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Outside of work, I know a number of folks with degrees from Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Clara. These folks are not in tech. They love to bust on San Jose State University like its the worst thing ever.

At work, in tech, I know a number of folks with degrees from San Jose State University. They are hard working and successful millionaires.

The folks in the first group would LITERALLY DIE if their kids went to San Jose State University.

It makes me sad/angry for them that they feel there is NO OPTION other than to get their kids into Stanford/Berkeley/Santa Clara at all costs.
It’s not just American companies.
School is a waste of time and resources for the talented these days. You can learn anything you want online by the best people.

It's becoming training for state-run communism. No choice, only negative reward signals, march at the same speed as the average.

Of course if we tell people the truth - your outcome can essentially be predicted by measuring IQ, which stabilizes around age 7. SAT score is essentially a makeshift game-able IQ test, like our interview processes.

The whole system is based on falsities. You can't make people smarter. You can only confuse and unforgivably indebt them. Like several of my friends who 'failed out' of engineering. It's so incredibly damaging and places debt and blame on the individual, even 10 years later some of my close friends have not recovered financially or emotionally. It's like if your best friend focused on playing professional basketball, encouraged by peers and parents, and nobody bothered to mention to him that he's 5'1".
> Veterinarian programs specific limit how many students they accept, because if they didn't, their graduates wouldn't be able to afford a living wage. Other majors need to catch on.

Medical schools do the same thing, but that's also what's causing a burden on the medical system. I truly blame most of the medical expense increases in the U.S. on them and medicare (which sets a base price and everyone else must make up for).

Basically there was a medical school student freeze[1][2] from early 90's through 2010. Now, it's finally starting to increase, still much less than population.

[1] https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-medical-scho...

[2] http://aamcdiversityfactsandfigures2016.org/report-section/s...
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Overnight cargo carriers like FedEx additionally have economics that make this worthwhile. Those planes might typically make only two flights in a day, one to a hub in the evening and one from the hub in the morning.

The efficiency of modern planes is only worth the price if you fly them constantly.
But there is corruption. Any plan that involves changing human nature probably isn't going to work.
It's nice, don't you think, that we here in the West are free to analyze the many disgraceful parts of our history, question our culture, criticize our leaders, insult our icons, etc., without fear of being imprisoned or killed for our beliefs. This is a luxury sadly not available to people living in (or near) China.

That's where your whataboutism really exposes your twisted thinking.
Do you think it would be possible to build a consensus algorithm for scientific consensus?
People hate when I talk about working fulltime in the factory on the midnight shift and going to school fulltime.

I didnt get 'the college experience'. But I didnt have any college debt, I became a hardened adult that didnt cry when plant people got pissed. I dont complain. If something needs to get done, I do it.

Graduated in 3 years with my chem engineering degree at age 21.

People will always complain about something. "You should pay for a dorm, food, education from top individuals, books, knowledge, all for spending 200 hours in the summer at a clothing store".

I did a factory full time midnight shift job, all year, lived off campus + commuted. Ate at home too.

This comes at the cost of the 'College Experience"
Bingo is a 5x5 grid, not 4x4. At best, this is "bino". And you're missing the free space square in the middle.
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How do you know you live in an SF bubble?

> A third of Americans aged 25-29 have a bachelors degree

I know one persons without a degree.

> earn only a bit more than do people with only a high school education: $38,376 a year versus $35,256

At my company an annual raise of less than $25k is seen as an insult.
> It's pretty close to a knockdown argument against someone whose position is US government policy is to imprison black people on account of their ethnicity.

it's not, not even slightly, as far as i can tell. what makes you feel this is the case?
I agree college education seems to be getting less and less important. Especially for computer related fields.

But on the contrary, how would it look like if a generation of kids were taught to believe college is useless?
I think the pay is terrible because this type of work is now mostly being done in parts of the world where labour costs are lower than the US.

For example, I was working with a device that came with a SoC from a large American/global SoC manufacturer. I ended up disassembling some of the firmware blobs and was able to find the devs on LinkedIn who wrote the BSP and the power management firmware. I found large networks of teams of devs in India working on these very esoteric things.
Yes. Machines might come up with something that's 'good enough' though.
I thought they replaced make, not used their tool on top of it…

And even then, make is mostly declarative.

And even then, Haskell is totally implemented on top of imperative tools (formerly C, C--, and now LLVM bytecode). It's still a functional language.
Your points made me think that this law is likely just going to solidify market monopolies and ensure competition can't exist legally, similar to large banks in the US
Having experienced many trips in both settings, I would suggest that neither is really better. Being alone with your own mind can be terrifying, of course, but it can also be much more effective at reaching and healing deep traumas. Perhaps similar to how meditation and socializing have distinct purposes in sober life.
>Still does not explain how the current banking industry along with others, such as the entertainment industry is not "massively wasteful" by design

a) The entertainment industry is irrelevant to the discussion of Bitcoin vs traditional banking systems. It's a red herring. Cut it out.

b) Bitcoin is using an amount of electricity comparable to the country of Ireland. The banking system might use that much power, but they're doing millions of card transactions a minute - there's actual returns and actual business being done. And literally everything you described is an externality that costs the system money - ATMs exist because they're cheaper than human tellers, the lightposts can use more energy-efficient bulbs, etc etc. None of these are explicitly designed to burn power.

On the other hand, if you add mining power to the pool, it makes it harder to get hashes, using more power. Bitcoin is regressive in its power usages. The traditional system does not actively set out to use more power. While due to inertia it may not make active strides to reduce it, but that's not the point here. It's not by design like Bitcoin is.
Agree. The user experience of just running stock Ubuntu is so much better than Window 10 + WSL... Just reboot to Win when needing to do some gaming, graphics/video editing or excell voodoo and that's it.

Same as with Emacs and VIM, don't get the people using Emacs with Viper. I just use Emacs with default shortcuts for Org-mode, then VIM as usual.

Hybrid experiences always suck, and rebooting, changing apps, or changing the computer you use helps you focus on doing one thing at a time anyway!
> Thought experiment: would college be "worth it" if it were free?

Just to add another perspective/angle on it, university is free to attend in many other countries (you even get paid to study, although not much). People still discuss whether it is worth it and I would agree the question is interesting, but just interesting to keep in mind.
There are two ways to interpret that, one way is 'let's not go to college' but the better way to interpret it is 'let's make going to college cheaper (or even free)'.
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Failed out of engineering= they didnt care

I agree that most education should be learned on the job, but college is a filter to keep the lazy out of jobs that require the dedicated.

Engineering was insane because they wanted people that would drop what they are doing to go to mexico with 7 hours notice. The dude that dropped out of engineering school is planning on fishing this weekend, hes not going anywhere his boss asks.
I think previous commenter is saying every year of full-time college costs you a year of salary, in addition and on top of any tuition or other expenses it may cost you. Few students manage to work full-time and make real progress towards a degree.
What makes you think its unintended? Someone profits from all the student loans issued.
That's probably good enough for 80% of what Amazon sells. Big layoffs coming.
And here we see it...the British intern people like Michael Farrell without a trial, and he is said to be a "captured IRA member" and so forth. He's still alive actually, acting as a lawyer for refugees. You people still have to invent lies for why you interned people like him, shot unarmed people in the street that protested the internment etc.

But the Chinese are the real bad guys. It's why the British had to burn his winter palace at the end of the Opium wars.
It's about getting information in realtime, i.e. @mentions, DMs. Polling for that sort of stuff is time consuming and you'll hit the limits pretty quickly.
it's primarily not made with that target audience in mind. Who the actual target audience is I'm not sure, but I imagine their interests don't align with most users.

That's the fundamental problem in such a situation with completely asymmetrical power. The 'bosses' think they are being super conscientious -- and often they are genuinely trying -- but their point of view lets them get away with thinking, "Oh well, they won't mind. Oh well, it's worth it, they can take it."

I wouldn't be surprised if the actual target audience is 'front-end reddit devs who like to use the coolest newest stuff'

That's something to think about. You want to be able to hire the best devs. This is why policies like "Absolute Continuity" are useful for keeping the devs self-honest. Otherwise, because there is no direct accountability, the dev's priorities are going to creep into superseding the user's.
Note that "modern monetary theory", despite the name, is not a mainstream economic perspective.
Can you please not take HN threads further into flamewar and personal attack? That's the wrong way down a one-way street.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Even if not all college degrees are worthwhile, it doesn't mean that companies are wrong to want college degrees.

In fact, it's probably true that the highest-paid, highest-skill jobs have the most genuine need for college degrees. And for the rest, virtue signaling is a real thing: if you have more applicants than jobs, you set up high filters to winnow the pool.
Adblock or youtube-dl does not allow the video creator(s) to be paid for their content. I tried patreon to support creators I like but not all of them use it and their pricing changes awhile back turned me away. Youtube red has been a much better alternative.
I wonder what schools and social strata those who make it as journalists at the New York Times come from. Something tells me an associates from your local community college won't cut it.
Sydney to Auckland Qantas flights used to be on the 747 (3 hour flight time). It was always quite weird to get on such a massive plane and not feel like the plane had really gotten up to altitude before it was already preparing to land.

My first ever experience with business class was when I booked a Melbourne to Sydney flight and it happened to be on a plane that was doing Mel-Syd-LA in a 747. We were one of the few passengers doing just the Mel-Syd leg so we all got bumped up to business class for the 90 minute flight.
I suspect its because the work itself is more fun for a certain kind of people than pushing data from A to B. You also need more data pushers than bit-bangers, so maybe there is not such a shortage?
Ironically, their excuses make sense in context.
Not all people will find technical superiority as a good argument(Linux vs Windows), as any doubt or excuse will be judged as another benefit of maintaining the status quo.
The cost of switching is a real thing, they don't feel the Ipv4 exhaustion pressure personally and the old thing works.
And there are some unfortunate details in IPv6 deployment decisions that make switching harder or costly enough, just enough to use alternatives fixes(like NAT) or maintain some cludge to route IPv6 without actually supporting it(read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4 ).
The recode[0] and cnet[1] articles have some additional details that people seem to be asking about here.

> In a briefing this week, the company promised it will be closing gaps between the two services over the next month, so Google Play Music members don't lose the features they've grown accustomed to, including a cloud-based MP3 storage locker.

* Anyone paying today will be grandfathered in at their current price into Youtube Premium. If you aren't paying, Music will cost $10, Premium will be $12 for new subscribers.

[0] https://www.recode.net/2018/5/16/17363334/youtube-music-laun...

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-music-is-googles-latest-st...
They jacked up the price and a lot of grads can't get jobs anymore. So, yeah, maybe.
I’m proud to be American and proud to think about how America measures up to other countries. My belief in America’s virtues is strong enough that I’m comfortable using other countries’ problems to discuss American problems. (It’s almost like this is one reason to read world news.)

Calling this “political narcissism” is thinly veiled political solipsism. I’m amazed to read that here—do you just put your thoughts about the country in which you live in a little box, separate from everything else? It’s not like you can’t ignore these threads if you’d like; most of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.

It sounds to me like you have some deep-seated insecurities that I really don’t think you should have. I think you should address these before you go around whining about other people’s attempt to discuss things.
Won't this just lead to more thousand page long sign up forms that nobody reads? I could easily right 10 pages on the reason behind using an email address at signup and hide in a bunch of seemingly mundane details
Ignoring financial reasons, I think that university is absolutely worth it.

It's 3 or 4 years of your life where you've (often) just left home, it's the first time in your life that you're actually free to do what you want. It's an incredible place to learn about yourself and grow, where the consequences of fucking up usually aren't as severe.
> EDIT: Alternatively, and more innocently, this could be due to the end of the life-cycle of several appliances in Second/Third World countries -- or maybe even First World (do you know anyone with an aging fridge?). While a lot of people might have done away with their old fridges a long while ago, those that didn't might be seeing them all fail nearly at the same time.

The original paper takes a stance on this.[1]

> It seems unlikely that the increased CFC-11 emissions are related to faster releases from banks or from inadvertent production. Increases in bank-related emissions are thought possible from the demolition of buildings that contain CFC products, although these emissions are expected to be small and only slowly increase over time 22 . Furthermore, an increase in CFC emissions resulting from the decommissioning of buildings is anticipated to occur initially in developed countries in which most CFC-11 was used in the 1970s. However, atmospheric measurements suggest, for example, a decline in US emissions from 2008 to 2014, which is consistent with inventories 23 (a qualitative update suggests no substantial increases in emission after 2014). If reported production values are accurate, our results would require a doubling in the fractional release rate from CFC banks over the past 15 years and a substantial increase in emissions from banks since 2012, both of which seem improbable (Fig. 2b; Extended Data Fig. 9)

> ... These considerations suggest that the increased CFC-11 emissions arise from new production not reported to UNEP’s Ozone Secretariat, which is inconsistent with the agreed phase-out of CFC production in the Montreal Protocol by 2010.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0106-2
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like a problem that can't be corrected, either. Decreasing energy use means doing fewer calculations (and a few people here have mentioned PoS). If I'm running a multi million dollar cryptocurrency farm, it's against my interests to support a system that's less computationally intensive. The whole point of investing in powerful GPUs is to crunch numbers harder. If the community comes along and says "we're switching to this thing that doesn't need your beefy energy-guzzling hardware" these miners are going to do whatever they can to make sure their investment is still maximally beneficial. Nobody is going to say "Well it was fun while it lasted!" and throw millions of dollars of hardware in the trash.
It doesn't make sense to go into debt, sure. But if you can get someone else to pay for college (i.e., a generous scholarship) it's well worth it, and the tuition costs pre-tuition spiral would definitely be worth it as well.

It's difficult to think of a better way to cultivate personal relationships than college. Presumably you've chosen classes based off your own interests, so the people you meet within those classes are good candidates for friendship (via homophily). True, you could use subreddits to find folks with similar interests, but in my experience those don't lead to the same kinds of relationships you develop when you physically encounter other people.

Building a state park a la the New Deal CCC doesn't really create the same sense of shared interest since no one's actually interested in the art of bricklaying for the most part, and volunteering has a lot of turnover (mostly due to folks using it as a resume item).

If you're at a SLAC, the number of people you see is limited so there's less competition for attention when forming bonds and a lot of mere exposure effect.

The value of college (at least at a SLAC) is arguably less about the classroom lessons and more about having a decent method for finding other people you can grow with.
Intelligent people otherwise wouldn't be qualified (read: get past the HR drones and other keyword filtering algorithms) without that given piece of paper.

Yes, people that receive bachelor's degrees may be highly effective and talented regardless of having such a degree, but there are few (if any other) means of attracting gainful employment to fully utilize such talents.

College may not reduce inequality via increasing the education level of a given population but it does reduce inequality via providing a mechanism for individuals to signal prospective employers, "here I am." This mechanism, however, is exceedingly expensive but still probably worth it.

Enterprising individuals may however be inclined to "catfish" and outright lie about their education history, as evidenced the other day by the article about one such employer encountering a catfish.
White Day? You mean March 14th?
And where is that factory now?
You are missing the cultural implications of college. In our society, college has been setup as the "growing up" period where parents can pay some place who will provide food, clothing, and knowledge. The "kids" are pseudo on their own and can become independent.
That’s pretty impressive with a BSChE. I worked about 6 hrs/day, but in daytime, and there was downtime in the job for homework.
Just meat, vegetables, eggs, healthy fats, nuts/seeds and fruit.
The macOS client mentioned in the article uses the Go implementation:

https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-go/about/

It should be very easy to port to FreeBSD, and I'd like to make this happen. Care to help?
Verification becomes difficult, when the system gains adoption and processes thousands of TX per second. Then the issue becomes about the trade-off between node resource requirements, and decentralization. Fundamentally, every node having to process/verify every single transaction in the network,is not scalable.
> There should be a test and certification for plane passengers,

This already exists, it's called ability to pay for business/first class. Increasingly, at least in America, seats near the front are getting more expensive too.
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> Not support and bricking are two different things.

I wouldn't expect a stolen car to be maintained for me, and I would expect it to be stopped by the police and taken away - which I would consider to be effectively bricking it. This would still, and sadly does regularly happen, even if I didn't know it was stolen when I bought it. It doesn't need to be stolen too, if the owner is in fact still a finance company (for example) and it was sold to me without their agreement - they would be within their rights to take it away, and as I understand it without any police involvement (if it's publicly accessible and they don't use force)
Instead of cost being the authenticator of the signal academic performance \ intelligence could be like it is in some european countries wherw college is low cost but admitance is based on high school performance.
> it's not, not even slightly, as far as i can tell. what makes you feel this is the case?

If there was a high level policy to explicitly imprison African Americans (rather than one that disproportionately imprisons blacks because of complicated circumstances), it's hard to believe a black president would support it or allow it to continue.
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General thoughts on the advantages of institutional learning.

* Experts know the relevant information, and learning from them is the best way. Colleges provide access to experts.

* A good lecture can be just as informative or more informative than a good book.

* Lectures can include information from published journals that haven't made it to textbooks yet. There is too many published journals to know what is the most relevant/interesting in the field without being an expert, and lecturers can provide required background information to understand bleeding edge ideas often written in ways off-putting to novices.

* Many people study harder if they know they will be tested on their knowledge.

* Assignments provide feedback on your work.

* Math is something best learned in groups for most of the population.

* Social interactions with other dedicated students can be encouraging.

* College provides many resources that help aid studying & research. From libraries to uranium centrifuges.

I'm not sure college is the best use of four years for everyone, but I am sure that it does provide real value.
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I've witnessed a close friend have a horrifying trip that left him with an anxiety disorder. No known predisposition or family history, either.

And I say this as a strong proponent (and former frequent user) of the medicine.