I agree that a lot of the recent "Trump talk" about bringing back manufacturing is just speech to make an audience happy. But it doesn't have to all be nonsense either.
You can see by how many foreign auto-makers chose to put assembly plants in the U.S. that it can make good financial sense. (Not long ago, the whole "Buy American!" thing meant bashing companies like Toyota, Hyundai and Kia -- yet today, they're employing lots of American workers and putting the vehicles together here that we buy here. Saves a lot of money in costs to ship them over from Japan or S. Korea.)
No, there's not any point in trying to bring manufacturing here that's little more than slave labor, like sewing together dress shirts or jeans. But there's a whole lot of more advanced manufacturing of physically large objects that makes sense to do in America.
That's all good and dandy until you realize all those foreign manufacturers are heavily automated. You can bring back manufacturing output, but not manufacturing jobs. That shit is gone, never to come back. Hell, China is already making the change, and Mexico has increased its purchases of industrial robots five-fold in the last 2 years IIRC.
And guess what? We have millions of workers who are effectively illiterate who can neither work in a modern manufacturing plant nor operate in a service economy.
Read Lester Thurow's "A Weakness in Process Technology", 18 December 1987. Everything I'm telling you was identified 30 years ago. Both the nation and the individual have done nothing. So whatever comes,it is deserving.
That may well be true, but the US - shitty schools notwithstanding - still has some of the best programmers in the world. So the problem isn't just schools.
Top notch US programmers (either educated here or immigrants) are losing their jobs to second-rate low-cost foreign competition.
Bullshit. If you are top-notch, you rarely get offshored. And if you do, you land a job right away. Either that or your definition of top-notch leaves a lot to be desired.
I know, I've been doing this shit for almost 25 years. Not my first rodeo, and I see who struggles and who doesn't. Good enough engineers know and expect a cycle every 4-6 years, plan ahead and when it happens, they simply land somewhere else.
That's been the dynamics for everyone for the last 20+ years. People that act surprise or wonder that all the jobs are leaving? That tells me they have been doing the same shit in a 9-5 gig for way too long, insulated from reality.
People who are coming on H1B are uprooting their entire life to be mobile. What stops you from doing the same. Many places in the world still will pay an American more to do the same job because America is onsidered most advanced so all its citizens must be super smart. Go work in the gulf or Africa and the expat salaries you get will mean you can retire in 5 years if you save smartly.
^^ This. A million times.
A good American engineer can work anywhere and get an incredibly good quality of life.
I have the same question to many people who bitch and moan about their jobs going to China... 10, 15 years ago... and still live in the same economically depressed towns without learning anything during all that time. For each one of those bitches, there is a good-to-God American who treks out to work at an oil rig in Texas or North Dakota or wherever. Or work 2-3 part-time jobs (which sucks, but you still keep moving, and for as long as you keep moving, you can climb out, or your kids.) Shit, Mexicans trek fucking deserts, sometimes dying in the process, but these bitches can't bother themselves to trek out of Buttholeburg to a larger city or another state where the prospects, though ugly are always much better.
When things go south, we keep moving. I've seen so much turmoil in the last 28 years. People worth a damn just adapt. You'll notice that those most at risk are the ones on the same fucking chair for 10-20 years.
We are past manufacturing. We are in a post-industrial setup and no amount of barriers would have prevented globalization. I mean, shit, the Japanese beat America in car manufacturing in 1972. That's 35 years ago. The writing on the wall has been there for three fucking decades.
And what do we have to show for? Millions of effectively illiterate workers who have no chance at all to transition to a post-manufacturing economy, which is what we have. There is no going back just in the same way we cannot go back to mercantilism or feudalism.
You can insulate yourself from this job competition churn. All you have to do is plan for upheavals every 4-6 years, and learn something significant on a regular basis (and certainly by avoiding doing the same exact job for 10-20 years in a 9-5 fashion.)
So you think you should be able to work in bumfuck Arkansas with it's relatively low cost of living and make a Silicon Valley salary/bonus. A Bentonville McMansion will get you a studio apartment (if that) in SFO.
Good luck with that. Look on the bright side, you can always work at that other wellspring of jobs in Bentonville....Tyson Foods.
^^^ This.
I could go buy a home, hell a ranch, for half of what I paid for my 3-bedroom home. But then, I wouldn't have one of the best elementary schools in the entire South Florida region within walking distance, in one of the best suburbs in the nation, with reliable internet, and have a somewhat readily and reliable supply of high paying tech jobs within 45 minutes of commute.
If/when shit hits the fan, I can (more or less) reliably find another job at a comparable salary. In other, much cheaper areas, that's just not effing possible.
By the same token, I wouldn't be able to buy a 2-bedroom apartment (not house, not even condo, but apartment) with what I paid for my house if I lived in Silicon Valley. But I would have a much greater supply of job opportunities at my disposal.
I think SV is an aberration as far as COL goes, even with all the tech jobs out there. But for all other large cities, here and abroad, a higher COL goes hand in hand with a greater pool of jobs.
There is a point where moving to a much cheaper area is tantamount to job seppuku as far as I'm concerned. This is specially true in software/IT where you *must* plan to change jobs (or be forced to change jobs) every 4-6 years.
Same in Florida. They get speeders and DUIs, never texters/distracted drivers. I'm honestly less scared of someone with a.09BAC than someone texting, yet texting and driving seems to be treated like a seatbelt violation or something. It's nuts! I'm usually not in favor of criminalizing common behavior but this is people's lives. Don't use your fucking phone in the car, especially not to text/interact with the screen! Because it worked 999 times in the past doesn't mean it will always work. It is lowering your ability to drive considerably.
As a fellow Florida driver, I agree with this motion.
"What is an abstract class, and why do you need it."
There are several ways to answer this question, many of them not necessarily compatible with one another, with enough differences to throw people into heated debates. I fail to see the intelligence of asking this question upon entry... unless they were monitoring Omin's behavioral response (to see if he would trip.)
The most surprising in this story that Custom officers were able to come up with the quoted questions.
Ever heard of "support specialists" asking you questions out of an effing questionare? Ever talked to a head hunter asking you pre-canned questions about technology when you know damned well the head hunter has no effing clue what each of them mean?
David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't do riddles."
I don't buy the notion that someone with a CS degree cannot implement bubblesort on a whiteboard, regardless of real life accomplishments. With that said, his last sentence (I look code up on the internet all the time), that's the motto I live by.
Someone asks me how do you call function X on Y api?, and I'll answer that's what google is for, I don't memorize minutia. And I'd walk away from an interview that requires me to code something non-trivial without an internet connection. I'd work on a whiteboard to illustrate my problem solving skills, but ask me minutia or expect me to code without a reference?
Nope, I'm out. Life is short, there is plenty of game out there, and I'm too old for this junior level game playing shit.
Additionally, I do not pity people who find the game demoralizing. There are more demoralizing things in life, like cancer or poverty. Interviews? They are demoralizing because you let them. That's just part of the game. Build the mindset to waddle through shit creek till you get what you want.
Demoralizing yourself because the interview process is the stupidest exercise of self-indulgence ever.
David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't do riddles."
I don't buy the notion that someone with a CS degree cannot implement bubblesort on a whiteboard, regardless of real life accomplishments. With that said, his last sentence (I look code up on the internet all the time), that's the motto I live by.
Someone asks me how do you call function X on Y api?, and I'll answer that's what google is for, I don't memorize minutia. And I'd walk away from an interview that requires me to code something non-trivial without an internet connection. I'd work on a whiteboard to illustrate my problem solving skills, but ask me minutia or expect me to code without a reference?
Nope, I'm out. Life is short, there is plenty of game out there, and I'm too old for this junior level game playing shit.
David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't do riddles."
I call bullshit on this. His background claims to have a BS in CS. There is no fucking way *not* to know bubble sort after getting a CS degree (unless in Denmark a CS degree is more like an IT or MIS degree, which is fair and understandable then.)
It epends. If you have a Masters degree in Computer Science, and you can't explain NP Complete, IMHO you have wasted a lot of time and money.
Undergraduate degree? Its a cr*p shoot. Some programs require learning about P vs. NP, and some don't.
^^^ This. Similarly, I wouldn't recall how to implement a red/black tree or tarjan's algorithm.
OTH, I would expect anyone with a CS background to implement bubble sort, quicksort, a bi-directional linked list, and a hash table without significant problems.
I make $160k base (+ unreliable yearly small bonus), live in Silicon Valley, own a house in one of the nicer cities (read: not shit hole), have 2 kids who get everything they need, my wife does not earn a paycheck, and we received no help from family. It is not unreasonable for a single tech worker making $160k with $3300 rent to live well in the bay area. People scraping by at that paycheck have have different priorities.
Where at in SV do you own a house, and what size? What's your commute? I'm interested. My research was done from the remoteness of South Florida. Would be nice to get some intel from the ground.
I'm not entirely sure what an "iron mallet" is, but 2 pounds is like 2 blocks of butter. It's pretty heavy weight to fall on you from a tall height, but it really depends on the density, shape and elasticity of what is hitting you. 1 kg of feathers landing on you probably won't do a lot of damage, a 1kg cube of lead would likely kill you. The average shape and materials of drones, being plastic which is usually somewhat springy, will fit somewhere in the middle between lead and feathers. Anyway it's not immediately obvious that a 1kg drone falling from a height would be particularly legal on average.
I'm pretty sure a 2lbs drone is a lot more solid than 2lbs of butter or 2lbs of feathers. Not as dense as a mallet, but dense enough to transfer enough kinetic juice to kill you if it hits you in the right place.
There's a difference here between criminal and civil action. There's a fairly good chance she's going to sue him in civil court, (and settle for doctor bills, time off work, maybe some pain and suffering compensation etc) and that alone could be quite punishing. Don't think of this criminal sentence as the retribution for the crime, that will come later.
This is all about the criminal case. Try to keep in mind it is supposed to weigh things like criminal intent, deliberate as well as actual negligence with respect to the public, etc. There certainly was negligence here, but is the punishment appropriate?
If I'm riding my bicycle down the sidewalk (which is illegal in this city btw, you're supposed to keep to the streets to avoid hitting peds) and I am talking with my friend behind me and don't see that ped on the sidewalk and run into them, knock them down, I'm likely to do more damage to them than most drones. Maybe I even give the 'ol gal a mild concussion when she hits the sidewalk. There was no criminal intent, I didn't intend to be negligent but in the end I was. (and in this case I was even breaking a law, which here is used primarily simply to make the collision undeniably my fault, rather than to ticket or arrest me) Now, in addition to any civil case she may file against me, do I deserve a month in jail?
Depends on the injury I would supposed, but in my book, yeah, in the hypothetical case, you were grossly negligent and where one cunt hair away from causing grave harm or even death.
It's like, if I'm texting and driving and I kill or hurt someone, I deserve to go to jail. Same with a bicycle. From an ethical POV, whether the law specifically says so, I'd say any person (myself included) who injures someone from gross negligence when conducting something that is not even vital, yeah, jail time.
This is a problem of supply and demand. There are not enough apartments, condos and high-rises within reasonable commuting distance (combined with an extensive public metro/subway system) to meet demand.
Simple solution: revisit building codes to allow construction of high occupancy residential buildings. Lots of them. Everywhere. An economically strong area that spans from San Francisco to San Jose, it should be brimming with high rises and apartment buildings.
But that won't happen because ZOMG we have to maintain the city character and shit. In other words, selfishness and ego.
Nowhere in the article does it mention how many of these villagers were on the constant edge of starvation prior to having access to a more varied diet. It does mention they do shorter foraging routes than they did 25 years ago, but doesn't mention how that would reasonably mean they would starve without outside sources of food. Oh, and then there's the nugget that they are BETTER at digesting carbs and sugars than Europeans, which leads them to eat significantly more..
This article is full of lies and half truths subby!
In modern times, they have not been on the constant edge of starvation.
I'm left worrying whether he actually meant that's what you get with $150k/year income anyway.
Another idea : for a one-time $150k purchase, buy a one-car garage near SF and live in there (semi-clandestinely).
It's actually quite true in many states in the middle of the country. Even in California as long as you don't need to live in a large metropolitan area, you can get reasonably priced housing. Shop Oklahoma City OK, Pensacola FL and similar places on zillow.com and see for yourself. You can get a nice, nice house for no more than two year's salary.
And a completely barren job market for when shit hits the fan (which always does.) I live 9 hours away from Pensacola. I wouldn't move there at all, even if I earned the lottery. There is barely anything there in terms of jobs or education for my children. There are costs associated to living in flyover country that most people do not realize.
Last year my taxable income was $190000. You can buy shares in my employer. I wouldn't.
So, 16 years ago I paid a year's pay at the time (85k) in cash for a solid, but unattractive, house in a working class, decent suburb.
Three years ago, after I got a lot of pay rises, because good real engineers are well paid, I paid 300k cash to have it knocked down and a new one built. That is now worth 600k.
So which of you dummies in the IT game can't figure out how to do that?
Meanwhile, I bought a weekender. For cash. But that was mainly to annoy you lot.
Good for you. I doubt I would want to pull something like that (and I guess it depends on where you live.) For me to do that, I'd have to buy a house in a neighborhood that might be decent (in terms of citizens) but with a shitty school district.
Once I demolish (after all the permit costs) and build a new house (after all the costs of rebuilding), yeah I'd have a house that is nominally 2x the original price. But how much would I put in? And how much would my ROI would be (certainly not 2x the original cost)? And then what, put the kids in a shitty school or add the expense of a private school?
Nah, I'd rather pay the more expensive monthly price tag by living in a more expensive area, without the hassles of playing "construction firm" and without having to put my kids in a private school (because a good school is not optional for me.)
Your solution might work for you (kudos for you). It doesn't mean it is a general solution for others, specially others with kids.
General recommendations are 5-10 years salary to be spent on a house.
LOL, only in Silicon Valley bizarro-world (or NYC, or DC). In sane parts of the country, the normal recommendation is three years' salary.
Exactly. And I doubt a sane bank would lend anyone for a house above 3-4 times one's salary unless a person has substantial savings (way above 1 years of GROSS salary.)
BA must be insane. $150k/yr will get you a $2M house, including taxes and insurance.
WTF? That'd put you way out of solvency. Responsible and manageable borrowing should put you at $450K-500K mortage tops with a $150k/year income. You are an idiot if you go above 3.5-4 your annual salary (and I highly doubt a bank will lend you that much unless you have boatloads of money in savings.)
Not when they're (a) optional and (b) used to obscure the point, they're not! It is goddamn dishonest to pretend that Silicon Valley tech-worker take-home pay, with gold-plated health care, a maxed out 401k (and maybe exercised stock options), and a metric ass-ton of other fringe benefits is in any way comparable to normal-person take-home pay that includes taxes, basically zero retirement savings (outside of social security) and fuck-all else.
They are optional if you if you think preparing for a rainy day in your waning years are optional. It's fucking not. And that's a testament of our crooked and out of control COL projected into the future and shitty health care system.
We have a "choose your poison situation", all of us. Put money into your retirement and suffer from cash flow issues today, or don't have a cash flow issue today, but ensure you will eat cat food when you cannot work anymore.
And that's a reality for most households making 6 figures. Imagine what's like for blue collar workers or poor people.
If we can to argue that retirement is optional, we might as well also argue that engaging in protein–energy malnutrition as a cost-savings measure is also optional. I'm being facetious obviously, but you get the point (or so I hope.)
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I agree that a lot of the recent "Trump talk" about bringing back manufacturing is just speech to make an audience happy. But it doesn't have to all be nonsense either. You can see by how many foreign auto-makers chose to put assembly plants in the U.S. that it can make good financial sense. (Not long ago, the whole "Buy American!" thing meant bashing companies like Toyota, Hyundai and Kia -- yet today, they're employing lots of American workers and putting the vehicles together here that we buy here. Saves a lot of money in costs to ship them over from Japan or S. Korea.)
No, there's not any point in trying to bring manufacturing here that's little more than slave labor, like sewing together dress shirts or jeans. But there's a whole lot of more advanced manufacturing of physically large objects that makes sense to do in America.
That's all good and dandy until you realize all those foreign manufacturers are heavily automated. You can bring back manufacturing output, but not manufacturing jobs. That shit is gone, never to come back. Hell, China is already making the change, and Mexico has increased its purchases of industrial robots five-fold in the last 2 years IIRC.
And guess what? We have millions of workers who are effectively illiterate who can neither work in a modern manufacturing plant nor operate in a service economy.
Read Lester Thurow's "A Weakness in Process Technology", 18 December 1987. Everything I'm telling you was identified 30 years ago. Both the nation and the individual have done nothing. So whatever comes ,it is deserving.
That may well be true, but the US - shitty schools notwithstanding - still has some of the best programmers in the world. So the problem isn't just schools.
Top notch US programmers (either educated here or immigrants) are losing their jobs to second-rate low-cost foreign competition.
Bullshit. If you are top-notch, you rarely get offshored. And if you do, you land a job right away. Either that or your definition of top-notch leaves a lot to be desired.
I know, I've been doing this shit for almost 25 years. Not my first rodeo, and I see who struggles and who doesn't. Good enough engineers know and expect a cycle every 4-6 years, plan ahead and when it happens, they simply land somewhere else.
That's been the dynamics for everyone for the last 20+ years. People that act surprise or wonder that all the jobs are leaving? That tells me they have been doing the same shit in a 9-5 gig for way too long, insulated from reality.
People who are coming on H1B are uprooting their entire life to be mobile. What stops you from doing the same. Many places in the world still will pay an American more to do the same job because America is onsidered most advanced so all its citizens must be super smart. Go work in the gulf or Africa and the expat salaries you get will mean you can retire in 5 years if you save smartly.
^^ This. A million times.
A good American engineer can work anywhere and get an incredibly good quality of life.
I have the same question to many people who bitch and moan about their jobs going to China... 10, 15 years ago... and still live in the same economically depressed towns without learning anything during all that time. For each one of those bitches, there is a good-to-God American who treks out to work at an oil rig in Texas or North Dakota or wherever. Or work 2-3 part-time jobs (which sucks, but you still keep moving, and for as long as you keep moving, you can climb out, or your kids.) Shit, Mexicans trek fucking deserts, sometimes dying in the process, but these bitches can't bother themselves to trek out of Buttholeburg to a larger city or another state where the prospects, though ugly are always much better.
When things go south, we keep moving. I've seen so much turmoil in the last 28 years. People worth a damn just adapt. You'll notice that those most at risk are the ones on the same fucking chair for 10-20 years.
We are past manufacturing. We are in a post-industrial setup and no amount of barriers would have prevented globalization. I mean, shit, the Japanese beat America in car manufacturing in 1972. That's 35 years ago. The writing on the wall has been there for three fucking decades.
And what do we have to show for? Millions of effectively illiterate workers who have no chance at all to transition to a post-manufacturing economy, which is what we have. There is no going back just in the same way we cannot go back to mercantilism or feudalism.
You can insulate yourself from this job competition churn. All you have to do is plan for upheavals every 4-6 years, and learn something significant on a regular basis (and certainly by avoiding doing the same exact job for 10-20 years in a 9-5 fashion.)
Yes, it's ugly. Welcome to humanity.
So you think you should be able to work in bumfuck Arkansas with it's relatively low cost of living and make a Silicon Valley salary/bonus. A Bentonville McMansion will get you a studio apartment (if that) in SFO.
Good luck with that. Look on the bright side, you can always work at that other wellspring of jobs in Bentonville....Tyson Foods.
^^^ This.
I could go buy a home, hell a ranch, for half of what I paid for my 3-bedroom home. But then, I wouldn't have one of the best elementary schools in the entire South Florida region within walking distance, in one of the best suburbs in the nation, with reliable internet, and have a somewhat readily and reliable supply of high paying tech jobs within 45 minutes of commute.
If/when shit hits the fan, I can (more or less) reliably find another job at a comparable salary. In other, much cheaper areas, that's just not effing possible.
By the same token, I wouldn't be able to buy a 2-bedroom apartment (not house, not even condo, but apartment) with what I paid for my house if I lived in Silicon Valley. But I would have a much greater supply of job opportunities at my disposal.
I think SV is an aberration as far as COL goes, even with all the tech jobs out there. But for all other large cities, here and abroad, a higher COL goes hand in hand with a greater pool of jobs.
There is a point where moving to a much cheaper area is tantamount to job seppuku as far as I'm concerned. This is specially true in software/IT where you *must* plan to change jobs (or be forced to change jobs) every 4-6 years.
Same in Florida. They get speeders and DUIs, never texters/distracted drivers. I'm honestly less scared of someone with a .09BAC than someone texting, yet texting and driving seems to be treated like a seatbelt violation or something. It's nuts! I'm usually not in favor of criminalizing common behavior but this is people's lives. Don't use your fucking phone in the car, especially not to text/interact with the screen! Because it worked 999 times in the past doesn't mean it will always work. It is lowering your ability to drive considerably.
As a fellow Florida driver, I agree with this motion.
"What is an abstract class, and why do you need it."
There are several ways to answer this question, many of them not necessarily compatible with one another, with enough differences to throw people into heated debates. I fail to see the intelligence of asking this question upon entry... unless they were monitoring Omin's behavioral response (to see if he would trip.)
The most surprising in this story that Custom officers were able to come up with the quoted questions.
Ever heard of "support specialists" asking you questions out of an effing questionare? Ever talked to a head hunter asking you pre-canned questions about technology when you know damned well the head hunter has no effing clue what each of them mean?
When I went to do business, I had to have a visa.
Sounds pretty dodgy..... What's "Business"? Is attending an industry conference for personal education or to meet other people considered business?
Does it count as business if you're going on vacation, but you happen to meet up with an overseas client to a little chit-chat / smalltalk?
Depends on the country. A visit to a conference can be considered a business trip. That's for the host country to decide.
David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't do riddles."
I don't buy the notion that someone with a CS degree cannot implement bubblesort on a whiteboard, regardless of real life accomplishments. With that said, his last sentence (I look code up on the internet all the time), that's the motto I live by.
Someone asks me how do you call function X on Y api?, and I'll answer that's what google is for, I don't memorize minutia. And I'd walk away from an interview that requires me to code something non-trivial without an internet connection. I'd work on a whiteboard to illustrate my problem solving skills, but ask me minutia or expect me to code without a reference?
Nope, I'm out. Life is short, there is plenty of game out there, and I'm too old for this junior level game playing shit.
Additionally, I do not pity people who find the game demoralizing. There are more demoralizing things in life, like cancer or poverty. Interviews? They are demoralizing because you let them. That's just part of the game. Build the mindset to waddle through shit creek till you get what you want.
Demoralizing yourself because the interview process is the stupidest exercise of self-indulgence ever.
David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't do riddles."
I don't buy the notion that someone with a CS degree cannot implement bubblesort on a whiteboard, regardless of real life accomplishments. With that said, his last sentence (I look code up on the internet all the time), that's the motto I live by.
Someone asks me how do you call function X on Y api?, and I'll answer that's what google is for, I don't memorize minutia. And I'd walk away from an interview that requires me to code something non-trivial without an internet connection. I'd work on a whiteboard to illustrate my problem solving skills, but ask me minutia or expect me to code without a reference?
Nope, I'm out. Life is short, there is plenty of game out there, and I'm too old for this junior level game playing shit.
David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't do riddles."
I call bullshit on this. His background claims to have a BS in CS. There is no fucking way *not* to know bubble sort after getting a CS degree (unless in Denmark a CS degree is more like an IT or MIS degree, which is fair and understandable then.)
It epends. If you have a Masters degree in Computer Science, and you can't explain NP Complete, IMHO you have wasted a lot of time and money.
Undergraduate degree? Its a cr*p shoot. Some programs require learning about P vs. NP, and some don't.
^^^ This. Similarly, I wouldn't recall how to implement a red/black tree or tarjan's algorithm.
OTH, I would expect anyone with a CS background to implement bubble sort, quicksort, a bi-directional linked list, and a hash table without significant problems.
I make $160k base (+ unreliable yearly small bonus), live in Silicon Valley, own a house in one of the nicer cities (read: not shit hole), have 2 kids who get everything they need, my wife does not earn a paycheck, and we received no help from family. It is not unreasonable for a single tech worker making $160k with $3300 rent to live well in the bay area. People scraping by at that paycheck have have different priorities.
Where at in SV do you own a house, and what size? What's your commute? I'm interested. My research was done from the remoteness of South Florida. Would be nice to get some intel from the ground.
I'm not entirely sure what an "iron mallet" is, but 2 pounds is like 2 blocks of butter. It's pretty heavy weight to fall on you from a tall height, but it really depends on the density, shape and elasticity of what is hitting you. 1 kg of feathers landing on you probably won't do a lot of damage, a 1kg cube of lead would likely kill you. The average shape and materials of drones, being plastic which is usually somewhat springy, will fit somewhere in the middle between lead and feathers. Anyway it's not immediately obvious that a 1kg drone falling from a height would be particularly legal on average.
I'm pretty sure a 2lbs drone is a lot more solid than 2lbs of butter or 2lbs of feathers. Not as dense as a mallet, but dense enough to transfer enough kinetic juice to kill you if it hits you in the right place.
There's a difference here between criminal and civil action. There's a fairly good chance she's going to sue him in civil court, (and settle for doctor bills, time off work, maybe some pain and suffering compensation etc) and that alone could be quite punishing. Don't think of this criminal sentence as the retribution for the crime, that will come later.
This is all about the criminal case. Try to keep in mind it is supposed to weigh things like criminal intent, deliberate as well as actual negligence with respect to the public, etc. There certainly was negligence here, but is the punishment appropriate?
If I'm riding my bicycle down the sidewalk (which is illegal in this city btw, you're supposed to keep to the streets to avoid hitting peds) and I am talking with my friend behind me and don't see that ped on the sidewalk and run into them, knock them down, I'm likely to do more damage to them than most drones. Maybe I even give the 'ol gal a mild concussion when she hits the sidewalk. There was no criminal intent, I didn't intend to be negligent but in the end I was. (and in this case I was even breaking a law, which here is used primarily simply to make the collision undeniably my fault, rather than to ticket or arrest me) Now, in addition to any civil case she may file against me, do I deserve a month in jail?
Depends on the injury I would supposed, but in my book, yeah, in the hypothetical case, you were grossly negligent and where one cunt hair away from causing grave harm or even death.
It's like, if I'm texting and driving and I kill or hurt someone, I deserve to go to jail. Same with a bicycle. From an ethical POV, whether the law specifically says so, I'd say any person (myself included) who injures someone from gross negligence when conducting something that is not even vital, yeah, jail time.
He will lose his job
Life and consequences. News at 11.
Simple solution: revisit building codes to allow construction of high occupancy residential buildings. Lots of them. Everywhere. An economically strong area that spans from San Francisco to San Jose, it should be brimming with high rises and apartment buildings.
But that won't happen because ZOMG we have to maintain the city character and shit. In other words, selfishness and ego.
Nowhere in the article does it mention how many of these villagers were on the constant edge of starvation prior to having access to a more varied diet. It does mention they do shorter foraging routes than they did 25 years ago, but doesn't mention how that would reasonably mean they would starve without outside sources of food. Oh, and then there's the nugget that they are BETTER at digesting carbs and sugars than Europeans, which leads them to eat significantly more..
This article is full of lies and half truths subby!
In modern times, they have not been on the constant edge of starvation.
This is readily apparent in plain nigiri sushi.
And most readily apparent with high grade expensive otoro.
I'm left worrying whether he actually meant that's what you get with $150k/year income anyway. Another idea : for a one-time $150k purchase, buy a one-car garage near SF and live in there (semi-clandestinely).
^^^^ No family with kids, I presume :)
It's actually quite true in many states in the middle of the country. Even in California as long as you don't need to live in a large metropolitan area, you can get reasonably priced housing. Shop Oklahoma City OK, Pensacola FL and similar places on zillow.com and see for yourself. You can get a nice, nice house for no more than two year's salary.
And a completely barren job market for when shit hits the fan (which always does.) I live 9 hours away from Pensacola. I wouldn't move there at all, even if I earned the lottery. There is barely anything there in terms of jobs or education for my children. There are costs associated to living in flyover country that most people do not realize.
Last year my taxable income was $190000. You can buy shares in my employer. I wouldn't.
So, 16 years ago I paid a year's pay at the time (85k) in cash for a solid, but unattractive, house in a working class, decent suburb.
Three years ago, after I got a lot of pay rises, because good real engineers are well paid, I paid 300k cash to have it knocked down and a new one built. That is now worth 600k.
So which of you dummies in the IT game can't figure out how to do that?
Meanwhile, I bought a weekender. For cash. But that was mainly to annoy you lot.
Good for you. I doubt I would want to pull something like that (and I guess it depends on where you live.) For me to do that, I'd have to buy a house in a neighborhood that might be decent (in terms of citizens) but with a shitty school district.
Once I demolish (after all the permit costs) and build a new house (after all the costs of rebuilding), yeah I'd have a house that is nominally 2x the original price. But how much would I put in? And how much would my ROI would be (certainly not 2x the original cost)? And then what, put the kids in a shitty school or add the expense of a private school?
Nah, I'd rather pay the more expensive monthly price tag by living in a more expensive area, without the hassles of playing "construction firm" and without having to put my kids in a private school (because a good school is not optional for me.)
Your solution might work for you (kudos for you). It doesn't mean it is a general solution for others, specially others with kids.
LOL, only in Silicon Valley bizarro-world (or NYC, or DC). In sane parts of the country, the normal recommendation is three years' salary.
Exactly. And I doubt a sane bank would lend anyone for a house above 3-4 times one's salary unless a person has substantial savings (way above 1 years of GROSS salary.)
BA must be insane. $150k/yr will get you a $2M house, including taxes and insurance.
WTF? That'd put you way out of solvency. Responsible and manageable borrowing should put you at $450K-500K mortage tops with a $150k/year income. You are an idiot if you go above 3.5-4 your annual salary (and I highly doubt a bank will lend you that much unless you have boatloads of money in savings.)
Not when they're (a) optional and (b) used to obscure the point, they're not! It is goddamn dishonest to pretend that Silicon Valley tech-worker take-home pay, with gold-plated health care, a maxed out 401k (and maybe exercised stock options), and a metric ass-ton of other fringe benefits is in any way comparable to normal-person take-home pay that includes taxes, basically zero retirement savings (outside of social security) and fuck-all else.
They are optional if you if you think preparing for a rainy day in your waning years are optional. It's fucking not. And that's a testament of our crooked and out of control COL projected into the future and shitty health care system.
We have a "choose your poison situation", all of us. Put money into your retirement and suffer from cash flow issues today, or don't have a cash flow issue today, but ensure you will eat cat food when you cannot work anymore.
And that's a reality for most households making 6 figures. Imagine what's like for blue collar workers or poor people.
If we can to argue that retirement is optional, we might as well also argue that engaging in protein–energy malnutrition as a cost-savings measure is also optional. I'm being facetious obviously, but you get the point (or so I hope.)