In China any flights that take around an hour (around 700km of land distance) would probably be better traveled via HSR. Flights that around 2-3 hours long usually make more sense compare to HSR, although I know people who would prefer train as long as it is anywhere under 6 hours.
- Even the busiest security lines in a typical HSR station say during holidays would take 10 minutes tops. Regular weekday or weekend the security lines take about 2 minutes. They don't scan you very thoroughly, liquids are allowed, don't ask you to take off shoes belts or scan laptops, lithium batteries etc. They're usually just checking for weapons and explosives.
- HSR gates typically close 4 minutes before departure and the gates open about 12 minutes before departure. If you factor into security you rarely need to arrive more than 20 minutes before your actual time of departure. For flights, most people do well to arrive at least 40 minutes before departure otherwise you would be cutting it close.
- In the case you miss a particular train usually you can wait 30-60 minutes for the next one. If you're desperate there is standing room.
- I have almost never encountered a delayed train but flight departure delays happen nearly 30% of the time, factoring into things like weather. And when you are delayed it can be for hours.
- You can order takeout between stations and it is delivered to your seat.
How did Japan allow the virus to spread to hundreds of people aboard the Diamond Princess? If the Chinese ran that operation they would get raked over the coals for it.
i mean I could think of a few...intuitive 3d object creation (everyone understands the concept of lego), data based automation or creation of 3d visualizations, already lots of existing models that exist making it simple to mockup 3d structures, scenes, diagrams, or concepts for the artistically untrained. Basically Lego is a super intuitive way to create visualizations I'm surprised I haven't seen more of this type of stuff.
Is the author suggesting that we should think twice about running complicated machine learning models on data without understanding the data first, and for which financial econometricians already have a vast set of tools to analyze it in an intuitive and parsimonious way? Rubbish!
I always considered this a bizarre argument. Chinese characters are more alike English words than English letters. English also has thousands of words, prefixes required to achieve competency. Chinese characters consist of only around 200 radicals, more than 26, but hardly thousands. I would say the smallest unit in Chinese is a stroke, of which there are 10. Theres just an extra dimension about where strokes are placed relative to each other that makes the characters seem complex, but if you study it for a few days you would find that there arent actually that many degrees of freedom. In other words,
- strokes to letters
- radicals to prefixes, suffices
- characters to words
And here comes the comments saying all other nations violations of civil liberties are human rights issues and only in the US are they genuine concerns over national and state security. How did you bring up Japanese internment camps with a straight face?
Kudos to you. If I recall correctly, Bear Stearns at that time just agreed on a joint-venture with CITIC Securities, something that turned out to be moot due to the failure but still ahead of its time compared to other investment banks. It would seem that firm picked up on your entrepreneurial attitude.
It's just like with politics, media, and its society at large, Americans insist on being extreme about everything.
In America, something always has to be either freedom-loving or tyrannical. Something always has to be for or against. Something always has to be good or evil. Something always has to be elephant or donkey. Media and politicians have convinced people that you have to pick a side or you're on nobody's side. Debates devolve into meme-regurgitation and cease to produce any critical thinking. You can't overstate how exhausting this is for most American citizens who come from vastly different economic and cultural walks of life.
If you can't wrap your head around a culture that is perfectly OK with constant ambiguity, uncertainty, and non-black-and-white thinking then you will never get out in front of China. This is not the first time in history America has produced strong anti-China rhetoric, but as long as the rhetoric today continues down this path of polarized thinking, Americans will continue to get everything about China wrong.
Unlikely. The US competitive edge is its human capital, its talent. As long as the US remains a welcoming and attractive place for people to work from all over the world, we aren't giving away anything.
Company culture starts from the very top. C-level huddles determine the ethical priorities of its decision-makers, and these eventually are delegated down to teams.
People in developing countries (most of the English speaking internet) overestimate the efficiency of the Chinese government. It's not a coincidence that challenges in business regulation and judicial fairness arise there at the same time as phenomena usually perceived as abuse. What's commonly seen as evil is more simply pure incompetence, and it would take spending mere minutes with local Chinese folk to realize that their industrial habits, systems, and education are still decades behind those of the western world.
Corruption (accusations of which people dismiss as political weaponry) is actually a massive issue, especially with small-time graft and favors, both in the private and public sector -- as the only truth about doing business in China is that money greases wheels faster than it does in other places. The economics is important, as just one generation ago, China experienced intense famine and chaos that defies belief, and one can feel today still the effects of the social chaos and upheaval of that time. If one wishes to analyze the industrial behavior there, it is seldom useful to leap to moral arguments without analyzing the economic incentives first, unless ones' only purpose is to feel superior.