Being employed to one of those companies is like working for the mafia without the risk of being killed (at least not directly) part. Expect no loyalty,fairness,open-communication, or just any basic decency from them.
This is still by far the best resource of what has sadly become a money-grabbing fad.
PDFs of the full lectures, labs,quizzes, also videos. The same material the kids at MIT take.
No bullshit,no signing up needed, no irrelevant 'degrees' (Mini-nano-pico specialization) for 2000 USD, no worthless certificates, no cumbersome "learning systems" splitting a 45 min lecture in 30 micro-videos with inane and obtrusive questions in the middle.
Since it is so useful and it doesnt make anybody rich, naturally it needs to die.
I know your type, "The US also has issues, but it is ruled by white people so they are manageable , it is not horrible like those 'here be dragons' lands of dark-skinned people', well no, the issues of the US are as a big as any other country, and even more,the US actively participates in creating havoc in the world. I know you think I am the lunatic here, well, see this for example:
So ask yourself, who is right? The world is 7+ billion people, not 330 MM. And who in their right mind can take seriously a criticism from an American? it is like being called a slut by the "madame" from the whorehouse.
> You mean like living in any homogeneous Asian country as any ethnicity except the primary one?
How many racial minorities were killed, abused and tortured by the police in South Korea and Japan last year? How many racial minorities there are going to jail at a 400% proportion of its population? How many racial minorities there are protesting torching the country because they are being called niggers, or spics and openly insulted by the president, called rapists, bad hombres, bad people?Or being patronized by Biden : " Poor Children can be as smart as white Children" "All black people are the same"(Notice a pattern here?) Let me tell you about a Japanese racial minority, the Okinawans, whose women have been raped constantly by American GIs who are not even judged. Ask the Okinawans what do they think about the Americans?
Another Pacific minority? The people in the Bikini Atolls, see how the rich, diverse, enlightened and multicultural vibrant country treated them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqoiT-RS4A
> t seems like you think the US is one entity, but depending on the city and state it can be extremely multicultural and diverse (like Chicago, my home town).
So let me get this straight, you consider any Asian country as homogeneous (where more than half of the world lives and there are hundreds of ethnicities), yet Chicago is multicultural? I will tell you what the problem is: You think of American as the vanilla version of the world, so they can adapt themselves and be diverse and individual and the Asians, are the "Chinamen", the homogeneous,android-like, everybody the same. The world does not work like that. But this is a discussion that is worthless. You are a citizen of the modern Roman Empire, your world spin around "Rome" and all the roads led to it. Many more generations are needed to see a change on this hegemonic worldview.
The answer is MONEY, not "Freedom" or any other pablum you were taught. As economic conditions improve in China,India,even Mexico many educated people are returning. No one wants to live in a racist country when they will be treated as second-class citizens at best.
> My point above is not that the US is above reproach, but that it isn't disapppearing its citizens for criticizing the government or practicing different religions or being of a specific ethnicity. Etc. To say the two countries are "equally bad" is a pro-ccp propaganda point.
The US has killed their own citizen with drones, has imprisoned people who revealed government abuse and just last year arrested more than 100 journalists.
So I could easily same the same about you, you are repeating a pro-CIA propaganda point. I would suggest to ask around in Latin-America, in Africa in China and even in Europe and ask people who they consider more a threat to world peace and which behaves in an arrogant, "my way or the highway", imperialistic manner. You will be very surprised and the whole worldview you were taught in your perfectly designed educational system will come crash down.
Less swearing allegiance to the flag and more travelling. I hope that is not ad-hominem enough to try to ban me.
> about 0.1c per month to store it,
> 0.4c per view for bandwidth
No. Those estimates are 1 order of magnitude wrong. You wouldnt even pay that much contracting the highest tiers in AWS/Azure/GC , let alone owning the infrastructure.
The big majority of the chinese prefer to live under their current system. The fact you are a white, american male in tech does not make your opinion worthier, more intelligent or the moral compass. For many people the US is a barbaric state who humiliates and kill their non-white population and it is a imperialistic juggernaut who stops at nothing (they can kill hundreds of thousand of children with no remose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8YQ8gKIV8U ) to get what they want. So I would stop with the moralizing, nobody with 2 cells will buy it.
Thanks god, that will fill with joy the hearts of all the orphans in iraq and afghanistan. May god bless America forever. Greatest country in the earth by a gigantic margin.
People like OP actually scares me, the fact they cannot understand that is "exactly the same" makes me think chauvinism has taken over the rational part of the brain and anything, no matter how horrible, could be justified if done by "the right people".
Either this the biggest concentration of actual multi-millionaires in the history of a forum thread or they can pat themselves in their backs and laugh all the way to the bank since the hoi-polloi fiercely fight the ideological battle for them. I suppose from the misguided belief they will soon join the club.
> Interestingly, homeownership has a split effect on political party affiliation. Those who use private mortgages “polarize,” according to the authors, with some becoming Republican and others becoming Democrats. But homeowners who get mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration, so-called FHA loans, are much more likely to become Democrats.
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In fact, the authors point out, even those who were previously Republicans “shift markedly” toward the Democratic party once they receive an FHA loan. It could be that those who receive FHA-backed loans recognize the value of government in helping them obtain a low-interest mortgage or perhaps it is because FHA loans are only available for more modest loans, and are more likely to be taken by working- or middle-class people. At the same time, Republicans who do not use FHA loans become even more Republican.
> It’s not just that becoming homeowners makes people more NIMBYish, or that homeownership locks people into place, but buying a home changes people’s political behavior writ large. Once someone buys a home, they act politically to protect its value. As the authors point out: “Overall, the results suggest that individual economic circumstances importantly influence political beliefs and behavior, and suggest that homeowners have special influence in American politics in part because their ownership motivates them to pay attention and to participate.”
Create a landing page. I will write a couple of posts saying that Sam Altman and Paul Graham are the smartest guys this century and we will be soon launching a a show HN, new YC company.
I worked for a Fortune 20 company so you can stop the patronizing tone. A paper and a pencil also increases productivity by a lot ( perhaps more than any tool) that does not mean you need to pay 5% of your developer salary by month for them.
That is not how it works, having a water cooler in the office increase the productivity 100x vs not having water, that does not mean you should pay millions for one. That is a myth invented by SAAS vendors and consultants to justify their sky-high price. The value offered of course factors in the price but many other factors too (scarcity of materials and resource to produce the good,cost of production, maintenance cost, cost of the products of your competitors, risk of vendor lock-in, etc)