I always recommend Harvard's CS50 class. (It's online, and free - and it covers a lot of key concepts and exposes you to a lot of different languages.) Most of all, it'll give you some really good experience and the confidence that goes with it.
At some point you should start uploading your code to GitHub, and maybe trying to contribute to other Open Source projects. (I assume your goal isn't just to learn programming, but to learn it well enough to get a job?) There used to be lots of good Meetups where you could meet other programmers and network and learn new things...
The U.S. military actually promoted UFO sightings for years, as a way to cover military testing. Earlier this year the Wall Street Journal published an investigative history of it through the decades...
The gains may be low, but they do still hold most of their value. So it's one way to at least "lock in" big gains from the last few years, and also to "wait out" and survive a major stock market drop so you can "buy the dip."
I came back today, and finally beat it. (It was fun seeing what were the final unguessed words -- like WALTZ, AFFIX, SQUAD, BAYOU. Words with anomalous patterns.)
Roger Ebert once said that even when successful people try to focus on what advice they'd give to others, they usually just end up telling them to do what they did.
And the problem with that is they leave out how they stumbled into a lucky break -- a fluke others won't be able to repeat. (Right-place-at-the-right-time moments, unique confluences of events...) Maybe the lesson here is that people giving advice have filters they're not aware of.
"Ukraine is also building a stockpile of its latest home-made cruise missiles, the Flamingo, 'to launch a [...] massive strike on Russia by the end of the year,' Zelenskyy warned."
Zelensky is doing damage control for his crony's company.
"Ukraine's anti-corruption agency has been investigating the country's star deep-strike drone company — Fire Point — over concerns it misled the government on pricing and deliveries, five sources with knowledge of the investigation told the Kyiv Independent.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau, or NABU, is also looking into the co-owner of President Volodymyr Zelensky's former film studio as the alleged ultimate beneficiary of the company, sources said.
Until recently, the weapons maker was virtually unknown outside of Ukraine's defense circles, despite appearing to be one of the largest — if not the largest — recipient of Defense Ministry drone budget funds, according to documents obtained by the Kyiv Independent."[0]
A lot, actually, but I'm Russian and NABU is western tool to control Ukrainian kleptocratic "elites" which also happen to benefit ordinary people as a side effect.
Now you will hear a lot about them too.
"The main anti-corruption agencies in Ukraine announced on Monday that they had uncovered a major corruption scheme in which contractors of the state-owned nuclear energy company had been forced to pay hefty kickbacks.
The inquiry was announced by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor — agencies that President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to defang in July after they had investigated his close associates.
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The news release by the anti-corruption agencies, and the slickly produced videos that followed, showed they were continuing to dig into suspected schemes after Mr. Zelensky reversed his legislative efforts to neuter the agencies in July. He backed down after young Ukrainians took to the streets, saying the country’s democracy must be protected." [0]
You don't pay taxes on that money -- but also, since you're young, you can let it sit there earning interest. It'll double in value roughly every 10 years, so if you start with, say, $8,000, it'll be $128,000 by the time you're 65. (And you can also tap the money for medical emergencies or college expenses.)
Yeah, I'd meant to say "You don't pay taxes on that money (now)" -- so it's nice to see a lower tax bill. And when you do finally pay some taxes (in retirement), your tax rate should be much, much lower...
At some point you should start uploading your code to GitHub, and maybe trying to contribute to other Open Source projects. (I assume your goal isn't just to learn programming, but to learn it well enough to get a job?) There used to be lots of good Meetups where you could meet other programmers and network and learn new things...
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