Could have saved a few paragraphs.

This has been tried since the 70s.

I don't see anything new here.

You shouldn't have to divulge your private keys in order to "check your balance". The entire payment history of everyone is available on the blockchain as public knowledge. Signing transactions is a different matter, however.

I'm thinking platofmrs with smart contracts, such as EOS and Etherreum could help fix this problem. I know that EOS allow you to tie token transfers to notification actions which can have user configurable results. EOS also has levels of keys so you can have a "hot" key and a "cold" key which could prevent overriding the notification however contract. Bitcoin, being a pure payments system, with only one key, lacks these feature.

I lived there for 10 years. Was laid off last June, looked for work for 5 months before giving up and moving back east. Paid 3000. / month for a 1 BR apartment in North San Jose.

I did finally get an offer in February, for a company where cost of living is 1/3 to 1/2. what it is in the Valley. For the 3k/month I was paying, at my new location I could rent a 4 BR house on maybe 1/8 acre lot, and still have 500 left over. And the ultimate punchline, Im earning more at my new job, and even using / learning more modern tech.

So I’m not in any hurry to return any time soon.

I think the threshold is do you make enough to buy a house, If you do, then SV might be a good deal. if you don’t, you are at the mercy of landlords and it’s hard to grow wealth, especially with the tax burden

Most people aren’t going to be of the caliber of Blake Ross.

Yes that question is easy but AP CS A is only meant to be credit for a low level intro courses that many majors take, not just hard core CS types

It is meaningful/real-world in the sense it helps them pass coding interviews.

It my entire 10+ year professional career, I have never once used a linked list, never once written a recursive routine or had to solve a problem using dynamic programming, and have rarely used structures like stacks and queues. I don't even think I've bothered with dictionaries/maps. Yet if you go by the standards of what employers are demanding candidates demonstrate during coding interviews, these things should be all over the place.

I thought a short sale and selling a call option were the same thing.

DEC, Sun and SGI bankrupted themselves. They were the part of the old guard who saw computing as somethimg only availqble to the privilged few. Problem is it was getting harder and harder to justify shelling out $4k for a workstation., when you had capable PCs approaching under $1k I also remember Solaris GUI being a total slug circa 1998 at the company i worked for.

Unless your friends are C level execs, you will be in the same competition as every other candidate. Otherwise, at best networking gets you is initial interview. And since everyone wants to move there, you are basically in competition with the best in the world. After 10 years there I found little advantage to actually being in the Valey vs someone who wasnt.

Certain other countries are going to have a hard time mimicking the sucess of SV, because the US is a free society with a pretty open immigration policy. Theres also alot of wealth to throw around. China has the wealth, but not the freedom, and while they can copy what US co pqnies have already done, such as AliBaba and WeChat, they havent yet really innovated, Europe might have the freedom, and may some day get there but they lack a cultural homogeneity of the US and alot of companies are tied to their countries of origin.

I think the only real point I woukd agree with here is culture. VCs in places like NYC want to see immediate profitability and ironclad business plans. The investors in SV are more than willing to take a chance on crazy ideas like search engines and social networking sites. Of course the flip side of ths is you get silly ideas like Juicera and cons like Theranos.

But i do think you are going to see some shifts within the US. To a large extent its already happened witn Amazon choosing to locate its new headquarters outside outside of the Valley. And with all the remote work going on, its going to be less important for you workers to have to be in the same physical location. I still think there will be the startup culture but as the suceesful businesses mature to justidy the large premium they bsve to oay their workforce.

Was laid off last year, after several months looking for work I could not justify the $3k/month rent. So I sold stuff I didn't want anymore, stuffed my car to the brim with whatever was left, and high tailed ifor the east coast. My rent happens to be zero here, so no place can compete with that, but had it been cheaper I might stayed longer.

It costs fens of thousands for even a single charge station so i wouid have to say no,

https://afdc.energy.gov/files/...

The FQA has been somewhat dated with the release C++ 11/14/17 - the author even admits this on his page. But some of the points still stand. But its a good argument for why the more modern paradigms, such as smart pointers, should be used. And also in general, a reminder for coders if they run into a situation where the only way out is to use some darker corners of the language, they should probably rethink your approach. Its better to write more code that is clear, than terse code that is esoteric that relies on seldom used features.

For significant loss you need more like 30-60 dB

Open source alternative has already existed for 10 years - Diaspora.

This was some super hard core Sci-Fi. I really enjoyed both seasons. I did wonder where they were going to go after Season 1. Season 2 was not as good - although I did find the ending kind of interesting - how Quellcrist Falconer basically was able to turn Takeshi Kovacs, for the second time.

My company laid off about 20% of its work force in June, including myself who is a SSE One of my coworkers who is also SSE was also laid off. So its not just HR/support staff.