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I think if you were to have a really old phone (say 5 years) it would be more of an impressive jump than from one year to the next. I think it's harder to notice some of the incremental improvements being made. They can feel kind of lackluster because they're not as big as the initial innovation that smartphones brought.

I think side projects can make a difference if it's relevant to the business that your applying for. For example, in college I did a lot of Amateur Radio and was part of a club there. I did a lot of Amateur Radio related things, building circuits, programming microcontrollers, etc. This helped me get a job at a Radio company working on SDRs. However, I think a lot of my ability to get that job was because I networked a lot with the recruiters.

Side projects aren't the be all end all to gainful employment. You need to use your network to build relationships and engage with people you know that can help you get employed.

Peak Valley? 8 years ago

How do you know the next boom is going to be in SV? Whose to say the conditions for the next boom aren't riper somewhere else?

What evidence do you have to back the assertion that millenials have a strong FOMO versus their fear of losing everything any of the other generations? (Anecdotes don't count as evidence)

Why wouldn't bubbles be able to exist without a centralized media?

I think that in a lot of Sci-fi the people still play a critical role in the story, alongside the ideas. Not all sci-fi stories are about the ideas. They can often contain how the ideas impact people, how people use the ideas to shape their world and so on.

"That environment is only easily attained in the exact places that have ridiculous real estate markets."

There are places in middle America with open positions for many people that have relatively inexpensive living costs in comparison to places like SV, Seattle, New York, and so on.

In my life, at least, there is still some time between eat and sleep that allows for the creation of personal art. Sometimes other things get in the way, but I think that if you've got the energy and motivation you can still get it done.

I don't see how talking about consciousness is necessarily a limitation to it being a by-product of physical processes.

It could be that consciousness is simply an emergent property (a by-product) of the communication of billions of neurons that are connected in trillions of ways. Where neurons are emergent of chemical phenomena which are emergent of atomic phenomena and so on.

I'm probably greatly simplifying the dependencies of phenomena, but I think that consciousness is most definitely based upon physical processes. The current evidence makes me believe that consciousness is a by-product of evolution, which is a by-product of the conditions on our planet.

So it goes.

Even if they don't always serve the same purpose, they serve a similar purpose in a number of examples. It's still a valid analogy to get someone thinking about how they might work.