California is a nice place, but has too many NIMBY cowards. They should be planning to replace San Onofre with a newer-generation reactor, not closing it down without plans for replacement.
You have the wrong approach. Buy five condos in the next crash and rent them out. Then live rent-free in your condo, using the monthly rent checks to cover your HOA, tax, and mortgage, hopefully with a few thousand per month left over.
Yeah. The Mac Pro will be modular, but if you want to replace a module yourself, you'll have to go to an Apple store and beg the "genii" to activate the stinking thing. On a Dell desktop? Plug and play.
Work-from-home and telecommute. Probably not in real life though, b-school flunkie types are too concerned with productivity metrics, "team play" and the like for this to work.
Standing desks? Fuck that. Standing stationary is just as unhealthy (in different ways) as sitting down. And it's actually torture some people with joint problems and fibromyalgia. Give people the choice to sit or stand and sure as hell don't judge them for it.
Startups are great, but they should have a real product, not just the latest fad app. Advice: learn a trade first, whether it's engineering, medicine, law, plumbing, electricity, or science. Then use your experience to start your own company.
Of course, you might be a unicorn with a brilliant idea just out of high school, but don't count on it.
That we set working hours and vacation time like every other developed country has done. Quality is life is more important than bosses being able to exploit people.
Are you sure you're going into it for the right reasons? If you are, you still have options.
(1) Pass the BMAT. Do whatever it takes. Take time off from work, do questions to a clock for hours every day until you get the timing right. Take Adderall or other focus-improving drugs.
(2) Look north or south of Hungary. Why are you only mentioning Hungary? Some Eastern European countries allow for their own entrance exams (in English, too!), which are more organic chemistry, chemistry, physics, and math instead of critical thinking.
(3) G8 countries? US/Canadian schools don't really care about your high school grades, they care about your university GPA and MCAT scores to get into 4-year programs. Take some post-baccalaureate university classes to raise your university GPA if that's what's required.
(4) There's also Russia and Belarus if you're feeling adventurous.
Again, depends on the exam. What if the professor gives you a pattern that you've never seen before, but should be able to analyze using information learned in class? A good exam measures critical thinking.
Did you ever work at a company where people were smart but still loved their work-life balance? Why do "smart" and "stays in the office till 8 pm" need to be tied together in US kultshah?
You go to expensive international student programs in said "less developed countries" which are more than happy to take your money if your grades are halfway decent (say above a 2.7 or 3.0 GPA).
It depends what the exams are like. I've had questions like "given this system, if you replace part A with a component of type B instead of type A, how will the behavior of the system change under X and Y conditions. Really forced you to think, since the functions of the systems and components were mentioned in class, but how a system with DIFFERENT components would work was up to the test-taker's imagination.
Another fun question in an engineering dynamics class. [Picture of a male elephant walking with a sinusoidal urine trail.] "The average elephant is 8 feet tall at the rear and walks at 15 mph. From this picture, calculate the approximate length of the elephant's penis."
If you're driving on a sheet of "solid ice" and not skidding off of it, you're probably not driving on solid ice. Most cars made after 2012 or so have traction/stability control, and one still sees stuck late-model cars. Physics is physics.
Physics is physics and friction is friction, regardless what is driving the vehicle. The solution? Don't salt the roads. Put down sand and winter tires or chains should be mandatory.
Salting is actually rare in cold-climate countries outside the US as well as cold states in the Western US (i.e. Idaho).
If "those assholes" take the knowledge back to China or Russia and get paid handsomely for it, good luck suing or prosecuting them if they stay outside of countries in the US sphere of influence.
Using them to protect trade secrets is one thing, using them to render former employees unemployable without risking lawsuits is unacceptable. The US in general needs stronger worker protection laws.
Drivers wouldn't be anonymous, since they'd have to pay the app. Passengers would be anonymous, same as with a "regular" taxi service. Yeah, yeah, it's less safe. Well: some crime is the price of freedom.
Craigslist is the best-designed major website out there. Clean, relatively simple, and fast. They've "modernized" it a bit since their original 1990s design, but not so much as to be obnoxious and slow. The only problem is that it requires Javascript to show contact info, so it doen't work well in text-mode browsers for the blind or disabled.
The worst are certain websites that put a big pop-up on the screen. "GET THE APP!!!" with a smaller link saying "continue with mobile browsing". If I wanted the app, I'd get it. Don't cripple my browsing experience to push your app, TYVM.
Companies will probably set a uniform policy worldwide in order to protect against lawsuits and just because it's easier to maintain one code base. At least, that's the hope.
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California is a nice place, but has too many NIMBY cowards. They should be planning to replace San Onofre with a newer-generation reactor, not closing it down without plans for replacement.
You have the wrong approach. Buy five condos in the next crash and rent them out. Then live rent-free in your condo, using the monthly rent checks to cover your HOA, tax, and mortgage, hopefully with a few thousand per month left over.
Yeah. The Mac Pro will be modular, but if you want to replace a module yourself, you'll have to go to an Apple store and beg the "genii" to activate the stinking thing. On a Dell desktop? Plug and play.
Work-from-home and telecommute. Probably not in real life though, b-school flunkie types are too concerned with productivity metrics, "team play" and the like for this to work.
Standing desks? Fuck that. Standing stationary is just as unhealthy (in different ways) as sitting down. And it's actually torture some people with joint problems and fibromyalgia. Give people the choice to sit or stand and sure as hell don't judge them for it.
Startups are great, but they should have a real product, not just the latest fad app. Advice: learn a trade first, whether it's engineering, medicine, law, plumbing, electricity, or science. Then use your experience to start your own company.
Of course, you might be a unicorn with a brilliant idea just out of high school, but don't count on it.
(In the US). AC is obviously not in the USA.
That we set working hours and vacation time like every other developed country has done. Quality is life is more important than bosses being able to exploit people.
No, it inspires hatred of the employer and co-workers in others, stress, and rage. Don't fall for the corporate bullshit about leadership.
Are you sure you're going into it for the right reasons? If you are, you still have options.
(1) Pass the BMAT. Do whatever it takes. Take time off from work, do questions to a clock for hours every day until you get the timing right. Take Adderall or other focus-improving drugs.
(2) Look north or south of Hungary. Why are you only mentioning Hungary? Some Eastern European countries allow for their own entrance exams (in English, too!), which are more organic chemistry, chemistry, physics, and math instead of critical thinking.
(3) G8 countries? US/Canadian schools don't really care about your high school grades, they care about your university GPA and MCAT scores to get into 4-year programs. Take some post-baccalaureate university classes to raise your university GPA if that's what's required.
(4) There's also Russia and Belarus if you're feeling adventurous.
Haha. Length at the time, not fully extended length :D
Again, depends on the exam. What if the professor gives you a pattern that you've never seen before, but should be able to analyze using information learned in class? A good exam measures critical thinking.
Look at provincial city med schools in Eastern Europe, not just Budapest. Also, what's a 4.7 GPA equivalent to in the US? US GPAs run 0 to 4.
Did you ever work at a company where people were smart but still loved their work-life balance? Why do "smart" and "stays in the office till 8 pm" need to be tied together in US kultshah?
You go to expensive international student programs in said "less developed countries" which are more than happy to take your money if your grades are halfway decent (say above a 2.7 or 3.0 GPA).
It depends what the exams are like. I've had questions like "given this system, if you replace part A with a component of type B instead of type A, how will the behavior of the system change under X and Y conditions. Really forced you to think, since the functions of the systems and components were mentioned in class, but how a system with DIFFERENT components would work was up to the test-taker's imagination.
Another fun question in an engineering dynamics class. [Picture of a male elephant walking with a sinusoidal urine trail.] "The average elephant is 8 feet tall at the rear and walks at 15 mph. From this picture, calculate the approximate length of the elephant's penis."
If you're driving on a sheet of "solid ice" and not skidding off of it, you're probably not driving on solid ice. Most cars made after 2012 or so have traction/stability control, and one still sees stuck late-model cars. Physics is physics.
Physics is physics and friction is friction, regardless what is driving the vehicle. The solution? Don't salt the roads. Put down sand and winter tires or chains should be mandatory. Salting is actually rare in cold-climate countries outside the US as well as cold states in the Western US (i.e. Idaho).
If "those assholes" take the knowledge back to China or Russia and get paid handsomely for it, good luck suing or prosecuting them if they stay outside of countries in the US sphere of influence.
Using them to protect trade secrets is one thing, using them to render former employees unemployable without risking lawsuits is unacceptable. The US in general needs stronger worker protection laws.
Directories are so 1990s. Real users use OneDrive and the "Cloud."
Drivers wouldn't be anonymous, since they'd have to pay the app. Passengers would be anonymous, same as with a "regular" taxi service. Yeah, yeah, it's less safe. Well: some crime is the price of freedom.
Maybe I'm boring, but I've seldom gone over the 2gb on my plan.
Craigslist is the best-designed major website out there. Clean, relatively simple, and fast. They've "modernized" it a bit since their original 1990s design, but not so much as to be obnoxious and slow. The only problem is that it requires Javascript to show contact info, so it doen't work well in text-mode browsers for the blind or disabled.
The worst are certain websites that put a big pop-up on the screen. "GET THE APP!!!" with a smaller link saying "continue with mobile browsing". If I wanted the app, I'd get it. Don't cripple my browsing experience to push your app, TYVM.
Companies will probably set a uniform policy worldwide in order to protect against lawsuits and just because it's easier to maintain one code base. At least, that's the hope.