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Side note: your comment is one of the few times I've seen the code tag used for actual code on HN, rather than quotations or just indentation.

Lots of places like this. Check out this 3-bedroom with front porch, backyard, for $70,000 in Iowa: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/IA/pmf,pf_pt/87001013_...

If it's run by highly experienced biotech scientists, and not a 20-something Stanford dropout, sure.

I think the revenue from this would be a drop in a bucket compared to what Boeing pulls from conventional subsonic jetliners. Also, their entire engineering paradigm favors slow & conservative development. See how ULA has struggled to catch up to scrappy SpaceX.

This is the standard "engineers other than software are idiots" type HN FUD. For the record, Boom is staffed by aerospace veterans from the likes of Scaled Composites, P&W, Adam Aircraft, SpaceX and Boeing. https://boomsupersonic.com/about/ They might know thing or two about cost analysis.

They might be systems of belief. But they're not religions.

Oh, yeah. Solution is to never have kids.

You can just show up any time the gym is open. There are bouldering walls, just find a problem (what bouldering "routes" are called) that no one is on and go for it. Gym bouldering is usually pretty social, most people will be happy to answer any questions you have about anything, easier problems to try or techniques, etc.

You can combine approaches. I'm a "weekend warrior" with climbing, hiking etc., and my passion for those activities spurred me to train during the week on a schedule. I'd gym climb or work out at home with dumbbells, so that I could do harder objectives during the weekend.

This can be a gateway drug, and cause you to change your whole lifestyle and move to a place with such activities in abundance.

Most girls I've found are really into the ghosts and ghouls sets. Actually, even among adult women I've noticed a heightened interest/enjoyment in talking about paranormal/scary phenomena. I have no idea why.

I've heard the cold, hard truth about DS bootcamps is that your job prospects after completing one will be about the same as they were prior to the bootcamp.

Number One: In 1945, corporations paid 50% of federal taxes; now they pay about 5%.

Number Two: In 1900, 90% of Americans were self employed; now it's about 2%... It's called consolidation; strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time.

I think transport companies are doing largely beneficial work. They're making cars, airplanes, spacecraft safer and more efficient. This was my former field, and it was great to hear a story of how one customer used our product to rescue family members from a volcano, or how people just found them safe and useful. Like it was clear that what we made actually added enjoyment/utility to their lives. You just don't hear people say things like "thank god for Facebook" like they do about their cars, or a good rice cooker. Agriculture has potential too. FarmLogs is helping farmers grow more efficiently, competing against the goliath Climate Corporation (Monsanto). Weather tech - for startups there's Dark Sky and ClimaCell, of course there are the big players like Weather Channel and NOAA. FlexPort has massive potential in overhauling global freight.

I think in tech, meaningfulness is inversely correlated with sexiness at this point. Just focusing on industries with physical goods will yield markets that have less frivolity and pointlessness than say, social media.

Really? You don't think that any for-profit companies are doing anything meaningful? That's quite a leap. Surely there are physical products in your life that provide a tangible benefit, thereby making the labor behind them "meaningful." I mean things like your car, your house, your clothes. All of which involve tech these days.

Granted, the definition of "continent" is not rigorous, and depending on where you grew up in the world, you might have learned there are 5-7 "continents."

People are very strange these days.

I grew out of metal. And so should you.

It's a fair question. The mathematician Ted Kaczynski proposed depression to be largely a modern construct (emphasis mine):

> Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. It is well known that the rate of clinical depression had been greatly increasing in recent decades. We believe that this is due to disruption of the power process, as explained in paragraphs 59-76. But even if we are wrong, the increasing rate of depression is certainly the result of SOME conditions that exist in today's society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. (Yes, we know that depression is often of purely genetic origin. We are referring here to those cases in which environment plays the predominant role.)

The noble savage is just a fictional trope. No one denies that people in past times had materially worse-off lives than we do today. But they probably had more freedom. In medieval times, you might have half of the year off for vacation: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/08/29/why-a-medie.... You could largely do what you wanted, were not surveilled, and could live on your own as long as others around you weren't disturbed. The point isn't that it was a superior way of life, but it evokes a qualitative perspective on life. Would you rather live in perfect health for 100 years in prison, or as a diabetic paraplegic in the outside world for 40? What about 20? What about a prison that was full of your closest friends, versus a world of your enemies? Quality of life defies a mere "but healthcare, science, infrastructure etc. is better today!" metric that everyone on HN seems to stick to. There are profound cultural changes that we can't assess objectively. Culturally, emotionally, we may be worse off today. Our 60 years of wage slavery in windowless offices might seem unconscionable to a medieval peasant drinking mead all day by a stream with his friends, even if he ends up dying at 50.

> Also, as someone approaching middle-age, I would be taking my classes more seriously than many students 10 years younger than me.

Son, this isn't Animal House. Even at mid-tier universities, most students in engineering programs have been working hard their entire lives. Do you have the stamina to pound Red Bull for consecutive all-nighters? These kids do. Some of them have been amped on Adderall to eke out minimum GPA improvements since 10th grade. Engineering students are machines.

The immigrants running tiny ethnic places have done the sensible thing and relocated to the suburbs. Of course, in time they'll be priced out of there too. There's a new type of "food desert" emerging, maybe "foodie desert" describes it. It's when the only places that can exist in central districts are siege-type operations with extremely technical western cuisine that eventually converges to some weird bouquet of (bland) "subtle flavors" and vertical food in an empty white plate that everyone pretends is really good. While the immigrant food with gusto that makes you feel alive migrates farther away out of town.

Most CFD guys have aerospace engineering/physics backgrounds, not CS. Trust me, the coding is the EASIEST part of the field. It's almost an afterthought. CFD development, at the level where you are contributing novel work, is applied math. Nothing more, nothing less.

OP, your aspiration is possible but difficult. CFD is a rarefied field of heads-down, highly quantitative minds. If you were outstanding at math in HS then I say go for it. Going back to undergrad isn't a bad idea. You'd be a non-traditional student, but I knew a few of those when I was in undergrad who did well. You should be pretty comfortable in math through vector calculus and linear algebra; if you're really struggling, you might want to reconsider paths. You have to be ready for 3-4 years of hardcore aerospace engineering and math courses, which could be a tough transition. Good luck.

> The sad part is Snowbird is tracked within an hour after any snowfall

Is there any resort where this is not the case?

Not too long ago, we had this story, "Social Media is the New Smoking" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851057. The mathematician Ted Kaczynski said decades ago, "humans with technology is like an alcoholic with a barrel of wine."

He would not be a culture fit at any biotech startup, that's for sure. I love how at the end of the video, the Nobel laureate in medicine takes a long drag from a cigarette.

It chugged on a 2 GB csv for a personal project, but it was tolerable. I wouldn't use this machine for work.

My mid-2011 MacBook Air with 4 GB memory has been running really well. Occasionally Safari (the Metal version in High Sierra) gets slow, but it's still faster than Chrome. I've been using it for general casual computing and machine learning development with Jupyter Notebooks and haven't run into anything that would make me want to switch. I'll probably upgrade to a 2018 MacBook Pro with 8 GB memory when those come out.

We could build new universities. Take up the slack in all the excess PhD's, increasing the supply of good secondary education, and help stave off exploding tuition costs. Build it from scratch like Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, or Olin. Who is "we"? I dunno, some rich guy maybe.

Thus the Formics were defeated.

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