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This is the main topic in The Innovators Dilemma, it's a pretty interesting book if you like this sort of graduation of companies

I don't believe virtual learning will be widely used long-term. I might be biased, coming from a mostly engineering school, but there is a lot of vital lab equipment needed for the curriculum, not to mention that social networking and connections are essential to most careers going forward, and I don't see that transferring over in the same way

Agreed on i3. Are there any Ubuntu distributions that have i3 OOTB with reasonable integrations?

I definitely do. One of the main differences is this specifically is not mass-marketed, and I agree that anybody would would have the capability of doing this should already have the knowledge to not fuck it up. I'm just saying its a false equivalency between the two

My university does have a co-op, but I just applied directly (doing a Math degree, so the Liberal Arts college doesn't have a co-op).

Both of those have fairly obvious consequences. I can definitely see people using this and not recognizing it can put other people in harms way.

Tesla reached out to me in early February about applying for a position in either Summer or Fall (Supply Chain Automation), and I took their exam. I did very well on it, but haven't heard back yet. I'm assuming they put the kibosh on hiring interns.

I already have one lined up for the summer at Vail Systems, and I recently received an email saying they are moving things online, and the internship may be entirely online if push comes to shove.

I also have my own unlaunched startup in the bank in case all other things fall through, but I don't have the time to commit once launched.

I'd opt for a Math or Physics minor. The more you can intersect with different fields, the more you stand out in applications. Wheel and deal some projects on the side if that isn't your jam.

Also in general, college is about growth and experimentation. Having a degree is definitely useful, but not enjoying getting a degree sounds like an awful waste of time.

I doubt they would do that

Microsoft is behind an initiative called ID2020, which is exactly this. I'd imagine it'll only see use in impoverished nations that don't have proper identification ( he details in Inside Bills Brain on Netflix that a major hurdle to get over is Islamic groups intentionally withdrawing from vaccinations and lying about it)

Exactly. If you knew how to best allocate resources in your life, you probably wouldn't be in a situation where you need UBI.

That's still USD at the end of the day. That just sells it to somebody else who wants to use it as an investment (unless things have changed since I've last looked into it). I'm not saying it wouldn't work, but the lack of people actually accepting it as payment is preventing it from being treated as a currency

You can't use Bitcoin to buy food, pay rent, or commute. If people were interested in long term storage, then the USD would be down and Gold would be up, instead of the other way around.

This answer isn't entirely practical, but it might be moreso in the coming years.

I believe one of the most compelling reasons to go vegan is to generally reduce the proximity between animals and people, which curbs the likelihood that something like this could happen in the future.

On a more practical level, just save a lot of money. If you can pay for everything you need, the recession doesn't matter (assuming things like civilization collapse, etc don't happen).

Maybe replying with "companies" was too broad, but within the context of airlines its correct

Companies are only profitable because they serve their users better than their competitors.

Benjamin Franklin knew Smith personally, and was present at the drafting of the Constitution, so there is at most one degree of separation. I haven't actually read Wealth of Nations myself, but its worth noting that a lot of compromises had to be made on all sides to encourage states to actually join (IIRC the income tax was originally illegal because the initial wording implicitly said that slavery couldn't be taxed out of existence, and this was intentionally worded to encourage southern states to join).

To be fair, within the Constitution there is a clause where the Gold standard is required for all debts and tender (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_Clause), of which Thomas Jefferson wrote the majority. Even if he didn't say it himself, the sentiment was strong enough between all parties that it was included in the beginning.

If you are just starting out, I have found Expo + React Native to be a really nice development environment. What little I have used of Android Studio, it seems overly complicated for a beginner.

I'm pretty sure he meant that Uber drivers' pay is subsidized through VC funding, not that Uber rides are practical for people with a lower income.

Assuming we are talking about companies, then any value at all is derived from somebody using it. Ideas are fundamentally worthless without an implementation, but that's just because they are both needed for any value whatsoever.

Also writing code and getting to MVP is a prefilter for dedication

If we are talking in absolutes, then no it probably won't reach everybody. However, the technology is becoming more and more practical to use, so its including a larger number of people as time goes on. Regardless, its a lot more practical than convincing billions of people to change their standards of living, especially in a country like America.

Maybe DoorDash wasn't a good analogy. I volunteered on a CSA in high school (Greater STL area, so fairly close to you), and honestly that model is surprisingly feasible. Supply chains produce a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, and the closer you are to your food production, the better it is for everybody involved.

I would argue that more technology is going to make our current use of those resources a lot more efficient going forward. Solar panels can mostly remove the need for an electrical grid for most people. Internet via StarLink (soon) will remove the geographical need for that. Roads are non-negotiable, sure, but they're pretty inconsequential. Things like DoorDash and Amazon are going to drastically reduce the number of grocery stores per capita going forward, or at least curb new construction.

St. Louis, Missouri for two reasons

1. It has some pretty decent hospitals

2. Who actually wants to live in STL?

source: I lived in STL

I'm working on a startup called Longform, which helps book conversations between people and various organizations and, with the consent of both parties, forwards it to podcast feeds of both parties. One of the projects I've considered is creating a marketplace of other voices you can use, and directly stream that over the call. The primary motivation was to remove some apprehensions about hearing your own voice, help with anonymity, make them more comfortable with marking the material public, etc. Also its pretty whimsical so that's always good

As a personal rule, I use test versions of the real APIs (or another instance of the API if a testing version isn't provided) on the CICD, and I use stubbed versions locally. Main motivation was that race conditions can happen between the two, and there is only one CICD, but many developers. I change the interfaces through feature flags/macros at compile time

EDIT: What I'm working on currently doesn't have a hardware component to it, so this might not be practical in the future

I can't access the Google Groups (#418, don't have permissions). I'll join the Slack

Blocking Tor and IP ranges might be sufficient. CloudFlare might offer this as a service, but I'm not sure. I'd imagine using a third party would legally put you in the clear, but again IANAL

One feature I would like to see is the option to create multiple test environments. I have one dedicated for the CICD, and ideally each person testing locally would have their own API key they can use however they wish.