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Not only are you making a lot of assumptions here, you have a woeful ignorance of Chicago neighborhoods but throw out names of neighborhoods like you're an expert (perhaps obtained from listening to Drill records or something).

Also, Beverly is one of the most integrated neighborhoods in Chicago, and it isn't even majority Black, so not sure why you even mention it. It also isn't 'adjacent' to Bronzeville unless you ignore all of the neighborhoods between them.

I agree. That part was way off base.

Perhaps you aren't familiar with the term. Graduate Student = someone enrolled in a Masters Program, Post doc, PHD program, etc.

This is quite different from a using a recent Bootcamp grad, likely without any industry experience, as a TA in a Software Dev Bootcamp. Especially because the main purpose of this is just to inflate job placement statistics.

"TAs are TAs, all colleges have them; they do not replace full instructors, but some of them are worth their weight in gold due to their student empathy."

Lol. TAs in colleges are graduate students. They aren't undergraduates who can't find a job.

You can argue about the value of traditional education.

But I think you would be hard pressed to find a university, even a crappy one, where it's up to the students to TA themselves, there are 100 students to one professor, and the curriculum constantly changes in the middle of a semester. So it's not quite accurate to try and compare Lambda to a traditional univeristy.

But congrats on your success in career changing. It begs the question of whether you could've done that on your own without attending a boot camp.

That might be true if the company was honest. But this was clearly fraud. So go ahead and blame the victim.

People who try to draw historical analogies to AI replacing humans say things like:

"cars replaced horse drawn carriages. But we managed to adapt to that, the carriage drivers got new jobs."

My dudes. We are the HORSES being replaced in this scenario.

lol you nailed it

I don't see it as a jab at the Czech Republic. But I think it is highly unusual for a CEO to be based out of a country that doesn't have any kind of Company HQ or significant base of operations, and which is 7 hours ahead of the TZ of the Company HQ based in Chicago.

I mean, that arrangement might work for some kind of employees, but for a CEO in this case it's a bit odd I guess

You know who else was a "a highly regulated public company with regular disclosures"?

Enron

Why the vomit emoji after mentioning ERB templates? It's just HTML with ruby sprinkled throughout. If that's the best solution for the job, why use React or whatever flavor of the month JS framework instead?

This is pretty rich. I'd argue the worst kind of censorship is getting murdered/disappeared by a totalitarian government for speaking out against them. Kind of like what happens to critics of Putin, Snowden's current patron. But hey, I guess getting some mean tweets directed at you is pretty bad too.

Anyone appreciate the irony that Snowden's posts are probably monitored/vetted by the KGB?

lol

The field of web dev is so vast and nebulous, the idea that you can't learn anything new or that you've reached a permanent plateau in your career doesn't add up.

Also, Salesforce development is a specialized field. What you're basically saying is that in the entire, vast field of web development you can learn anything new or find anything interesting to do, so you want to move into something much more specialized/narrow in focus?

Can you provide some more details on what you're currently doing?

The amount of entitlement in the tech industry is astounding.

This person is complaining about how Microsoft didn't enjoy this prank, which involved hours of planning (during working hours I assumed), cost actual $$$ (through printing these boxes), pissed off the Company's suppliers (by delivering fake products), and in which the entire point was poke fun at the Company as being a mediocre copy-cat?

Jeez, people really need to develop a sense of humor!

/s

Anyone else get a sense that something similar is happening with Elon Musk? Guy seems to be unraveling

I don't know if you read the article. But there were people trying to intervene, namely his family, and people calling the police to check in on him. However, the people who were on his payroll made an effort to prevent this stuff, and Tony himself saw any kind of intervention as a kind of betrayal.

So generalizing this example and applying it to US culture is off base.

I wonder how the rise of deepfakes will impact this topic.

As deepfakes become more believable and prevalent, celebrities will be able to just label any kind of sex-tape type leak as a deepfake. So hopefully this scumbag's business model is destroyed.

Well the value of any asset depends on the value that people assign to it -- it's all subjective if you really get in it.

However, I wouldn't accept bitcoin as a method of payment because I'm not confident that people will agree to a completely different value in a very short time frame. Meaning will it be 50k next week? 5k? Who knows!

Yeah but no one uses these things as a form of payment/currency. Those are non-monetary assets.

Ironically, as the market cap and price per coin increase, I grow more and more skeptical of bitcoin!

Bitcoin made a lot of sense when I first read about it in 2011. Back then I feel like it was primarily used as an anonymous payment method. Think dark web/silk road type stuff. I certainly don't endorse that behavior, but bitcoin as a payment method made a lot of sense.

Bitcoin makes 0 sense to me as an investment. It's pure speculation with no underlying intrinsic value. It's the Dutch Tulips 10.0 basically.

And now because the value of bitcoin is unbelievably volatile, it now makes 0 sense as a means of payment.

> Democrats are nearly as bad.

I mean, after supporting the reversal of a fair and free election, leading to a violent insurrection, anyone who still engages in this 'both sider-ism' is basically a lost cause at this point.

I far respect people who at least pick a side than continue the 'both sides are equally bad' argument

Yeah, I mean some people smoke all of their lives and live to be 90 and die of natural causes. Doesn't mean that smoking isn't incredibly dangerous and bad for you.

edit: this is agreement with the original comment, not sure why I'm being down voted. Just highlighting how outliers can exist, but it doesn't reflect on the danger of the underlying activity in general

I'm all for re-thinking drug policy, but normalizing heroin use? Hell no. It's gonna catch up to this guy one day -- he says he's good now but just wait until he feels like he needs to stop.

Re: Eloquent JavaScript. I tried to read it when starting on my JS learning path, and I quickly grew frustrated.

It may be the perfect match for you -- but all I want to say is, if you get frustrated with it, you're not alone! Don't be afraid to try a different resource to get started.

However, I've revisited the book and I enjoy it a lot more after becoming more familiar with the language

The article clearly states that many natural gas plants were knocked out due to the cold.

So why aren't you asking "maybe having more nuclear instead of natural gas would have helped?"

Since nuclear uses water, which freezes, the reason why the gas plants were knocked out, maybe the problem isn't the power source itself but the lack of weatherization?!

>An impartial cost-benefit analysis needs to be done which is sadly impossible for someone whose funding comes from the deep pockets of Wall Street and institutional investors.

The link is to an academic paper that literally performs an impartial cost-benefit analysis of SPACs based on publicly available information, and concludes that the way SPACs are currently structured are a pretty crap deal apart from those who are able to get in early.

You mention underwriting fees, and the paper makes a big emphasis to emphasize the implicit costs of SPACs (i.e. all of the dilution) that people ignore.

Also, I'm not sure where the idea comes that SPACs are 'anti-wall street'. The sponsors and investors are some of the largest Wall Street Institutions out there (large Hedge Funds)

However, there are different ways of doing SPACs and the paper mentions a recent SPAC that gets rid of some of the excesses that end up screwing over the post-merger investors

I didn't know a great deal about SPACs, but it looks like the real winners are the initial Sponsors and IPO investors, while the losers are the suckers who pay shares after the SPAC merges with the target company.

Let's examine how convoluted the SPAC process is. First, a SPAC raises money through an IPO that it will use to merge with a target company. Then, when the SPAC finds a target and proposes a merger, many of the initial IPO investors redeem their investment at a handsome guaranteed return....so then the SPAC has to go out and raise more money through private placements?!?

What?! Isn't the whole point of the SPAC to raise funds to complete the merger?

As a rule of thumb, the more convoluted things get in finance, the more nefarious the intentions

Last-gen consoles? If it wasn't for the most recent delay of release date, Cyberpunk 2077 would've been released before PS5 and the new Xbox were even available for purchase. You're acting like people are trying to play this game on an NES.

If the game ain't gonna work on a certain console, don't sell it for that console. Plain and simple. Or if you're going to release it anyway, at least let gaming critics review it and let the public make an informed decision, which CDPR deliberately didn't do.

I'm baffled as to why so many people are defending this incredibly shady business practice by CDPR.