There are a lot of different sorts of airports in the US. You might not be able to land an unmaintained plane at SFO, but you can fly it from your private airstrip in the Nevada desert to your heart's content.
In the US, the FAA as minimal-to-no restrictions on the sorts of things you're allowed to use to lift yourself into the air, provided you take steps to make sure no one other than you is harmed by your decisions.
> Better hope it's not your house it crashes down on :)
Yes, experimental plane regulations deal with exactly this. There is airspace that is closed to them, you cannot simply fly them over your local downtown area.
Lots of Americans live in very rural, remote areas and several own their own airstrips far from any populated areas. If you're crop-dusting your own fields on a 5000-acre ranch then no one cares when your plane was last serviced aside from the pilot.
The best part of these stories is that nothing of value was ever created or lost.
Just a shell game in a casino, our previous generations built rockets with their best and brightest, now we build Ad Exchanges and High frequency trading bots.
My only issue with the reviewer is the reviewer complaining about SBF's parents saying things like: "why didnt you start him in highschool earlier" or his quote:
"Seriously, what the actual f** was SBF doing in a high school? (Also, why would he want to read the Harry Potter books a second time, one of the deeper unsolved mysteries remaining?) He was doing philosophy better than philosophers, off the cuff. He was bored out of his mind."
However in the previous paragraph when commenting on how great Sam was at philosophy and having intellectuakl stimulating conversatyions with his parents he said:
"This must have been so amazing. I can’t wait for this to happen to me with my kids."
The author seems to be pretending they know exactly what a perfect upbringing for a gifted child like Sam would have needed.
When In fact I can imagine raising sam would have been extremely difficult even with the best parents.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Indeed. I mean, on the one hand, all that tech is indeed different - but on the other hand, it's not the law of physics that it has to exist in a form that makes compliance difficult. A service not existing, or existing in a vastly different form, are options too - options the tech industry doesn't want to talk about.
And FWIW, it's third-generation mobile-first social media platforms we're talking about. It's hard to make a case they're not a huge net negative for society. In any other thread, people would happily agree they shouldn't exist in the current form in the first place.
I don't know how the folks just starting out are finding jobs. Seems like no one wants to hire juniors anymore unless it's for pennies and they can work you to the bone.
I think you need to look outside traditional tech industry and instead look at industries where the code is a legacy behemoth or a cost center but still critical. A trucking company that uses code for planning and routing. The software that a federal agency uses to manage its workforce. A local or regional bank that has a lot of java written in the 90s that it needs bug fixing for.
Eh, I’m a mid level dev, and have worked for those sorts of companies in the past, but even they won’t hire me anymore. I’m not sure if they filled all their open roles off the layoff or what.
For example I used to work for a F500 retail company prior to and during the pandemic. They had a surprisingly large development department and has tons of jobs available prior to 2020. I was able to get in via a cold application and a seamless interview experience. More recently, I’ve tried going back and they barely have any non lead roles, and I tend to get screened out of the few roles they do post. I even got referrals from some senior people at companies like who think I’d get a good fit only to get screened out because the recruiter/hiring manager doesn’t like that I can’t check off their alphabet soup checklist. Should have spent my career doing resume driven development.
It's easier to do this nowadays. If you are smart, hard working, after a year and with AI in your pocket it should be easier than ever to work like someone with 3 years in a given space.
I think that makes sense. so many experienced employees have been laid off that companies don't need to hire newbies any more. Six years I started working for a company that hired 3 senior devs and boatloads of bootcamp grads. for a new project. I doubt that would happen now.
I suppose you can travel to your hearts content in africa and Asia, but you wont be able to land in Europe or NA.