If you have the opportunity for independent study, take it. I did that for part of my senior year and it freed up a huge amount of my time.
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Not one, but several other movies, including at least Pretty In Pink, Footloose, and Mannequin.
First, sources. Please.
Second, salaries are all over the map. Worse, the under-performers and insecure are always included in salary reports which makes it hard to know where you might stand against competent, self-assured peers.
Third, we need to stop worshiping $100k as any sort of meaningful milestone. Skilled tradesfolk can make that and more. "Six-figures" has had the same cultural cache my whole life. Meanwhile inflation (even w/ low rates) marches on, compounding. What was $100k in 1995 would have to be $150k today. Or 1985 to today, which would be over $210k. [1]
So painfully spot-on. My mathematical education was horrible. Meanwhile I had been writing code since I was a little kid. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized how much math I had been learning while programming. And worse, that I had been completely miseducated about what math actually is.
And I keep hearing people trying to apply Hyperloop to coast-to-coast travel, but I don't recall Elon every saying anything about that long of a distance. In fact I recall him specifically talking about "the right city pairs", which implies some kind of distance limit.
Anxiety destroyed my 20s. It kept me home-bound. I rarely went out and would have attacks at the grocery store all of the time. Early on I hoped that things would come to a head and that I would eventually be immune to it, and stronger for it. But that never happened. I was afraid to seek help because I assumed they'd put me on meds that would dull my thinking. Looking back, that probably would have been fine. At every turn anxiety held me back. A stupider but freer me would have been welcome.
After a lot of self-analysis and experimentation I discovered that about 70% of the problem was the Pepsi I was slugging down every day. For my body, sugar and caffeine together are like crack. I switched to diet and dropped about half of my daily anxiety in a few months. I eventually cut the caffeine out altogether. Daily anxiety almost entirely dropped, with occasional spikes for stressful situations. A friend told me to look into choline. I'm not a supplements guy, but it turns out eggs have plenty so I started eating eggs every morning. I also started running which has had a huge impact on my mood. After a while I rarely had anxiety. In fact most of the anxiety was from worrying that I was going to have an anxiety attack. I'm not cured - I don't like certain situations and those can still bring out an attack. The good news is that it's now at a point where I can fight back and "be brave", which I always though would fix it but never did. That actually works most of the time now. That was just impossible in the past.
I used to think that caffeine was making me smarter. It was definitely giving me bursts of ideas, but ultimately it didn't give me anything I wasn't going to have already. I was abusing a drug, not thoughtfully taking a medication.
I basically had to become enraged at how my life was going in order to do something about it.
The bottom line is to never stop trying to solve it. Try the meds, exercise, diet, meditation, electroshock, whatever. Try everything until you figure it out.
Sophistry. He says he can think of nothing that would require monitoring. So he's protesting. Nothing wrong with that, just be honest about it. IIRC there was at least one website set up to automate FOIA requests to the NSA after the Snowden info came out. Why is this guy's story special? It isn't. Why is this even a story?
I'm appalled by the NSA activity, I support Snowden, and I want change, but this story is designed to agitate for political effect and nothing more.
Edit: The enthusiasm seemed fake, not the actual tech being demonstrated, which seems straight-forward.
To be fair, folks in the US bought a LOT of European cell phones first. :)
The Caribbean instead has it's own smaller "ring": http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0121/Haiti-eart...