Spending one hour in a small restaurant room without windows sitting next to a family who just escaped from Wuhan on January 24th is the reason for the contagion, not any AC issue. Bad title. Astute but useless study by the CDC.
My two cents: change career and move to another place. I moved every four years, from countries to countries, continent to continent, never worked more than 3-4 years in one job. Career change can be from your current employer to another one or from your current favorite language to something different. It is a radical mindset change, being a slow moving individual. but the wealth of learning from different places and cultures is fantastic.
There are pros and cons to this lifestyle. I quite agree that experiencing different cultures is fantastic and will radically change a person for the better. However, I've moved around quite a bit, different countries, different US states, different companies and IMO it gets extremely exhausting after awhile (judging by the OP's question, we are probably about the same age). Not to mention, having your friends and family in all parts of the world is tough. Throw in a partner (and even kids) and the only thing you start to desire is stability.
Plus, changing jobs every few years means that you are constantly in interview churn mode and as you age, you have less and less desire to deal with the moronic ways in which interviewing is conducted. Personally, I still enjoy programming and would still write programs even if I hit the jackpot in the lottery, but the way the industry behaves these days is a big part of why people get burned out.
This may work if you are single.With family and kids its hardship. I did this with my family ,now after 3 years i wanna move out but the kids find it difficult and my wife has her difference after kids.
Young COBOL specialists are being fired here and there. They can't find a job. They can't "volunteer" either they need to get paid at the end of the day.
I see Fiserv firing all their 3-6 years COBOL juniors (last in, first out.) They retain only the most expensive 15-25 years pros.
I really, really doubt that. They pulled back on “patriotic education” which is honestly something a relatively large minority cared strongly about. If they tried to phase out Cantonese everyone who didn't move from the mainland would go ape. Also, Mandarin isn't even an official language, Cantonese and English are it.
Matthewrudy is right. The legislation for regulating Cantonese in broadcast and print media was enacted in Guangzhou, not Hong Kong. My mistake.
No politicians would say outright that they want to eliminate a major language, but they could drastically reduce its usage by imposing specific restrictions. And not just on spoken Cantonese, but variations of written Chinese other than the official simplified characters.
I wish I could post an original article here with more details, but for some reason even the bilingual news sites don't cover this story in English. Wikipedia gives a pretty good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Anti-Cantonese_regulations. The sources are all in Chinese (the only English link appears to be dead) but Google's translations weren't too bad.
But I believe that most Bloomberg terminal subscribers would argue that capitalist-style money accumulation (free markets, etc) is a good thing for an overall population, and that corruption-style money accumulation (which is the implication of the article) is a huge negative for a country.
But you can easily phrase it the other way and argue that corruption is good because it gives leadership an incentive to keep the capitalist system going instead of flipping back to Communism, and the cost of the payoff (a few hundred billion?) is far less than the increased welfare of the Chinese people (pulling hundreds of millions out of deep poverty).
Indeed, some have argued corruption is a good thing in general because people can buy what they want from the leadership instead of their running rampant over everything, which ameliorates any abuses: see for example Bryan Caplan http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/incorruptibly_e....
