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For you maybe. Probably not for Elon Musk.

Some sites do not require full blown identification for gambling when you use bitcoin. Coupled with the fact that it is a super convenient way to move large sums of money in and out (without waiting for wire transfer delays and whatnot), it’s a bit of a no brainer, at least in terms of convenience.

Because people actually use bitcoin. It’s heavily used for transactions for gray market activities (its very popular for online gambling transactions).

You can listen to podcasts with the watch series 2 and no phone, you just need wireless headphones.

It can be like that though. Bertrand Russell and his Principia Mathematica basically does exactly that.

It's not really poorly maintained either..

A lot of money?

As a counter argument, complicit nazis who did not have a direct hand in the gas chambers are also people, but I doubt many people sympathize with their ability to live their lives normally after the war.

No affiliation with Heroku but to be honest, that price is basically nothing compared to the salary of an engineer who maintains a system like that.

One of the big problems is that death happens to a wealth redistributing event. Imagine being a billionaire who can live forever, collecting rent indefinitely..

Didn't Tesla have this thing where they changed the battery from a model S in like 2 minutes? Scale that to a semi and the 40 hour charge time is a moot point.

TLDR; 'How do you make a million dollars in the coffee shop business?'

'It's easy, just start with ten'.

To be fair, that guy could have been an ass..

I did not get a CS degree because it turned out that I didn't need to (I am a software engineer at one of the 'big' Silicon Valley companies and have upward trajectory in my career). However, learning algorithms/data structures is not easy (as you mentioned) and if you aren't the type who can sit down with a bunch of textbooks over the weekend and bulldoze through them, then a structured setting which forces you to do exactly that may benefit you. And getting formally schooled will help you from having 'gaps' in your CS education which can (and probably will) happen if you opt not to get a degree (getting a CS degree doesn't mean you won't have gaps either, actually).

And no.. I don't think about going back into law. That field is horrible.. you get saddled with debt and then you make mediocre money (even at big law firms) with insane hours. It makes me sad that people feel desperate enough to even consider it. The only type of law that is probably economically worth pursuing is patent law (in terms of work life balance) but that's really some scum of the earth type stuff, especially with software patents..

I was on track to attend law school (accepted into a top5 US law school) before I detoured into programming. I consider it one of the wisest decisions of my life but, to be honest, the engineering landscape was quite different in 2011 (no such things as coding boot camps and such). Not sure how things would fare if the same decision were made today. Getting a degree sounds wise, since it would differentiate you from all of the other people trying to get into the field through boot camps and the like. If you can get into a school with good career fairs (and outreach internship programs) then that's probably your best bet.

Though I did not personally pursue a CS degree, I would still recommend it since it's quite difficult to learn algorithms, data structures, and lower level stuff (compilers, assembly, etc) without being in a program that forces you to learn it. All that stuff is necessary (but not sufficient) to land a gig at one of the top tech companies.

Also, if you opt out of the school route, it helps to try landing a gig at a crappier company so that you can basically get paid to learn stuff (but you should probably leave once you stop learning things, otherwise you may stagnate).

Err.. what?

Particles going into your lungs to produce cognitive effects is the basis behind smoking cigarettes, marijuana, meth, etc.

..like being able to use unfiltered internet?

It seems somewhat inline with epipens being 600 dollars..

Buying bitcoin counts as a transaction, so I'm not quite sure this proves what you think it proves..

Safety razors are very cheap. I believe the OP is referring to the profit model of companies like Gillette, extracting larger margins on a more consistent basis in trade for a marginal amount of ease of use for the consumer.

Why wouldn't you use azure instead?

This is basically as I understood it. Given the original comment which has thus been deleted, it wasn't a terribly far-fetched interpretation.

As a guy who joined the military in order to finance my undergraduate education via the GI Bill, I believe determination and grit were necessary for me to get where I am today. But I'm hardly arrogant enough believe that what was necessary for success is simultaneously sufficient for it.

Considering the rise in college costs, my GI Bill yesterday would cover exactly shit today.

And having empathy with people who aren't you helps a person not be an asshole, something I think you might benefit from considering.

'civvies' == 'civilian', as opposed to a soldier.

Usually larger companies have some sort of mentor ship program. If that's not true in your case, you can always find someone individually and do it unofficially.

Works for me.. have you tried it in incognito mode?

I'm not sure what you are saying corresponds with reality..

I'm pretty sure that ember had an internal object called Ember.State at one point and another called Ember.StateManager to (naturally) manage the relationships between states. This was a few years back so I can't say what's happened internally since then, but as far as I remember the router was intended to basically encapsulate the logic of an FSM.

I almost don't want to say this because I'd hate to discourage anyone from going back to school, but school isn't necessary or sufficient for having or gaining an education. Nowadays especially.

Having actual tangible wealth is not necessary. One can opt to join the army and fund college via the GI Bill, for instance.

And generally, opportunity cost tends not to be super high when you don't have skills or an education.