Readit NewsEdit: gaming is larger than the movie and music industries combined
Unless we can come up with a use case for VR beyond gaming and fulfilling escapist fantasies. It will likely just be another contender for entertainment dollars.
Smartphones on the other hand essentially made it possible to do anything a general desktop pc could do for people on the go without having to be tethered to a chair infront of a desk. Phones can be used for payment, notetaking, etc. There are people who use smartphones and don't play games at all.
Unfortunately the Chinese government can and will censor posts on these feeds, which is made super easy by how slow things usually spread on that platform - but that’s a different issue entirely. I’m not advocating literally switching to WeChat - just that the concept feels at once far more “social” and rather less prone to certain kinds of manipulation.
Staying at the same job, my salary will go from $180k usd to $128k usd ($170k cad). (Equity comp remains the same)
That's a pretty big cut, though at least for me it's worth it because of non-monetary reasons, like being closer to family, not dealing with immigration anymore, healthcare/education.
The money stuff isn't so bad. A downtown Toronto condo is a lot cheaper than San Francisco. That alone makes the pay cut easy enough to swallow. Either way I can comfortably live on a tech salary.
Starting prices for:
3 Bed SF condo: 1.2M usd
3 Bed TO condo: 0.7M usd (900k cad)
No rigorous comparison, just from me house hunting in both markets.
ok. Let's look at Apple compared with three non-tech F10:
PE Yield PEG EV/EBITDA
AAPL 19 1.35% 2.0 14
WMT 23 1.77% 5.3 13
BRK 19 0.00% 0.86 10
MCK 9 1.23% 1.27 8
[0] https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/amzn/price-ear...
There's no way rational actors would start a war on the size of WWII. Only human insanity can cause another one. While that's no guarantee, it is still a strong preventative factor.
The U.S. did very much benefit from the balance of power change that resulted from WWII. War determines who's left, not who's right. Eventually someone might try to be the one who is left.
In a time of people going for T-shaped careers, another language is deepening the vertical bar, while another field enriches the horizontal bar.
In that sense, learning a new language and learning a new field are complementary, but different in essence.
I do not believe that university fullfills a really good role when it comes to filtering for intelligence, it rather filters for familys who put pressure to preservere on kids. But they do a really good job, on forcing people through stuff, that a self-tought person might skip- because they found it useless or not applicable. Algorithm theory and the limits of computation? That is a dry topic and tough to get through without beeing forced too. Software-architecture? Cant see me using that- those small projects i worked on always worked well without. And so on and so forth.
University does one thing right, it forces you to be interested in stuff you do not know you should be interested in.
I do find the filtering out of people who go to university - either by school grades or by monetary parent background really nasty though. In my eyes, anyone who is shown to apply himself, should be able to stay at a higher education.
Front-loading on dry subjects also has the downside of scaring away people who would've otherwise done well given a different path of learning.
The timing of when you learn some things is also important; it matters not if you learned software architecture in college only to have all the knowledge become obsolete by the time you really need that skill - you'd have to review or worse relearn it by yourself all over again.