other middle class mainstays, against a backdrop where the upper edge of the middle class is doing exceptionally well for itself.
Citation available if I Google for the academic papers but the handwavy version is “I write about this sort of thing for a living so uh self-cite for the moment.”
With the limited roll out, it wouldn't take much capacity for individual sites to schedule their available doses.
You'd think so, right. You'd think that the state of California was certainly able to successfully inject more than 25% of doses delivered in January 2021, right. You'd think that simply calling around for places that had nobody coming in could not possibly work, right.
A thing that continues to blow the minds of many: there is literally no one whose job it is to generate demand for most doses at most locations which were allocated doses. This was entirely on a pull model. If there was no pull, then they would have sat in the freezer until discarded.
This didn't just strand doses in the freezer at places like Rural Clinic For Low-Income Farm Workers Who Accidentally Got A Supersized Allocation Due To Political Considerations. It stranded doses in the freezer at e.g. the third largest pharmacy chain in most well-populated cities because people called the first largest, heard a No, and then assumed "Well if they don't have it clearly no one has it."
Bureaucracies don't punish people for mistakes. People get punished for non-compliance.
It is a bit remarkable that nobody in California will take either a career or political hit for instituting a policy of redlining [0] in the provision of medical care, in the clear light of day, despite that being very obviously illegal, but that we actually literally prosecuted people for end-of-day shots. It calls to mind that mind that Joker quote: "Nobody panics if everything is going according to plan, even if the plan is horrifying."
The health equity experts and medical ethicists were enthusiastically onboard with redlining. And so we redlined.
[0] Access to medical care early was conditioned on living in the correct zip code, and there was a list of priority zip codes adopted by the state as a result of a coalition of county health offices pooling their resources to create that authoritative list. That list was designed, and I am using that word very deliberately, to proxy for race of residents of those zip codes.
A commanding percentage of all citations of me on e.g. Twitter will apologize to the user's own audience for the age of the piece, in a way which is obviously suboptimal.
I have updated my opinion accordingly: I agree that in the case of actually timeless content, hiding the date benefits both the reader (who would otherwise discount the information) and the author (whose work would otherwise be perceived as less valuable than it actually is).
It doesn't matter if Marcus Aurelius wrote his Mediations in the 160s or 170s (or the 1700s for that matter) as they truly are timeless!
However, I've run into articles that were very much not timeless, e.g. technical tutorials which were hopelessly out of date, with no indication that this was the case (since they hid the date). In such cases, hiding the date benefits neither reader nor author.
Presumably you did not mean that date-hiding should be implemented universally. I'm just sharing those experiences, which led me to associate missing dates in articles with confusion and frustration -- since those are the only ones that elicited a strong response: when I needed it, and when it wasn't there! The cases when the date didn't matter, but was there, left no lasting impression.
I'm glad your proposed solution was "Spend a few hours monkeying around in Jekyll to make dates radically less prominent [and] somehow alter the URL structure to take them out of URLs" — my conscience is repulsed by the thought of removing the date information entirely. It should be there for people who are actively seeking it out.
De gustibus non est disputandum; there are some things that ruin many people's lives that have no appeal to me, there are some things many people enjoy responsibly that I have learned to stop myself from using because I will not make good decisions over a period of years, and then there was that freaking cat song, which gave me the strongest "WARNING: Your brain is not in control of your response to this song, in a way which is qualitatively different than the usual ways music is moving." when listening to it that I found it remarkable.
> I think if you say the words “my cat” to me when I am on my deathbed I will immediately hum three notes.
The song is currently ruining my life in a very different sense: I keep listening to the song over and over to try to guess which three notes you're talking about, but I can't for the life of me figure it out. Mind clearing that up for me?
(Personally, I definitely see how the song could be perceived as infectiously catchy, but it doesn't seem to do it for me. I think the structure and rhythm are a little too irregular for it to get stuck in my head.)
Back in the mid-1990s, I remember a news fluff piece about a woman who claimed to have epileptic seizures in response to hearing Mary Hart's voice (some newstainment journalist/anchor, maybe Entertainment Tonight?). Doctor supposedly confirmed it via experiment (though, now I wonder if the man should've kept his license, seems unsafe).
Earworms are probably the same. Specific either to unique brains, or to particular brain neuro-templates.
I had stopped watching Seinfeld beyond the first season. Had no idea.
Shit, do I always sound like a fool because I am a fool, or just because everything I know has been turned into a sitcom joke that I never found out about?
Good news on this specific issue: the current year will be both the final year of the old era and the 元年 (first year) of the new one. The following calendar year is the 2nd of the new era. So in most cases you have a window of time to get ready to update systems to accommodate e.g. Japanese counterparties whose systems want you to specify dates of birth using eras in preference to the Western calendar.
One of the relatively few bits of ultimately consequential engineering I did in the last few years was assisting a colleague in grepping for comments we had both left identifying code to update in the event of a new era. (We are currently, of course, in Reiwa 6, and Heisei ended in what most HNers consider 2019.)
It was controversial, from a number of angles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/global/23immigra...