Benefits:
Lots of things to do recreationally/hobby-wise. Pretty much any interest you may have there’s a good chance you’ll find some group doing it. First class restaurants, etc.
People are generally friendly/laid-back. A friend from Romania remarked that it felt very European to her compared to anywhere else she knew in the US.
Overall a beautiful area to live in despite the “doom loop” rhetoric you hear.
Drawbacks: Cost of living. Housing is expensive. Utilities are expensive. Groceries are probably on par with other areas. So depending on if your assignment is going to pay for your relocation and living expenses it may or may not be worth it from that aspect.
From the textbook's website, it looks like they're coming out with a v2 soon to match the second edition and the course is available through UC Berkeley's open enrollment.
I think at this stage I would look to major in something that interests you and give you a degree you can immediately apply upon graduation (e.g. computer science) but take all the pre-med classes to keep that option open. But also, talk to people in the field, find out what they like/don't like and if they had to do it all over again, what they would do.d In the end though, it's really hard to optimize any given career path so don't put too much pressure upon yourself if you feel like you don't have a clear idea of what you want to do, just keep exploring as much as you can. As for what to do if your startup fails, you would either start another or get a job.
1. I'd like some indicator of when a move is "charged up" instead of having to click on it.
2. In the dialog for the message "The move you want to use is not charged up yet.Click 'ok' and then select another move." the button actually says "close" not OK.
You can try doing a press release, for example through PrWeb or similar, that will send your announcement to multiple outlets that might write it up if it fits their audience. It’s kind of a shotgun approach though.
I've done a few press releases for my products over the last 20 years. Unless you are already very famous or are doing something very innovative, it is almost certainly a complete waste of time and money.
Our response to a global pandemic was a disaster other than getting the vaccines made. The most recent large scale collective effort to defeat an existential threat prior to that was probably WWII. We’ve gotten pretty good at waging war but I fear that’s probably where our evolution in the matter of dealing with existential threats will probably remain.
I would argue that numerous initiative to ban highly dangerous substances such as the Montreal Protocol banning ozone layer damaging refrigerant gasses have been successful in this period.
Instead it appears to me that global collaboration actually stalled after the fall the Soviet Union and the end of great power competition.
SO2 emissions are still strongly trending downward globally (e.g. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/so-emissions-by-world-reg... ). The change is especially dramatic in the US, per EPA reports. Conifers in my neighbourhood look remarkably healthier than what I recall from my childhood as a result.
> Our response to a global pandemic was a disaster other than getting the vaccines made
What would you have liked to have seen?
And out of curiosity, what should be the response to the 700k heart disease, 600k cancer, 227k accidental, 165k stroke, 147k respiratory and 101k diabetes deaths each year in the USA? (N.B. COVID sits at 186k in 2023)
I can remember when object-oriented programming was all the rage and if you didn't see the light you were just too stuck in your ways apparently. I imagine back then Dave may have had some similars arguments with the senior programmers he worked with at the time as you did with him. You didn't cause his terminal illness.
It's funny because I had been the guy pushing OO on everyone thinking they are bad if they don't get it. Now I am serially defeating proposals to use, as the OP puts it, more "modern" solutions, because the young people proposing them are basically me back then. Inexperienced and impressionable.
I would expect most software dev jobs to hit the maximum payout but assuming that Walmart/helpdesk job will always be there and you can cover health insurance then it seems to me it would be better to take the unemployment first and get paid to send off a few resumes and have the time to do other things instead and then get the help desk job if you need to.
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