Let me elevate the question: why do we need yet another programming language? (insert oblig XKCD here)

Outside of not being on anyone's resume but necessary for that next job (with 10 years experience, of course), what is the benefit of F# ?

Stats are formal that the average person with a degree makes a lot more than the average without. It's still true, even if the numbers have been changing.

And when HR is sorting through 20+ (or 2000) resumes for a position, failing the "BS required, MS preferred" is the easiest and most lawyer-free way to send yours to the recycle bin.

How did you finance your startup? Can you still afford to finish college? The bankers prefer to lend money to people with a real degree...

YMMV, but the odds are against you. It's just gambling the rest of your life.

Fine, I'll just go buy N wrenches.

I'm not convinced the weapons manufacturers agree with your simplistic view of their design and qual processes.

If you have a camera embedded inside a side panel and it needs to be replaced, the cost of the camera will often not be your biggest issue...

When you see the cost of replacing a mirror, it'd be cheaper to have a camera and a 7" screen inside.
On the other hand, night vision would suffer from having a screen on.

And I know more than one person who has saved their cars' doors by having the mirror remind them how close they really were to that post...

Use your gun analogy properly: make the astronaut push the launch button, and the manufacturer is immune from any harm...

I apologize for not having mod points.

There's a severe shortage of programmers with 25 years experience in Java, gimme more H1B.

Graduate first. Then go for your dreams.
Because if you fail and you have to fall back on normal employment, dropping out has just put you all the way back to the end of the line, behind all the unemployed educated people.

You can waste a few years after college in dead-end attempts. You can explain that in an interview, it might be a positive (because you're entrepreneurial, and because you've failed and won't be running off again soon).
But if you didn't graduate, you aren't likely to get the interview in the first place.

Are they trying to go around the (few) GCHQ monitoring limits by going straight into NSA-friendly territory?

Because it works. Check the incumbent election rates.

next question?

Considering the drought in many parts of the US, any accident which causes more dangerous (hotter, longer-lasting) sparks then steel does is bad news.

The advantage of the current version is that the batteries rarely burn, and always in a contained environment, usually on pavement. If the new version throws sparks 10m away after every shock, it's worse for anyone except the car owner...

My argument on the turbo point was that, while the turbo gives you more engine power, it doesn't output it itself. I honestly don't know what the actual energy usage of the engine component "turbo" is, but it's a fraction of the "80HP for 10s". And that energy is not delivered via mechanical linkage straight to solid wheels, it's compressing air.
Therefore saying that a turbo turns 5x faster is a false equivalency, because the amount of stress on the components, and therefore the required care and maintenance (the original point), is orders of magnitude different.

> Doesn't exist

Moon... finger... see other reply
or go get a motorcycle

>Turbochargers don't explode all the time, and they spin at even faster speeds (around 5 times)

Educate me. Are turbochargers designed to provide "80HP for 10s" (through a mechanical linkage), as another poster put it?