The only way that Taiwan will be in China in the near future will be if there is a conquering war from China invading Taiwan, or a long period of attrition where China wears down the west and succeeds in putting sycophantic leaders in charge of Taiwan who weaken her military. My background is I'm an american who went to college and learned about history.
> The only way that Taiwan will be in China in the near future will be if there is a conquering war from China invading Taiwan, or a long period of attrition where China wears down the west and succeeds in putting sycophantic leaders in charge of Taiwan who weaken her military. [emphasis added]
Sycophantic leaders are really bad, sympathetic leaders are one of the first steps to getting there. That's part of why I'm concerned about this Foxconn (I think I mispelled it earlier) guy- he seems like an early stage in this.
I think we're both on the same page, it's the Not A Paid Shill guy that I'm worried about.
Taiwan is not in China. The democratic government in Taiwan does not consider itself to be under the sway of the more powerful, richer country that they lost a civil war to.
Software engineers are unlike almost any other advanced technical field, as in there is so much demand and so much change in the field that degrees aren't as important. After a few years of experience, that's what matters more. But i bet that first job is hard to get.
This is the reason I chose a community college with a high job placement record. I had a job right after graduation and gained experience working instead of wasting an extra 2 years in college. Plus, an associates degree costs significantly less than a bachelors.
If, instead of using the metric getting a job as a Software Engineer, you used building and deploying quality software in a timely and cost-effective manner, then a CS and/or SE degree may be very important.
When I worked in IT, I noticed a correlation between the absence of each. Those who get jobs as programmers without prior study and/or training tend to be more likely to slip up on quality delivered, deadlines met, and/or resources used. Of course, measuring those things is tricky. Some programmers ship software full of bugs so they can make more money fixing it up later, which is charged to some other account in the company.
i don't get what you are talking about. please explain what the problem is with the victorian idea of progress (with or without scare quotes. And what do you mean by that, including evolution. besides christianity taking over religious thought in roman society, what does original sin have to do with that, just the philosophical impact?
The state supreme court in the 1930s heard a court case on a then newly enacted income tax and said it was unconstitutional. So it's still presumed to be the same. Seattle has created a kind of test income tax separately that they are trying to use to overturn that court case.
But we've already have many companies claiming they would build nationwide networks and it never happened. They are broken, etc. Only tesla has build a worldwide network that works well, and has stood up to the test of time.
Can you give examples of broken promises? I think evgo and chargepoint have held true to what they promised. And I don't think Volkswagen and Porsche cancelling their plans (after VW being legally mandated and Porsche designing a 800 volt 350kw level3 charging car)
