Abut 10 years ago, City of Los Angeles tried to ban engine-powered leaf blowers (driven by people tired of the noise pollution) but was reversed when local gardeners made a big stink about it.
Don't start your IT/tech career with AWS certification first.
- Instead, learn some scripting (bash, python). You will need to constantly work on improving this.
- Learn how to set up a Linux server and get a website going, from scratch. Even if you won't do it much in real life, it's helpful to know how it's done.
- Get at least AWS Associate cert.
- Find an employer/manager who will let you work with AWS in lab/production in real life.
One of the ways China managed to hack into America's F35 (or F22) fighter development program was listening into a conference call of various vendors discussing project status.
One big recommendation for all to watch "The social dilemma" on netflix also.
The social media apps on the phones are specifically agonized over, tested, and refined continuously to increase interaction, aka make users into addicts.
I know Hyundai Motor started shipping production model of fuel-cell truck in July 2020. They are planning to ship 1,600 hydrogen-powered Xcient trucks to customers by 2025.
Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp, said he would like to cooperate with Hyundai. He said he had twice made proposals to Hyundai that were rejected.
Theoretically one family could even get 2 starlink services if they really needed faster link. No physical line is used so I can totally see some people doing that if they really want to and can afford it.
I didn't really see it as trashing but a real person running a real business in a real world, who just can't believe these young people who live in a fantasy world that is funded by VC.
South Korea is another example of fighting poverty that stopped and completely reversed deforestation.
Korean peninsula in general went through extreme deforestation under Japan, especially during the WW2 era and Korean War, as supply of coal was cut off from the civilian population and redirected to war effort by Japan and Korea. In order to get fuel supply that was needed to cook food and heat homes, local hills were cleared of trees by locals.
If you watch video footage of the Korean War 1950 - 53, the hills are completely devoid of trees. The trees are missing because they had all be cut down for fuel.
If you talk to any older Korean men who were teens up until mid 1960s, they all remember walking 1 - 2 hrs one way up into the hills to collect firewood, piled mountain high on their A-frames (in Korean, jigae).
Once South Korea started getting better off, they went to coal, oil, natural gas, and then electricity for fuel source.
The South Korean government "Korea Forest Service" ministry is completely focused on restoring the depleted forests. And they seem to have done reasonably well.
You can't add voice into asciinema itself but a asciinema recording URL would be an excellent handout material (like powerpoint) to give to students. Your students can view Terminal action with very clear text, unlike videos where reading text can be difficult.
Even if you use other method for recording/delivering your voice/audio lecture, including Asciinema replay link would be a huge benefit to students.
I'm thinking why not move to Hawaii or a beach town 1hr - 2hr north or south of Santa Monica CA?
Quality of life will improve vastly for those who can afford to do so.
I know friend of friend who went to Harvard Law like 15 years ago and she told me there is SO MUCH butt kissing going on there.
You'd think people who got that far would be confident enough to rely on their own skills/study to get ahead BUT even at that level, there is a lot of butt kissing to get ahead.
I also had a very sudden onset of a severe body ache around Feb 2020. I started having some pre-flu symptoms. And after one day, I started having a very severe body ace and it came so suddenly. I have never felt sudden onset of body ache from a flu/cold before.
I took a nap for 2 hrs or so and it fortunately went away almost immediately.
I know a family friend who were scheduled to go on a trip in early Feb 2020 but cancelled it because both had very severe flu symptom. This was an important trip (a road trip of few hrs to visit family) that had been scheduled weeks ago.
One of them to told me he had a meeting with a visitor from China who had mask on. And they think they might have had Covid-19 but no way to know until they get the antibody test.
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