There was some research that indicated stem cells can be made from skin cells. Is there a chance this field will eventually catch up by the time stem cell therapies become more widely accesssible?
As a caring child of old parents, you should get your parents to NL where you can provide the best possible care for them, instead of letting them die in a place where they can't even get a COVID test done.
If OP’s parents are anything like my dad, they have zero interest in trading their warm homeland with its familiar language and culture for cold northern Europe. My dad would rather die in Texas than live in Germany, much as he enjoyed spending a week here this summer meeting his grandson.
Older people have attachments other than their grown-up children.
This. My parents have zero interest in spending their older years in a region that doesn’t speak the language they know, colder, and has simply a different way of life than theirs not to mention their social circle.
I wholeheartedly agree with their choice, and will do my best to help them where they are.
When millions are dying around them helplessly for want of good care, it seems cruel to let them fend for themselves in their old age, where they are scared to consult a doctor. If they are not willing to come to you, shouldn't you visit, and take care of them in these difficult times?
I have been also wondering about this. My impression is that Tamil Nadu is much better in terms of health care compared to many Indian states. So, its strange that the parents are refusing to get tested. I am thinking that the parents are afraid to take public transport, and they don't want to burden their NRI son/daughter, so are making up excuses.
Tamil Nadu, Kerala are significantly ahead in many key social and public health metrics. Were they not been compensated for by BIMARU (roughly, Bihar, MP, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh) states India would be competitive with first world standards. Unfortunately, the BIMARU states are the most populous and consequently controls the political fate of the rest of the country.
The issue needs more context. It's not that they are fending for themselves in their old age. They are retiring in a village with a social circle they are comfortable with, and near a temple that they consider as pilgrimage, and have my sister who can reach them in couple of hours should there be a dire need.
> instead of letting them die in a place where they can't even get a COVID test done.
I find it hard to believe that they are unable to get tests. During the peaks, it may have been true. Outside of that, there was no shortage. And we don't even need to go to hospitals for covid tests, there are plenty of independent labs. So, if their parents don't trust hospitals, they can go to those testing centers instead. Many in my family did that, that too 2-3 times (since they have to show negative RT PCR result for travel).
Regarding China, most Hollywood studios seem to be kowtowing Chinese line these days. I have noticed a clear trend in Hollywood movies where they don't portray anything negative about China, and usually project things in positive light. This same trend can be observed in most mainstream media's projection of China. Worldwide, China is definitely reaching proportions that were only possible for the US earlier in influencing, or arm-twisting influencers like media, and movie makers.
Thanks for these thoughts. Resonated well with me. I feel we are sleepwalking into major fiascos, when a simple doorbell needs to sit on top this level of complexity. It's in our best interest to not tie every small thing into layers, and layers of complexity. Mundane things like doorbells need to have their fallback at least done properly to function locally without relying on complex cloud systems.
The article directly states in its first paragraph that the list originates from a government source:
> This is a list of states and union territories of India ranked by incidents of human trafficking as of 2016, and is based on the number of convicted cases. The list is compiled from the '2016 Crime in India Report' published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Government of India.[1]
Of course this kind of data has its own issues (e.g. incidents that don't end in a conviction because of bribery or police/judicial misconduct or that don't get caught by police at all don't end up in it), but it's probably the qualitatively best data you can get.
The link is yet to be proven:
"Some testing remains to be completed. The positive reading from the aromatherapy bottle was done by polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing. <b> CDC labs are trying to extract genetic sequence data from the PCR finding to compare to the bacteria from the Georgia patient, as well as the other three. McQuiston is confident it will prove the link. But even if it didn’t </b> the discovery of Burkholderia pseudomallei-contaminated room freshener being sold at one of the country’s largest big box chain required urgent action."
>One day the VP eng just showed up at my desk and started chatting, I didn't really know why. Turns out he was interested in knowing why it was so stable
Kudos to him, he paid attention, and noticed something that was stable. Usually something has to be broken to get attention at that level. Can't imagine leadership at most places thinking "hmm, this project we did several years ago had been running without bugs, let me go bring best practices from this developer."
I don't think this is practical for any reasonably sized company to hire all their lead/manager positions from outside.
I agree, it is probably better to follow your option (a), but does not looks like companies do that proactively. Looks like the whole edifice is centered on the fact that people don't have enough time in their hands to go find a job somewhere else.
>To management (especially with wrong incentives) this seems like a perfect worker, because management usually doesn't understand the connection between lack of engagement and planning at design/development time with their later problems (or they don't feel it is them that is going to pay the price).
This is how management is in most places I feel, especially when it comes to evaluating junior, and early senior engineers.
