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Amazing! "Zeloof says he doesn’t know for sure what he wants to do after graduating this spring" - I hope we don't hear later that he went to work for FAANG. One the saddest things about Big Tech is how they take young talent away from innovative, potentially competing enterprises and into busy work internal projects just because they can.
Unfortunately, that's precisely what will happen.
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I totally agree. But I believe there is a process to explore his interests, pinpoint something, and then spend some money to further it.
You don't need necessarily need to spend much. Of course quality music lessons or gymnastics will consistently cost a bunch but the lion's share of things will not. I know plenty of impressive scientists who were very middle class growing up. Collect coins, stamps, or sports memorabilia. Practice sports statistics and trivia. Go for hikes and catalog leaves, plants, and insect specimens. Grow a garden or vegetable fr…
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So basically a member of the middle class in a developed country. How remarkable.
I don't know many middle class families who would buy 10s of thousands of dollars worth of equipment for their kid.
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A thousand dollars is an achievable amount of money for a smart kid in a poor family. I have had good friends from really poor families in Europe make more from bug bounty programs. If that's you're trying imply.
What if you couldn't fix it? It wouldn't be smart to risk $1000 on a broken piece of equipment unless you had a lot more money to spare.
I more meant the sum of money in general, I said it based on a very real experience.
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Are you saying that Google, Facebook, etc have not been innovating over the last years? What does the landscape look like if you remove these companies' contributions from the public sphere?
What innovations have Google and Facebook had over the past few years? As far as I’m concerned Facebook could disappear overnight and the world would be a much better place.
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If you think your average American family can do this for their 22 year old, you’re out of touch.
Yeah I think most Americans could (not talking about averages here). It's roughly the same money as 1 year at an university, or a year of car lease payments, or a nice family vacation. Maybe two, but no more. Anyone who rides a new-ish motorbike demonstrably has enough money to spare. Are motorbikes that unusual? Are second cars unusual? I don't think so. (and don't even look at how much people spend on cigarettes) I…
If you noticed anything about national trends - you'd know that motorcycles are basically dying and that things like sport cars are almost gone for good. MOST American families don't own an extra car.
You're also ignoring the real estate costs that are associated with what this guy had. Man, seriously - reevaluate. Read about what people are struggling with these days. Parents aren't paying that tuition out of their pocket - the kids are paying it with student loans.
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Yeah I think most Americans could (not talking about averages here). It's roughly the same money as 1 year at an university, or a year of car lease payments, or a nice family vacation. Maybe two, but no more. Anyone who rides a new-ish motorbike demonstrably has enough money to spare. Are motorbikes that unusual? Are second cars unusual? I don't think so. (and don't even look at how much people spend on cigarettes) I…
Damn dude - you really are out of touch. You should really step outside your comfort zone and talk to more people! If you noticed anything about national trends - you'd know that motorcycles are basically dying and that things like sport cars are almost gone for good. MOST American families don't own an extra car. You're also ignoring the real estate costs that are associated with what this guy had. Man, seriously -…
This feat of ingenuity requires cca $25k - but distributed over 5 years. How many family households in the US could pay $5k/year?
3/4 of all US family households have income over $50k, more than 1/2 have income over $85k, more than 1/3 have income over $125k and more than 1/8 have income over $200k.[1]
$85k is enough to be comfortable and have $5k for the genius child even if you live in the Bay Area. $50k is enough for this outside major cities.
[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...
I'm more interested how he managed to master the knowledge of chip manufacturing plus a ton of electronics repairs (see his microscope and other equipment) at such an early age. Very admirable. Look at what he did: > Photolithography machines are expensive—up to $150 million—and so Zeloof made his own by bolting a modified conference room projector bought on Amazon onto a microscope. It projects his designs at tiny s…
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Was about to ask the same thing. There are ~280 resolutions to that initialism on a random website that I've found, none of which are easily applicable to the context.
Total Comp here, but in the subcontinent it also stands for something vulgar, so clarification or avoiding it is probably best.