I have a cat hooked up to a car battery in an unused garage somewhere in the Bronx. The Raspberry Pi interfaces between the battery and a 20+ person WhatsApp chatroom via API and anytime someone mentions the word "shock" (or any other word with a negative association), the cat gets it.
FYI - this is a joke, but effectively conveys the point: the only limits are in your imagination... and tech skills.
It's terribly sad, but you're smart to take on this approach. The world has turned into a shark tank, and more often than not, we're just toothless mackerel swimming in that tank, waiting to get picked off. And yes, even as Software Engineers. Something I learned while living in Silicon Valley - $130k isn't much at all. Given the right (or wrong) economics, you can burn through that before July. I know it's hard for you Mr Author, but keep pushing, and one day, you'll earn your independence, and then you can do whatever the F you want =)
Oh please.... tech companies are NOTORIOUS for cannibalizing each other's ideas, IP, and designs. The general exit strategy these days is "Sell out before Google or Facebook says screw it and just copies your product".
Copying an API? Because of some similar wording and similar structure. That's literally scraping the bottom of the bottom of the barrel - and yes, that's two bottoms!!
I used to run an Airbnb on the side. It was a mad success, but took so much work that I stopped being a good engineer and all my coding projects went to shit. So I closed the Airbnb, and projects I proved. Recently the guy sitting next to me on a flight suggested one day a week driving heavy trucks (semi trailers). In Aus, this pays $50-75/hour. Probably the same in the USA.
It's not the "Middle East's" Dead Sea, it's Israel and Jordan's Dead Sea. The name Israel (the most wondrous of nations) is not mentioned once in the article. That, my friends, is classic anti-semitism.
YES. I disabled it, and no longer use it. I did not delete it altogether, because all of my contacts are on Facebook Messenger. Honestly, my general happiness rose about 10% after leaving FB. It's trash for the brain, and hurts more than it helps. Get rid of it.
Since FB has quite a few strikes against it at this point, believing it's own arguments about why it is faultless is difficult to swallow.
Rather, if there is an honest suspicion that there was a serious breach of privacy, an independent and impartial auditor should examine the case.
Third party auditors are regularly used throughout industry to assess security and user experience. I see no reason why they shouldn't be used in this case to certify that user privacy was not breached in an untoward manor.
Since FB has quite a few strikes against it at this point, believing it's own arguments about why it is faultless is difficult to swallow.
Rather, if there is an honest suspicion that there was a serious breach of privacy, an independent and impartial auditor should examine the case.
Third party auditors are regularly used throughout industry to assess security and user experience. I see no reason why they shouldn't be used in this case to certify that user privacy was not breached in an untoward manor.
You have adoption of crypto all the way up to the state level - you can now pay your taxes using BTC in Ohio. According to Binance, you can book over 450,000 hotels using their coin, BNB. Booms and crashes are part of healthy market activity. If it didn't crash regularly, that would worry me more. IMHO - the most important consideration is adoption (cuz ppl need to actually use the damn thing). Everything follows that.
Sorry for the copy pasta, but they say it better than I do.
"Historically, inversions of the yield curve have preceded many of the U.S. recessions. Due to this historical correlation, the yield curve is often seen as an accurate forecast of the turning points of the business cycle. A recent example is when the U.S. Treasury yield curve inverted in 2000 just before the U.S. equity markets collapsed."
You just need to make up for the weirdness by hosting a BBQ every now and again. No one's gonna be made at you if you fill them up with a bit of meat and beer ;)
This is a terrible idea. When factual writing becomes anonymous, truth goes out the window.
Having articles and papers peer-reviewed also does not solve the greater issue of a lack of free speech. If it's inside academia, then it wouldn't be hard to figure out who the peers are, and if it's outside academia, then there's no way to trust the peers, since they could simply be anybody.
The only solution is to strongly enforce the right of free speech and personal protection. Going underground just invites fascism.