Took Spielman's spectral graph theory class back in the day. Was really cool to see the professor engage with students on open questions that pushed at the boundaries of research!
Maybe ask a friend who lives in China or a friend who has friends that live in China? They're also subject to fake news, but at least they can give you their experience of what daily life is like where they live. It's not like China is so locked down that it's impossible to communicate with their citizens.
But it may be unwise for them to say anything overly critical via electronic means. We'd almost need pen and paper (which might be eccentric enough to attract attention too).
I asked an American friend over Signal about it, he confirmed that the lockdown was less severe in Beijing months ago while US cities were in peak shelter in place. But he also said that every single day somebody would call to check in. That level of surveillance wouldn't fly here (our contact tracers are far less effective than say South Korea's).
China isn't North Korea. You can use VPN to access the broader internet. And if you have an American SIM card, all your traffic gets routed through the US so you can access the full internet (it's just painfully slow).
"If Chinese citizens are told by their government that covid is no longer a risk to the general population and that western media outlets are fear mongering to damage China, they will believe it regardless of the truth. The CCP is the truth in China."
Chinese people are incapable of thinking for themselves and anything you personally hear from one should be disregarded as brainwashing.
With an attitude like this, I see no hope for meaningful future cooperation. Everybody on board the cold war train.
I don't think it's really that you lack imagination; it's that the human condition is quite universal in a lot of ways so the insights you gleaned were not particularly novel. But the real value is in actually taking the insights to heart, rather than dismissing them as empty platitudes.
To be fair, the scoreboard in the post displays the success of the deploys too, which would address the third and fourth point. But of course, people can still game the metric with a ton of insignificant incremental changes that don't do anything.
I disagree. Consider it the other way - it is common wisdom to keep broad communications simple enough for a 5 year old to understand. It follows that even marketing speak needs to be so simple that 5 year olds (us, engineers) can understand. Especially so when we are the fortunate users.
"Customer can temporarily cache latitude (lat) and longitude (lng) values from the Directions API for up to 30 consecutive calendar days, after which Customer must delete the cached latitude and longitude values."
Cool idea. YMMV with this, though. The government accidentally assigned me someone else's SSN (had the same first/last name as me and was born in the same hospital) and it took about 2 years to rectify.
The first and last name may be a coincidence, but depending on how old you are the "same hospital" is likely not. SSNs are generated based partially on geographical area, so if that's the only or the biggest hospital in the area, the likelihood of getting a number from the same hospital is substantially higher.
If you have someone's SSN, you can pretty easily deduce what city they were born in unless they are very young (they switched this process recently).
Presumably, sho'he requested a credit report to verify success and saw a lifetime of someone else's credit interactions (different car, mortgage, credit cards). <edit for irreverent trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnouJoQs52c />
