Nuluvius

That's uncomfortable on so many levels...

Did you just try to sum up 90% of You Tube by chance?

It depends but in general... No it's really not.
 
The mindset that mathematics is a critical bar to entry is draconian and highly obsolete in today's industry. 

That's uncomfortable on so many levels...

Nope, I don't subject myself or others to popcorn lung.

Expect to not get the job once you've sat there for 3 hours doing something that industry standard library number 3 does. A thought process comment would likely have sufficed.

People. Calm down, I don't need to lock this thread just yet, but it's on the course for that to happen.

Nope, I don't subject myself or others to popcorn lung.

Nope, I don't subject myself or others to popcorn lung.

Care to elaborate on this? Pretty much all research leads towards vaping being "not safe". So "dangerous", is certainly an objective term, and vaping might not make you drop dead, but it's certainly not risk free.
 
And if you know the risks, and choose to vape anyway? Cool! As long as you're not bothering other people with second hand emissions, who gives a shit? Drink, smoke, toke, vape, doesn't matter to me.
 
Though people who vape and tell themselves (and others) that it's totally risk free and totally safe? That's irresponsible.

Got any peer reviewed research to back that up? Both articles cite a few sources - none of which disagree with me.
 
About all I can gain from your links is that "vaping is safer than cigarettes". Wow. Good conclusion.
 
One that I never put in doubt.
 
If you are a smoker? Sure use vaping to quit smoking. No one is saying not to do that (in fact, multiple people in this thread agree with that as a reason to use it).
 
But people are saying vaping is totally risk free, and not dangerous. Both of your links don't back up that assertion, so you saying my statement is bollocks, is... well... bollocks.
 
Also, what do you say to @Nuluvius's huge post with like a dozen sources saying that there are indeed risks associated with vaping?
 
There's at the very least, enough to warrant regulation to ensure consistency, and more importantly, more research to delve into the details of possible harms.

Nope, I don't subject myself or others to popcorn lung.

Nope, I don't subject myself or others to popcorn lung.

Who's 'triggered'? I was providing you with the research that you requested.
The research suggests that to be false due to the volume of other pollutants, toxicants and carcinogens packed into those products in combination with standard nicotine; which also becomes more virulent once heated/charged or 'dripped'. Moreover, one could postulate that at least with normal cigarettes the contents are going to be somewhat consistent, predictable and regulated...
You state that as if you believe that behaviour to be any better... Frankly it's amazing 
If you paid closer attention to the dates (that I included) or even read those articles then you'd see that many were very recent indeed i.e. 2017.
I felt it important to include that since you'd specifically asked how these products related to 'popcorn lung'. I felt that this served as sufficient background information, and since the date was specifically and intentionally included as well as the content of article itself going into detail about regulation, had hoped that would be obvious. It seems not though...
I fail to see how since the weight of other, very recent research clearly shows the negative effects of these things. In fact it's plastered all over the internet... With more research being carried out as time goes on and these things become even more notorious and prevalent.

... did you read his post? I counted six articles from 2017, and at least one from 2016.
 
As far as I'm aware, 2017 is newer than 2009. Did I get the math wrong on that? Is, in fact, 2009 more recent than 2017?
 
Also, can you explain in more detail what a vape stealth "MTL" (Mouth-to-lung?) kit is? And how it functions? Researching the term, it does not seem to provide any benefit to reducing second hand emissions.

Nope, I don't subject myself or others to popcorn lung.

Nope, I don't subject myself or others to popcorn lung.

If you want a nicer and more feature rich environment then you might like to consider Visual Studio and/or CLion. The use cases for Eclipse are becoming more niche as it becomes increasingly outdated and outpaced by better alternatives in different arenas.

That's uncomfortable on so many levels...

Invest just as much time in learning the theory as in learning a given language, and do so as early as is possible.

Going to have to agree with most of what you've stated. Crypto in general over a long period of time has been doing what we stock traders call "making higher lows" in other words the drops in price crypto have keep ending up higher than previous drops and the highest price of crypto keeps extending up. Crypto in general aren't going anywhere for a while due to large financial institutions getting involved in them along with various governments planning or already having their own variation of crypto being backed. 

In fact it's gotten to a point that it's "technically" easier for someone who is new to investing to invest in crypto and come out on top than it is to invest in traditional common stock or ETFs. Heck you don't even need to buy a whole BTC you can just by a very small fraction of one, not something people know at the start.
 
The variety of crypto worth mining with PC hardware isn't particularly vast, your better off just trading crypto in most cases. Ethereum being one of the few that are actually somewhat cost effective to mine depending on how you do it. Mining straight up Bitcoin is a uphill battle with the increasing difficulty, ASIC based mining hardware are essentially a must have for mining BTC now. 

I believe it is. It is short term unstable but trending upwards over the long term. That said however the general rule with any investment is to never use past performance as a measure to predict future performance. There's risk with any investment and one should only ever put in what they are prepared to lose. One should also pay diligent attention to the news, political and economic climates as well as conduct careful research into relevant companies and assets...
 
A lot of these currencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum in particular seem to follow each others trends within and indeed even across different exchanges. Their short term, rather violent instability provides an excellent opportunity for one to make quick gains by buying low and selling high with limit orders. If one uses GDAX for instance then these are can be filled for free, though do read up on their fee structure.
If your interested in the background, the technical details of cryptocurrency protocol implementation and it's machinations and associated paraphernalia
in specific relation to investment then an excellent starting point is Investopedia: Blockchain. I don't have time to list all of the links but if you read around on there and you are astute (let's face it, if you're not then this probably won't end well for you) then you'll inevitably be able to cover most of the important details within this context (set aside around 4 hours reading time).
This is not really true in relation to the more well established and mature currencies such as Bitcoin, at least not for the general consumer that is. The block difficulty is so high right now that one would need to have access to cheap or free electricity, a cold climate, Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and be part of a mining pool to make it practical for profit... Maybe some other fledgling currencies can be mined on GPUs but again, considering the cost of electricity and hardware wear and tear, investment seems to be the far more pragmatic option right now.

That's uncomfortable on so many levels...

That's uncomfortable on so many levels...