Any site to get jobs there?
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If you are young (20-30), single, and are willing to have roommates to group up into some apartment, then SV may be an adventure for you. However, as you grow in life, you will need a pretty high level of income to feel secure in this environment.
Start-ups would be better off setting up shop in underdeveloped parts of the country, however, as the cost of labour here puts a serious overhead over any fledgling company.
If you are male, between 20 and 30 and fresh out of Stanford, you obviously see things very differently.
As for the other comments here, there is no doubt there are many other countries all around the world that suffer poverty under the rule of totalitarian regimes. Many of them are supported or ignored depending on whether they can afford to buy stuff (mostly weapons) from leading powers. The first-hand report in this article does nothing to deny or highlight that simple fact. So, take it as the personal account that it truly is, and nothing else.
From a software standpoint, there are now 2 categories:
1) Software as a service 2) Software as an end product
"1)" is more honest, because your customers only care about the service and you have nothing to gain by churning and regurgitating new-old-new-again ideas every 10 years in order to keep scoring new license deals.
"2)", well, I said it already: As a software vendor, you have no financial interest in selling anything that won't need to be replaced at least once a year. Hence, the constant renaming of recurring concepts over and over and over...in order to keep license revenues coming in.
Alas, while we are great at opening Pandora's box, we totally fail at evolving as spiritual beings.
When I read articles such as this one, I rejoice at the idea that youth is eternal.
And I thought it would happen the way it did.
Python was already around back then in 1994, but nobody cared because Java had Duke and was being pushed as the new idiom for everything networked.
Hacker's radar is a valuable instinct, but when a reputable commercial entity acts as a wise custodian, behind a technology with technical merit, effort can easily trigger and accelerate grass root adoption.
Also, the calorie deficit does not even need to be large. 100-200 calories a day will already make a bit change in the long run.
Part of the problem is that people want results fast. Again, faster than even the laws of thermodynamics would permit.
But, no one has ever put on weight on a calorie deficit. NEVER.
This being said, you can get overweight or even obese if you eat too much, be it green beans or lard.
Similarly, you can lose weight eating "bad" foods, if you maintain a calorie deficit.
Obviously, for long term results, it's best to eat good food, exercise regularly and do both with moderation.
That is it. This is all there is to know on that topic.
PS: Anyone above 500 pounds can lose 100 pounds fairly quickly. Using such an achievement to prove that this or that miracle diet is best...is disingenuous.