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It can be argued this is necessary because some NATO members spend lower than they're supposed to. We basically foot their defense bill.

EDIT: Here's a chart https://www.defenseone.com/politics/2015/06/nato-members-def...

In the Silicon Valley there's this feeling of monotony - that everyone is doing the same thing. Given the price of housing you can make a pretty good guess everyone is trying to either save up to move out or pay off a house here. Everyone is either trying to come up with a way to enter the hottest trendiest startup idea or doing indie games. Most of the meetups are tech/work-related and even the non-tech meetups are flooded with male, glasses, 20-30 something engineers. It's almost like everywhere you go you can't escape the pressure of work.

Personally it almost seems like the whole interview process was made to continue the whole tradition of getting high SAT or GRE scores for college, this time swapping college with the FAANG companies. We basically took all the problems with a standardized test-based education system and moved it to jobs.

Lottery tickets don't demand that you wear multiple hats and grind for years. Even if you bought a ticket every day it's probably cheaper than quitting your job and eating into your savings for a chance at an indie moonshot.

The hobby project route is pretty much the only way.

IMHO that next generation is going to seriously need it; the world has grown very dense with information and distractions - much more than when we were younger or our parents. They're going to need that extra concentration to filter out all the garbage..and I sure hope they can discern fake information from real information because it will be everywhere by the time they come of age.

If anything, we're the lucky ones to see these problems grow from the start. The ones after us will be in the deep end right from the start.

If you're thinking you can just use a custom domain as a login email everywhere, think again cause that comes with its own risks. A guy did this and ended up losing control of his accounts since a DNS is probably less stringent on security as well, the Googs itself. TLDR: Someone hacked him by calling the DNS for his domain name and taking over his email.

https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...

It is an improvement considering the last time we had multiple powers we saw minor countries get carved up by major countries and the whole thing eventually flare up in a war that spanned continents, between major countries, and killed millions.

Even the two power order of the Cold war just meant double the problems - the USSR had its fair share of adventures.

Agreed. The notion that "Wow, any woman would've left this man for a guy who makes more, so this is an extraordinary relationship" sorta reinforces the assumption that men must be the breadwinner in any normal relationship.

But how does the scale compare between the two? It would seem like tech work lifts much less people up the chain as factory work did. And in less proportion too: A factory in the industrial era could employ thousands at a time from a population of hundreds of thousands whereas now we live in a world of millions and tech comparatively employs a couple hundred.

The savings from the cost of traditional college helps very much if a MOOC student manages to find a way to network with people via Meetups or other ways - and with the money saved one no longer has to be stingy over paying membership fees for some organizations

Agree. I paid back my loans with money that could've really done better invested in stocks.

Imagine if someone could've paid his loans, but was irresponsible and just risked /lost it all in stocks. Not only can he file a capital loss in his tax form to pay less taxes like Trump has done, and now he gets his loans and debt cleared (also like Trump has done).

If the system aids people like that, why should there be anyone who responsibly avoids debt?

I did the same, and found out that oddly enough my brother who went to a U.C. ended up getting a bonus state grant that slashed his loan burden lower than mine. In effect, he was entitled to a college with a higher cost than mine. We only found this out by comparing the paperwork into college; my brother didn't pick the U.C. knowing this beforehand.

I feel it just sends the wrong message to society if we build these gotchas and loopholes left and right like this to let people make financially bad decisions.

This would incentivize people to dish out private information on insecure platforms for the sole purpose of baiting compensation.

I'm interested in this issue in the realm of gaming.

The way I see it Apple and Google tax mobile games for using Apple and Android phones as gaming consoles. How does Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft(Xbox) handle revenue share and developer licenses?

At this rate every company should just start claiming their workers are human-lookalike cyborgs since being a plain-old honest company who doesn't lie about using human workers doesn't get the same boost as one using human workers but claiming the "AI" treatment.

A lot of argument against tariffs seems to assume that prices in the US will rise and stay increased permanently assuming production stays in China.

Wouldn't the downsides of tariffs actually only remain until production moves to say, Vietnam, etc.?

But then why not just discard them while they sleep at a hotel you own or AirBnb or something?

How does this compare to Inferno, which you can also use JSX and Hyperscript with - https://github.com/infernojs/inferno

This seems smaller in footprint, but does it also win in runtime performance and stability?

But doesn't locking up your PC in a cabinet hurt its cooling performance? I doubt there is adequate airflow in there.

But doesn't this basically mean that if you only have $1,000 in your pocket, anyone with $11,000 can outbid you for your creations? You will not be able to name a price you can't literally pay right away.

Or only the rich can afford copyright. Or like you said, the rich can be the "patron" of poor artists and keep them on a leash.

But South Korea does not need more working stock. They already have a tough time keeping their younger population employed.[0] Also as North Korea is mostly mountainous there's not a whole lot of new "city-building" area.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/south-korea/youth-unemployment-...

It's actually funny you pointed this out since China often points to their huge population as an excuse for not valuing human rights and individualism as much as the West.

I'm pretty sure thoroughness and self-discipline is what actually matters. Going to a site and actually buying the darn name is actually work some dreamers are too lazy to even start. You have to be pretty convicted that this is the name you're going to plaster all over the place for a while. You also have to be pretty darn sure your name might go very soon if you don't stake it asap.

I bought my domain name (my user name) relatively early (before I had even learned Node) because as Chinese names often go, vtang was already taken and many easy alternatives as well. I ended up with an "e" at the end for "engineer" but as we all know there is probably a Vincent Tang out there in the world who is also an engineer. Checked all social media and hammered things in asap.

What sort of "antiviruses" inject stuff in browsers? Do they inject their own JS? This is the first I've heard of this and would like to know more.

If that's the case then 屎 would appear all over Japanese, it's literally one of their syllables.

At this point, I imagine it's a "you first" issue. Trust is pretty darn scarce these days, how can you be sure the other side won't just annihilate you the moment they know you can't retaliate? That or be sure that not even one nuke is active or to take a page from guns, "80%" or nearly-active?

Even if we do manage full denuclearization, it'd be pretty darn hard to keep it that way seeing as how we can't even stop North Korea from joining the club.

That is still deflation. Deflation is any decrease in the general price level of goods and services. It does not matter if it is due to increased production by advanced AI robots, etc. After all, if you knew you can get something cheaper tomorrow, why spend at all? Like you said, the Fed will run against this.

If no known target thus far is high-profile, it could very well be that the current targets are guinea-pig-targets that test the malware for future applications.

[0] -> If we're talking robot armies, it will still depend on a "smaller" state's access to resources. You can't build robots out of thin air, unless you plan on hacking yourself one. But that depends on someone building one in the first place.

OP didn't suggest that though. Many people have a black-and-white ideal in which entrepreneurship means making the next Facebook or Amazon and end up aiming too high for their own means.