pusher_robot
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pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
10hr ago
Been there. Did great on the LSAT and went to law school on the cheap. The analysis of law as a framework in need of optimization is indeed quite interesting - compelling, even. However, I discovered that there's just not much room in the industry for people specifically interested in those things, and the most probable path was one of reading and writing an unfathomable volume of extremely dull paperwork nobody will care or even know about, something I doubted I could motivate myself to enjoy or even do. Criminal law was at least more dramatic and frequently had the potential to wrap in constitutional arguments, but didn't pay well and necessitated dealing with a lot of scumbags. By the third year I had pretty good idea that a legal career was not going to be for me and finished out my stint in law school with an "America Hates Lawyers" bumper sticker on my beater car. In the end, I went back to my childhood passion and went into IT (specializing in legal applications), and found it to be a challenging, interesting, reasonably low-stress career.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
10hr ago
Two chicks at the same time
pusher_robot
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11hr ago
But in the movie it's evil eastern European men taking an American girl?
And sold to evil Asians, IIRC.
pusher_robot
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1d ago
‘Citizen Vigilante’ starring Armie Hammer (yeah, that guy from ‘The Social Network’ who got MeToo’d) is (roughly) about an American who goes to Europe and conducts a highly restrained and well-planned vendetta against foreign gang rapists and their institutional enablers.
It sounds like a pretty straightforward remake of Taken.
pusher_robot
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2d ago
He was a fine programmer, but there were many better programmers to work at Microsoft then and now. What he was, and what the autistic programmers often are not, was a brilliant businessman, and that made all the difference.
What's keeping that market from being served?
Regulations. There are lots of safety requirements demanded for a four-wheeled vehicle (automobile) to be deemed street legal. What you're describing, essentially an E-UTV, is already a pretty well-served market, but couldn't be titled as a passenger vehicle in most locations. Your best bet would probably actually be an electric three-wheeler, which is classified as motor/autocycle and falls into a completely different regulatory regime. Vehicles like the Trinova are designed to deliberately exploit this.
ETA: I believe in most places you can legally operate so-called "Low-speed vehicles" incapable of exceeding 25MPH on roads rated for similar speeds, but that limits you pretty severely, as you note.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
3d ago
Bill Gates isn't rich because he was a great programmer.
I did not take the bar exam, though it is not required in my state to practice law if you graduate in good standing. The ROI was, I would say, roughly neutral. I do think it benefited my career and I met some interesting people, at the cost of depressed earnings for three years.
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