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> As more of the world is lifted out of poverty ICE powered transpo will become within reach.

I think, if EV prices keep falling like they have been, developing nations may skip ICE cars and jump straight to EVs (similar to how many nations 'skipped' landline phones and went straight to cellular)
Boot camp is a good supplement to college, not an alternative, so tell her to work hard and have fun, and ask lots of questions.
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The bigger issue is that thanks to our alliance, oil is mostly transacted in dollars.

Every nation state stockpiles pallets of $100 bills as a result. Cut that requirement and allow purchases in Euro, Rmb, etc and the people start unloading dollars.
No, Google does not use CloudFlare.
An engineer is a person who creates real world solutions to real world problems.

What matters is not how elegant your solution is, what matters is solving the problem. And doing it under cost and time constraints.

An engineer is first and foremost, a person focussed on the end goal, above all else.
I did one.

I HIGHLY suggest vetting the placement "statistics". For me, I just read 95% get a job, went to the open house, listened to a couple "rah rah" testimonials and did it. It was a big mistake.

A friend of mine from the class estimated that only 30-40% of us got actual dev jobs. The rest are either in customer service at a tech company, sales or testing (keep in mind this is people who dropped $15k+ to do the bootcamp), back in our old industry or in the case of one, working at Trader Joes.

I was under the impression that 95% get good jobs. If I had known only 30-40% did I would have never done the boot camp.

How did they manipulate the numbers? I never dug deep but here are my thoughts:

* to qualify as "actively looking" you can't have a job to support yourself. That's right you're supposed to not have an income while job searching, kinda hard when it can take more than six months. If you get a job, you get dropped from career support and your statistic gets placed in the "not actively looking" category

* "industry related jobs". If you go to a dev boot camp, you want to be a dev. You're paying $15k to do it. A customer service job at a tech startup is better than nothing but you don't have to pay $15k to do it. Likewise for sales.

As a positive point, all the females in our cohort got dev jobs, including the only one who actually failed the class. Startups are pretty aware of the gender discrepancy and actively looking to hire those with double x chromosomes. Not complaining about affirmative action, just wanted to give you as full picture as possible
> The value of an investment has nothing to do with how much use you get out of it. You're conflating investments with assets.

A house can be both.
Even if he does screw up, I would wager that the Supercharger stations would get snatched up quickly during any bankruptcy firesale.
Yes - interest rates on our debt is low. But increasing the money supply will eventually come with inflation, and with that higher interest rates.

Eventually people will stop lending countries money. If they don't - that's even scarier. (A lack of viable investment alternatives)
I'd feel out your colleagues on the subject before pushing Python 3. It's a better language, but people who are still using Python 2 this late in the transition may be doing so because they have very strong feelings on the subject. Sometimes you have to pick your battles.
A watered down version of your career that pays 3 times as much, working on problems that will actually affect people's lives.
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It's expected, but as someone doing research it's super discouraging. I can certainly see the appeal of moving away of basic research with a very long term time horizon (fine for science, but frustrating for individuals) and towards a field with the potential of more immediate impact.
It's funny to see this German effort turn up in Scientific American, of all places.

In 2014, FQXi held an essay contest, sponsored by Scientific American, called "How Should Humanity Steer the Future?". First prize [1] went to German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies [2].

Her award-winning proposal [3] was to hook up everybody to a recommendation engine "to give the user an intuitive feeling for how well a decision matches with recorded priorities", so they would not have to think for themselves. Because, as she succinctly put it, "They don't like to think" ("they" being "most people": "It is time to wake up. We’ve tried long enough to educate them. It doesn’t work.").

Granted, the technological contraption needed to make this work would currently be Google Glass-clunky, but fear not; the essay helpfully adds that "If such a feedback in the future can be given by a brain implant, it will be like an additional sense."

No, I am not making this up.

[1] http://fqxi.org/community/essay/winners/2014.1

[2] https://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/fellows/

[3] http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Hossenfelder_fqxi_e...
thanks, any success with these either for hiring for finding jobs? i ised monster in 2003-2004 to find an opportunity and i've been with that company for the last 13 years. my network's mostly in this company.
That control is tenuous. Do they control the oil, or does it control them? I can imagine numerous scenarios where control of the oil is taken away.
See also their site: http://www.forensic-architecture.org

and this interesting movie by the same guy about the architecture in occupied Palestine: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rebelarchitecture/2014/0...
This is the US.
Its a miserable place to etch out a living for the lower middle class, to top that off they hand out to EVERYBODY in positions of power nothing but "Hammers" in their toolkits. This leads to every single problem looking like a nail to them.

The US is eating itself alive, nothing short of a Bernie Sanders style revolution is going to slow this process down.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, this is accurate.
Same here :) I've extended experience with all major VR headsets and I actually prefer the PSVR because of Sony's top-notch vertical integration.

That said, I get the general criticism for the current state in VR ("low" resolution yadda yadda) and PSVR in particular (lack of full room control / limited motion tracking yadda yadda). I really don't mind as presence works across the board today and I actually love the "subtractive" design and simple controller based experiences of most PSVR titles.

In any case, even with the most high-end graphics card on a 4K+ display and the most ambitious titles, games still look very far from photo realistic (ask any non gamer to watch you play and evaluate).

It will take us still a very long time to get to that somewhat questionable goal, especially in VR where all those "shortcomings" get even more pronounced. We will probably need completely new paradigms in game development as well as whole new classes of technology in general.

So, it's still called "playing" right? Let's continue using our imagination while enjoying the most creative efforts of our time in ever more engaging ways.

REZ and BattleZone VR alone.. my 14 year old me still can't believe that this exists and is available for normal people for essentially a summer holiday amount of work :O

All that considered, VR clearly is not for everyone. Many people can't get used to it for lots of reasons. One should also always get enough sleep and take breaks even when accustomed to VR – it is taxing. Another reason why I prefer more "simple" arcade style experiences actually, 20 min bouts of highly enjoyable escapism after which I get back to real life yay ;)
Sorry you're being downvoted.

On the capacity front, I think your caution is very well founded. Since their commercial release 25 years ago, lithium ion batteries have only increased in energy density by like 2.5x. The vast improvement in battery life of electronics has come from the electronics, not from the batteries. And lithium ion is already near (within an order of magnitude) of its ultimate theoretical potential. Future progress here is going to get harder and harder. No battery expert I know expects future progress to be as fast as past progress.

However, on the cost front, I think there's less reason to be pessimistic. Here the limit is more economics, and less physics. As the scale of production has risen, costs have fallen substantially over the past couple decades. And over the next few years, world lithium ion production is set to triple again with the Gigafactory and others coming online. How much cost savings this brings is uncertain, but there's no theoretical reason that greater automation and scale won't continue to push costs down.

tl;dr: Non-chemists are too optimistic about technical progress in batteries. Future progress will almost certainly be slower. But there are no physical limits preventing prices from continuing to drop with experience and scale.
The $2T valuation may have stood if they didn't socially kneecap themselves at every turn while putting themselves at risk of internal and external collapse by funding (and fighting) wars in their backyard.
I liked the overall idea of the N93 and wish Nokia (or someone) would use it as inspiration for a new design. Having the camera on the side with a swivel screen, there's no need for a lower quality front-facing camera.
I would advise trying free/cheap lessons first. E.g. freecodecamp, Lynda, udemy, CS50x, etc.
Pretty cool! Be interesting to see how many of the internet "grumpy old men" complaining about modern smartphones buy them in first-world countries.
I'm specifically referring to the remark you'd have to build your home in a hole, which honestly makes no sense at all.
I'm playing the gorgeous Elite Dangerous these days on a Broadwell-E PC with a curved 95hz 3440x1440 34" monitor, utilising TrackIR for head tracking, with full HOTAS (Thrustmaster Warthog + rudders). Coupled with a wonderfully detailed sound track, it is an incredibly immersive experience as it stands even in 2D.

This is a title that has VR people raving about it, and I can picture why - the immersion would be full and complete. Now, I haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet, as I like the resolution of my monitor too much - which is a factor especially in titles like DCS World that I'd also like to play.

Having said that I can't wait for the 2nd generation of Oculus Rift to come out with 4k screens or thereabouts. I'll be preordering.
Ditto. There are more anarchists (of various stripes) in the tech community than it would at first appear.
> time as a measure of the numerical order of change.

This fits well with my hypothesis entities use a blockchain based reality to communicate with each other.
> There's a false equivalency here: Only one side is barrel bombing people indiscriminately, torturing people by the tens of thousands, and systematically exterminating an entire group of people.

That seems blatantly false to me. The Assad regime is certainly guilty of all the things on your list, but ISIS are also murdering and torturing people by the tens of thousands and systematically exterminating entire groups of people (has everyone already forgotten about the Yazidis, if nothing else?). Insofar as differences in scale exist, they seem to exist only because ISIS doesn't have the capacity to kill as many people as they'd like. Both groups have institutionalized horrific violence as a matter of policy.
Out of curiosity, how many anarchists do you know, and how well would you say you know them?
yup, I'd be more comfortable going to one of those scary Muslim countries like Tunisia than the US.
But you can invest the difference in something more liquid and diversified and use that income to forever pay your rent.
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just do it man, fairly sure you wont regert it ;-)
I'm actually looking forward to buying them, but only if they drop the price (which I'm sure it will overtime). If it's around $20+, i'd snap it in a heartbeat.
Petrodollars don't underwrite demand for American dollars. American consumption does. People have dollars because Americans buy with them. This wide base of dollar holders produces a deep and liquid international market.

Compare that with the Euro, which has France threatening to withdraw, and the Renmimbi, which Chinese will sell at fire sale prices for access to international markets their government prohibits them from accessing.

Petrodollars once played a role, but no more. Frankly, it seems like an unnecessary liability held over from when the American economy was dependent on foreign oil.
The chart is missing Brazil's pre-salt reserves, estimates range from 80b to 170b barrels.
Didn't want to get too far with this to avoid derailing thread into an AI one, but once you are not restricted with human body you can get a lot more done with much less energy. But that's just some orders of magnitude and it does not matter that much with the exponent.

So what do you use this energy for? Probably want to know more. Energy is necessary for computation but that's pretty much all what universe is - energy and mass. If you know the process of harvesting it (technology = information) then it's not like you need to do some work. The idea of doing some physical work to get something done is getting deprecated. Once you know exactly how to do something, you can set it up. Information becomes results.

So what if there are others that also want to have access to the energy and mass available in the universe, some kind star wars scenario? Technological progress destroys raw power, so it's about who can develop faster. Progress is done through computation. For computation we need algorithm (=information) and energy. Amount of energy influences speed of computation linearly. I'm making an assumption that with algorithm improvements you can do better, much better.
The majority of oil consumption is not by cars, but the transport industry (ships, planes) and plastics. Better replacements for those are not in the horizon yet.
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I don't see why dropping support for the House of Saud would require we bomb anyone. We'd garrison Israel, the UAE and Kuwait and let Saudi Arabia consume itself from within. The Kingdom depends on American arms. If we cut those sales off, their security infrastructure starts failing within weeks.

My fundamental point is that American influence over the Saudis shadows any Saudi influence on America.
Things have changed over the last few years and what was true in 2013 is no longer true.

In 2013, the few bootcamps that existed and the fewer cohorts they each had were much more selective and they were producing in total many fewer candidates. The result is that bootcamp grads were very high quality (albeit very junior) and they got snapped up quickly.

In 2017 there are bootcampers everywhere flooding the market.

So I'm not sure they are outright lying but maybe they are using data to market their programs that is out of date.
Elon Musk isn't building an all electric version of the 787.
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E = mc^2. In the far future I think we'll do fusion and it'll be portable and cheap.
Try looking at the consultancy end of tech. Typically, if they like your face and grades, they'll put you though an internal bootcamp, or send you somewhere, at no cost to you. Starting salary should be maybe $70k+ and up for a new grad.

This is a much better idea than dumping money into a bootcamp.
Entirely, in my estimation, because you can get cheap and/or second hand cellular phones. Whereas you can't make a cheap and/or second hand landline.

One thing we know about ICE cars is they can be produced cheaply (think moped, not sedan) and there's an endless supply of used copies.
I think that this is a case of mismatch between two standards, not a bug. The C standard allows higher precision values to be used in place of lesser ones (extended precision vs double) and REQUIRES conversion to the correct precision during assignment (or casting).
Also, the C abstract machine has the option to store those values when/if it deems opportune, it won't change observables as defined there.

On the other side, IEEE 754 allows extended precision to be used in place of double and of course requires that any chosen precision be kept or else.

But C Standard mandates IEEE 754 , too!

It seems to me that modern C deliberately chose to ignore such kind of mismatch in the name of (substantial) performance gains. K&R, good or bad, was way simpler!
Money in itself was never my goal.

I always wanted two simple things in life: 1.) To be great at doing something that creates value for others. (sense of duty) and 2.) To be compensated equitably for my work. (sense of fairness)

If you do both of those and succeed, you will make a lot of money during your career. Some people just want to do #1--Linus Torvalds would be a great example--which I'd agree is a more noble, though he's certainly not starving.

As far as what money's good for, it gives you options. It means you can take risks in your career and play the long game. It means you don't have to work a bad job or keep your head down if people are being mistreated. It means your partner doesn't also have to work long hours to raise a family. It means you can start your own business or invest to make a little dent in the world. It means you can retire early if you get burnt out.

Material things are nice but you can have a very, very nice material life with an upper-middle class job. Beyond that, most things are really overrated. I used to like material things a lot more when I didn't have much money. Now that I have plenty, I don't bother much with them. A lot of those purchases came from status insecurity or trying to buy fulfillment. In my first job out of college, I leased a fancy BMW. Now I drive a decade-old Toyota.

IMO feeling "rich" is feeling like you don't have to do anything--your life is entirely on your own terms. It has little to do with buying stuff.
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Kind of answered this to tedsanders below, but basically I think what makes you win in this zero sum game is information. There are pretty much just two things available in big perspective that can make you win: energy and information. And I think information scales better.
The ties surely go deeper than just oil, for example helping to keep the area stable or as least as stable as is beneficial. However I wonder if the recent boom in shale oil in the US might have tipped the relationship in US favor.
With significant innovation in power generation and transmission this might be possible. Absent these innovations they will follow the path of least resistance and that will be ICE. Time will tell.
I'm guilty of the same, and in fact our corporate AMI has selinux disabled. Not my choice, though I'm at least complicit in that I've not protested. Vendor supported apps are the biggest issue. If we have any issues, selinux is the culprit until it's disabled. Even, after ruling it out, you can forget about vendor supported RCA if you turn selinux back on.
It is toxic if new money is not printed. And if it is printed, who gets to spend it?
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That is exactly why /those/ institutions should have 'defaulted' and gone in to orderly holding/liquidation. They are the experts that performed malpractice on society at large.
I don't think it's "the terminal" that tends toward composability - rather, it is the shell and some measure of standardization around I/O. I think many people are confused here because the shell typically lives in a terminal, but a lot of terminal applications compose poorly (as opposed to utilities).

That said, I'm super in favor of getting some modern takes on rich terminals going.
The point was that if you want energy in your home, you either (1) have to transport energy to your home or (2) place your home at the source of the energy. Since placing your home next to a large temperature differential is difficult, then the future will continue to rely on option (1), transporting energy to your home. And if energy has to be transported, its final price will not be zero, even if its wholesale price is.
> I do still think it makes sense for Intel to ship CPUs with those integrated CPUs

Why? iGPU's increase production costs AND reduce both CPU and GPU performance. If Intel wants to produce a separate GPU then more power to them, but that's not what they are doing they are a monopoly extending their dominance to another market at the cost of consumers aka us.

Remember, resistance increases with heat, so even it there where zero manufacturing or performance costs it still increases power consumption.
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They could start by building a civilisation in the first place that doesn't treat women, gay people, minorities like second class citizens.
The conclusions in the linked abstract of the human-based study on PubMed aren't that clear:

"CONCLUSION: Although our findings preserve the possibility of a detrimental effect of a constituent of diet soda, such as aspartame, on select cancers, the inconsistent sex effects and occurrence of an apparent cancer risk in individuals who consume regular soda do not permit the ruling out of chance as an explanation."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097267
aspartame's carcinogenic properties have been known for something like 20 years(I remember my dad showing me a study in my teens) but it's good to see more data is being added to the pile
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It's definitely important to force yourself to use the bindings when you're trying to learn them. Also, the Vim bindings in a lot of other editors have subtle issues and/or missing features that make them a pain to use if you're used to using the full range of commands in real Vim.
The median household probably has to pay taxes too.
You won't find me defending the crimes of the Syrian government. (Or of anyone else in the war!) But I think that there's a danger of letting your perfectly justified moral outrage distort your ability to predict. I do not think that the Syrian government will be as isolated as North Korea after the war. It's not as isolated as North Korea now and outrage will fade further after the war. I predict that there will be less diplomatic pressure on the government after the war. The EU and neighboring states will be more interested in stopping/reversing refugee flows than in punishing the Syrian government for wartime atrocities. Any stability will be considered good stability.

I predict that Assad, like most heads of state, will never be held accountable for his government's crimes. I do not even see how an outside force could bring him to justice without subjecting the Syrian people to even more misery.
He's a convenient fiction though. Since to homo oeconomicus a certain expense of USD 500 and the 50 % chance of a USD 1000 expense are the same, expect him to be rolled out to sell you high-deductible health insurance and health savings accounts. H. oeconomicus is the model human, consequently he isn't cashflow constrained, and the fact that HSAs double as tax shelters for the wealthy doesn't concern the Ideal Man either.

University economics is a religion, not a science, it offers up myths instead of testable predictions on observable reality. High finance is a different deal, but they surely don't build their models on university textbooks.
How much oil is used for consumer vehicles versus industry, plastics, and commercial transportation?
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Have you read DeMarco/Lister's Peopleware?
The main hypothesis is that projects (companies) mainly fail because of sociology (culture) and not because of lacking technology, to quote:

>The major problems of our work are not so much technological as sociological in nature.
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