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Unfortunately, I sold it to some Japanese dude I met on the Internet. I talked to him once when his check for $50 didn't clear, and he didn't sound Japanese at all.
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I wonder if there would be a culture shock not acceptable to a Silicon Valley type. That authenticity of the Yinzers in the Burgh might be a little off putting for a California type.
Nah. People are people. The "Silicon Valley type" is a stereotype which Silicon Valley types try to emulate because they think that's what's expected of them. Put 'em in Pittsburgh, and in no time they'll be puking and getting in fights in the parking lot at Three Rivers before a Steelers game. They'll be putting up Porky Chedwick Tribute websites and wearing Willie Stargell jersey's to work.
The people in Pittsburgh are great. The music scene is historic and has is very active. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but when I move somewhere, I try to immerse myself in the local culture. Being from Chicago, I didn't have any trouble at all adapting to Pittsburgh when I spent time there (Go Tartans!).
The "current crop" is not a monolithic block. Maybe your blissful ignorance is good for your blood pressure or something, in that case congratulations. Well I hope it's not too rude a shock to your system when reality sets in.
I've taught in high schools that cover the socio-economic spectrum. Poor inner-city schools on Chicago's South Side and wealthy prep schools. Over the course of 20 years. I actually remember my own high school.
Overall, these kids are better than we were. They have qualities we lacked.
but we lack Little Techie programs across the USA.
That's not true. I was at a high school in a relatively poor neighborhood recently, and they had a maker space with a 3d printer and water cutter and all kinds of cool shit that I didn't recognize. There were a bunch of kids that might have otherwise been out slinging dope or gangbanging and they were doing their maker space thing and a bunch of kids were working on some raspberry Pi projects and when these kids graduate they're going to be coming for your job. I'm told that there are programs like this all over the country (or at least in states that value education).
Don't worry about the kids. The current crop of young'ns is more capable, more poised and better educated than any of us were. Despite the fact that they've been failed by the generations before them being unable to make anything like thoughtful decisions about the future, they're getting ready to take over whether you're ready to step aside or not. They're not afraid to put themselves out there and they're not afraid to get their hands dirty.
This article is a press release. It comes on a day when Tesla Motors stock declined over 11%. In one day. Elon is trying to staunch the bleeding by emailing this "story" out to every single media outlet on the planet.
I've seen Slashdot editors fall for press releases before. It's not even that uncommon. But this one is so much more blatant than the others that it should be noted, and BeauHD should be a little bit ashamed. At least, Musk should have been required to buy an advertisement here before this manufactured story was posted on the Slashdot front page.
As "Computer Buyer Joe", I have found that the best approach is to get my computer nerd nephew to hook me up with the good shit. I tell him how much I can spend and which games I want to play and he does the rest. Then, I throw him $50, which he immediately spends on oxycontin or rap records or whatever it is that kids spend money on these days.
Believe it or not, groceries are much cheaper in California all across the board, including meat, dairy, and as you would expect, produce. And there's a lot of produce that just isn't available in Dallas or Houston.
Also, wine is a lot cheaper in California. You can get a fantastic bottle of wine for under $10, and if you watch the sales, under $5. And I'm talking about real wine with a cork and everything.
I'm sorry to hear your experience with Houston was so terrible!
I really wanted to love it. Teaching at Rice was fantastic and as I said, the people are great. Also, the food trucks are very good. Not being able to just sit outside for most of the year was a stopper for me. The lack of beauty was a problem. I hated having to get on an expressway to go 3 miles. The air is very polluted. Finally, Hurricane Harvey put an exclamation point on it for me. Houston and I finally had to agree to part ways. Now I live in a temperate place where the only downside I've seen so far is that housing is expensive. There's a great school here too and it's not in a state run by Republicans.
Don't go to Houston or Austin. Houston is the armpit of America. You have to air condition 10 months out of the year and you can't enjoy being outside because it's over 100 degrees F with 90% humidity most of the time. There's ungodly traffic and bugs and it's the ugliest city I've ever seen. The only reason to move to Houston is if you have a plan to go there for a year, make a lot of money and then leave. It's awful. The people there are great and the food is great, but it's one big expressway and everything is 30 min to an hour away. I lived in the best part of town and it still was complete shit. There were concerts in the Miller Outdoor Theater all the time, but you couldn't go because you felt like you were suffocating. And, they have hurricanes, which I learned about first hand back at the end of August. Also, there are mosquitoes the size of pigeons.that will attack you if you so much as open your car window (not that you would open your car window because it's stifling outside.
Austin is much nicer, but it's also very hot and very crowded and the traffic is awful and it's played out. If you want to go to Austin, take a trip there in December or something, but unless you've got something going at SXSW. Avoid at all costs. Also, it's in the State of Texas, which might sound good because there's no state income tax, but food is a lot more expensive and you'll spend a ton on utilities to air condition your place and you will be unhappy because it's a very ugly place. Like Houston, most people are nice, but few assholes there are run the state.
Pittsburgh is better. Yes, there's an awful winter, but the people are authentic, you can afford to live there, it has a great music scene and actual history and neighborhoods and human beings outside. And it's a short drive to something beautiful. Unlike Houston. You know how in most cities you can drive for an hour and you'll be out in the country and it will be nice? You can drive for an entire day from Houston and not see anything nice. I'm serious. Nothing but oil refineries in two directions, swamp in another direction and scrub in the other direction.
Don't undervalue the importance of living somewhere beautiful.
Who the hell shops at Saks Fifth Avenue or Lord & Taylor, anyway? If someone is willing to pay $650 for a shitty blue track suit that looks like one you could pick up for $3 at a local Goodwill store, then whoever hacked the database could probably make better use of their money.
You don't believe me, you say? Nobody would pay $650 for what looks like a bad K-Mart track suit, you say?
"A Vox analysis of hiring records for seasonal workers at three Trump properties in New York and Florida revealed that only one out of 144 jobs went to a US worker from 2016 to the end of 2017. Foreign guest workers with H-2B visas got the rest. The H-2B visa program allows seasonal, non-agricultural employers — like hotels and ski resorts — to hire foreign workers when they can’t find American ones. The Trump administration temporarily expanded this guest-worker program in 2017 while restricting other avenues of legal immigration, including the H-1B program for high-skilled workers."
True - but what Congress-critters think does not necessarily reflect what the court will think. Supreme Court justices have lifetime appointments for a reason.
Oh, I absolutely agree. I just wanted to let the fine people of Slashdot know which flavor of congress-critter was shafting them this time.
The Cloud Act was introduced as an attachment to the 2018 spending bill by Rep. Doug Collins [R-GA-9] on 2-6-2018. It was approved by the Judiciary Rules Committee on a party-line vote. As in, only the Republicans on the committee voted for it.
No. I did my doctorate almost that long ago, and it was not the same. I went to a "hard" grad school, but I was still smoking weed and getting laid occasionally. Plus, I graduated without a dime of debt thanks to being a TA and I got a tenure track gig within a year of graduation. Stuff like that is super rare in academia today. The whole game has changed. I hit the tail end of the gravy train.
Six-figure school debt, PTSD from having a PhD advisor who hates you, only job prospects are adjunct positions for sub-minimum wage or research assistant, both without benefits. Parents who expect you to be on top of the world now that you have a PhD. Plus, you've spent the last 4-6 years in a library studying and haven't seen the sun since you started your Masters.
Do you really have to figure out why post-docs have depression?
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Facebook must die.
That's just, like, your opinion man.
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I created motherfucking Bitcoin. I invented all that crypto bullshit and how you use your video card to GET PAID. It was all my idea.
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Nah. People are people. The "Silicon Valley type" is a stereotype which Silicon Valley types try to emulate because they think that's what's expected of them. Put 'em in Pittsburgh, and in no time they'll be puking and getting in fights in the parking lot at Three Rivers before a Steelers game. They'll be putting up Porky Chedwick Tribute websites and wearing Willie Stargell jersey's to work.
The people in Pittsburgh are great. The music scene is historic and has is very active. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but when I move somewhere, I try to immerse myself in the local culture. Being from Chicago, I didn't have any trouble at all adapting to Pittsburgh when I spent time there (Go Tartans!).
I've taught in high schools that cover the socio-economic spectrum. Poor inner-city schools on Chicago's South Side and wealthy prep schools. Over the course of 20 years. I actually remember my own high school.
Overall, these kids are better than we were. They have qualities we lacked.
That's not true. I was at a high school in a relatively poor neighborhood recently, and they had a maker space with a 3d printer and water cutter and all kinds of cool shit that I didn't recognize. There were a bunch of kids that might have otherwise been out slinging dope or gangbanging and they were doing their maker space thing and a bunch of kids were working on some raspberry Pi projects and when these kids graduate they're going to be coming for your job. I'm told that there are programs like this all over the country (or at least in states that value education).
Don't worry about the kids. The current crop of young'ns is more capable, more poised and better educated than any of us were. Despite the fact that they've been failed by the generations before them being unable to make anything like thoughtful decisions about the future, they're getting ready to take over whether you're ready to step aside or not. They're not afraid to put themselves out there and they're not afraid to get their hands dirty.
My mistake. It was 307 five days ago. It's 251 today.
I'll let you do the math.
This article is a press release. It comes on a day when Tesla Motors stock declined over 11%. In one day. Elon is trying to staunch the bleeding by emailing this "story" out to every single media outlet on the planet.
I've seen Slashdot editors fall for press releases before. It's not even that uncommon. But this one is so much more blatant than the others that it should be noted, and BeauHD should be a little bit ashamed. At least, Musk should have been required to buy an advertisement here before this manufactured story was posted on the Slashdot front page.
As "Computer Buyer Joe", I have found that the best approach is to get my computer nerd nephew to hook me up with the good shit. I tell him how much I can spend and which games I want to play and he does the rest. Then, I throw him $50, which he immediately spends on oxycontin or rap records or whatever it is that kids spend money on these days.
Yeah, for what you get, it is.
Believe it or not, groceries are much cheaper in California all across the board, including meat, dairy, and as you would expect, produce. And there's a lot of produce that just isn't available in Dallas or Houston.
Also, wine is a lot cheaper in California. You can get a fantastic bottle of wine for under $10, and if you watch the sales, under $5. And I'm talking about real wine with a cork and everything.
Also, property taxes are higher in Texas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://qz.com/1031027/the-us-...
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
http://thehill.com/homenews/ad...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...
http://www.newsweek.com/americ...
I really wanted to love it. Teaching at Rice was fantastic and as I said, the people are great. Also, the food trucks are very good. Not being able to just sit outside for most of the year was a stopper for me. The lack of beauty was a problem. I hated having to get on an expressway to go 3 miles. The air is very polluted. Finally, Hurricane Harvey put an exclamation point on it for me. Houston and I finally had to agree to part ways. Now I live in a temperate place where the only downside I've seen so far is that housing is expensive. There's a great school here too and it's not in a state run by Republicans.
Don't go to Houston or Austin. Houston is the armpit of America. You have to air condition 10 months out of the year and you can't enjoy being outside because it's over 100 degrees F with 90% humidity most of the time. There's ungodly traffic and bugs and it's the ugliest city I've ever seen. The only reason to move to Houston is if you have a plan to go there for a year, make a lot of money and then leave. It's awful. The people there are great and the food is great, but it's one big expressway and everything is 30 min to an hour away. I lived in the best part of town and it still was complete shit. There were concerts in the Miller Outdoor Theater all the time, but you couldn't go because you felt like you were suffocating. And, they have hurricanes, which I learned about first hand back at the end of August. Also, there are mosquitoes the size of pigeons.that will attack you if you so much as open your car window (not that you would open your car window because it's stifling outside.
Austin is much nicer, but it's also very hot and very crowded and the traffic is awful and it's played out. If you want to go to Austin, take a trip there in December or something, but unless you've got something going at SXSW. Avoid at all costs. Also, it's in the State of Texas, which might sound good because there's no state income tax, but food is a lot more expensive and you'll spend a ton on utilities to air condition your place and you will be unhappy because it's a very ugly place. Like Houston, most people are nice, but few assholes there are run the state.
Pittsburgh is better. Yes, there's an awful winter, but the people are authentic, you can afford to live there, it has a great music scene and actual history and neighborhoods and human beings outside. And it's a short drive to something beautiful. Unlike Houston. You know how in most cities you can drive for an hour and you'll be out in the country and it will be nice? You can drive for an entire day from Houston and not see anything nice. I'm serious. Nothing but oil refineries in two directions, swamp in another direction and scrub in the other direction.
Don't undervalue the importance of living somewhere beautiful.
Who the hell shops at Saks Fifth Avenue or Lord & Taylor, anyway? If someone is willing to pay $650 for a shitty blue track suit that looks like one you could pick up for $3 at a local Goodwill store, then whoever hacked the database could probably make better use of their money.
You don't believe me, you say? Nobody would pay $650 for what looks like a bad K-Mart track suit, you say?
https://www.saksfifthavenue.co...
Try again.
OK.
https://qz.com/1031027/the-us-...
Don't tell Trump this. His businesses hire lots of immigrants, legal and otherwise.
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/13/...
[Note: this article is from last month]
Oh, I absolutely agree. I just wanted to let the fine people of Slashdot know which flavor of congress-critter was shafting them this time.
The Cloud Act was introduced as an attachment to the 2018 spending bill by Rep. Doug Collins [R-GA-9] on 2-6-2018. It was approved by the Judiciary Rules Committee on a party-line vote. As in, only the Republicans on the committee voted for it.
Just thought you ought to know.
You were warned.
No. I did my doctorate almost that long ago, and it was not the same. I went to a "hard" grad school, but I was still smoking weed and getting laid occasionally. Plus, I graduated without a dime of debt thanks to being a TA and I got a tenure track gig within a year of graduation. Stuff like that is super rare in academia today. The whole game has changed. I hit the tail end of the gravy train.
Six-figure school debt, PTSD from having a PhD advisor who hates you, only job prospects are adjunct positions for sub-minimum wage or research assistant, both without benefits. Parents who expect you to be on top of the world now that you have a PhD. Plus, you've spent the last 4-6 years in a library studying and haven't seen the sun since you started your Masters.
Do you really have to figure out why post-docs have depression?
You're right. There's just the protected ones on US-101
http://www.keyt.com/news/santa...
Anyway, I was thinking of HWY 1, which most definitely has bike lanes (at least here on the Central Coast).
That is so out of date. There are no roaches, because we all vape our herb here in California.