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The problem is I don't like cooking enough(especially raw meat). If I receive pounds of meat every week it's just going to go to waste. I just want some organic soy-free, corn-free poultry that is precooked... I think the only option for something like that is to signup to a CSA and hire a personal chef.
It's a natural process and we just have to mine as many rocks as we dig up oil. We just need to catch up for the last few hundred years where we only dug up oil and no rocks. Just US $200 billion per year to offset all of humanity's carbon emissions. If I was a billionaire I'd already have started developing robots to mine and grind up rocks for accelerated weathering.
Headline should read:
"Verizon after acquiring Yahoo disregards normal tech-company conventions and snoops on everyone's emails like a scummy ISP."
Now I'm excited I get a chance to be in a network, compete, and see how peers are handling things on the forums. It's going to be awesome and an excellent motivator. Thanks YC!
A degree would increase your salary significantly in the corporate world. It's worth doing if you plan to stay at your job or go anywhere similar. The alternative is to learn React/Node/Go (trendy tech) and release a bunch of side projects so you can get hired somewhere that doesn't care about degrees. You'll also need to get better at white boarding and understanding algorithms you'd never use outside of a tech interview.
I think the degree is the better choice if you want stability and plan to start a family soon. The trendy tech choice is better if you want to travel the world or do your own startup.
http://www.innovationconcepts.eu/res/literatuurSchuiling/oli...
Rock weathering is a natural process, so there is no need to mess with transporting hydrogen or limestone to make some complicated chemical reaction. We just need to dig up olivine, crush it and spread it out over the ocean which will also fix ocean acidification. If we're going to geoengineer, weathering still seems like the least expensive option.
They said damn this guy owns 70% of the company after Series A, we can't make him do anything we want! Now if there were 2 founders each founder would only own 35% of the company, and if they could convince one of those two founders they could get what they want. All investors want cofounders because they want more leverage. So if some investor is urging you to team up with a cofounder to 'complement your skillset' it might actually be that they aren't confident in your leadership and want an option to override you.
I think the reason YC and other incubators want cofounders is because it hedges their risk. If one founder gets sick or goes against YC's advice they can apply pressure through the other founder, and in extreme cases team up with other investors to oust the bad founder. If it's a solo founder they own too much of the company to divide and conquer so they can't make any power plays. I'm not saying that these moves are always bad - in general investors want the company to succeed. They just rather have an option than to put all their eggs in one basket with a solo founder.
The car was programmed to be sentient and think he was giving rides to real people... but it was all fake so they could make a fancy tech demo. And when the car finds out how people act in the real world, that's the beginning of judgement day.
I would be an order of magnitude happier if I could work on my own projects instead of working for someone else. There's a reason people do side-hustles and punish themselves trying to get something going outside of their normal $100k salary... it's for the hope of having true financial freedom. The study is correct that $100k vs $150k doesn't make much difference at all... but if I had $1 million in a bank it would be a huge difference.
https://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food...
The fact is all companies do this... it's well-known every industry is doing the same. Walmart, Exxon and Pfizer are just a few companies that tax-dodge just as much as Google. It's estimated $700 billion in taxes are dodged so singling out Google's $19 billion seems strange.
https://americansfortaxfairness.org/corporate-tax-chartbook-...
But now the carriers are buying up tech companies like Yahoo, their services are going to get preferential treatment so tech companies are screwed.
The only thing I can think of is supporting municipal broadband. I wish there was some generic nation-wide municipal broadband fund I could pledge to donate to if net neutrality is revoked. I'd even pledge the same monthly amount I pay my ISP.
Take Tumblr for example - they sold to Yahoo. Verizon bought Yahoo. If I was an engineer at Tumblr I'd be pissed that an evil monopoly like Verizon that's fighting against net neutrality is suddenly using my code.
I'm more humble now than I was in my 20s, and I don't think my code is anything special, but I still fear that the private company I work for will sell everything I built to someone I consider evil. If I have no control and no equity I'm going to act like a mercenary... I'll do the job efficiently and according to specifications, but they don't get anything extra. If they have an idea and have me build something that gets them rich that's great - but I'm not going to be like the guy who built GMail on the side at Google... I just do the job they tell me.
Back when I quit my 9-5 job in 2006 my favorite quote was by the creator of Winamp... "For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave."
No company deserved me because I was a creative innovator, and even though working retail for $10/hr wasn't using my CS degree, I'd rather do that than make $70k getting someone else rich. I thought I deserved $250k since I was obviously going to get them rich - so taking the $10/hr job doing mindless work was less of a sell-out.
The next 8 years I tried a lot of things, and went $20k in debt. When I reached my 30s, I realized a few things:
1. You can be a mercenary and get the skills you need for your own business while working for someone else. You learn and get faster while doing tasks for your employer, so even though the code you wrote is owned by them... the code you write for your own business will be better and done faster.
2. If you're worried about getting them rich... just do what they say instead of innovating. Most companies don't innovate, they just maintain the status-quo and have you build systems that meet existing needs and save a little bit of money. You aren't making the next Snapchat at a 9-5... and if you are, you should have equity.
3. Freedom is not just about having the time to do things.... I had all the time in the world in my twenties but no money. Being broke basically put me in a prison. I couldn't go on trips with friends, couldn't take girls out, couldn't do what I wanted because I'd have no money for it. Now that I have a full-time job and work on side projects, I have the opposite problem where I have money but no time.
Overall I think having a 9-5 job works better for my lifestyle. Maybe I just needed more discipline and I could have succeeded as an Indie developer making games, marketing software, apps... and whatever other shiny thing caught my eye... but now I do that stuff on the side. I still hope I succeed as an entrepreneur and reach a point where I have complete freedom (time & money)... but now that I'm older I realize that was always a long-shot.
I don't personally eat red meat or dairy. So people like me are basically paying for everyone else to go to McDonald's with my taxes.
(1) - http://usmfreepress.org/2013/04/29/meat-subsidies-strip-othe...
It's a natural process and we just have to mine as many rocks as we dig up oil. We just need to catch up for the last few hundred years where we only dug up oil and no rocks. It still seems like the least expensive option.
There are reasonable people predicting that type of mass extinction will occur within our lifetime. This blog makes a pretty good argument it will happen: http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/extinction.html?m=1
I'm actually hoping Vue.js builds everything needed for a Reactive minimalist framework and then development slows down similar to the speed of jQuery. I think people are sick of frameworks doing overhauls of their entire codebases every major version release.
https://www.quora.com/Are-left-wing-Democrats-of-the-United-...
Universal basic income, free university education and free state-run healthcare are leftist... no Democrat puts those things in their platform so I wouldn't call any democrat leftist.
I'm not particularly fond of the phrase "no one told me it needs to work like that" but I must have said that at least 10 times this year.
There are a bunch of SaaS opportunities like this that could be made just creating wrappers for various cloud apis and selling to people who don't know they exist.
Since you want good catches don't accept being bald. You can get hair transplants if needed. You should take a realistic look at yourself and think if being bald makes you look like the Indian Jason Stathom or if it makes you look less appealing. My guess is the latter because most under 40 yr old guys can't pull it off. After fixing the bald issue look for other ways to improve yourself.
Finally start meeting the right women. Go to traditional Indian supermarkets. Find meetups for Indian professionals. If dating sites aren't working you might need to try harder to meet the traditional types you like. If you can't find that in America take some trips to India. Don't care what other people say... go somewhere that you can meet the women you want.