I've always kept an eye on the Chicago tech sector (know a few people from college who are big on the whole "built in Chicago" train) because I feel like I'll eventually want to go back, but it feels like so much of it is Fintech which has never really appealed to me.

If my current company ever opens a Chicago office I'd probably pursue it.

Yes, a blessing and a curse! My parents plan on moving south for retirement, but don't want to stomach selling the house for less than they bought it for... They bought it in 2007!

Illinois represent! Seriously, I moved out to California for a big tech job after college and my buddy who skipped college to become a mechanic is now looking to buy a house years ahead of me. I make more than double his salary.

This country can feel like different worlds sometimes.

In some cases license is just paying a small fee to get added to your local government's registry.

In others it's a more extensive training/certification process (truck drivers, for example, have to pass a specialized driving test).

Varies pretty widely. I doubt the one state that licenses florists is putting them through any course and/or test.

Yeah I'm guessing the price is an average of all locations across the country, so while city locations that are more expensive probably account for more than 50% of sales, they're just a tiny portion of the total number of locations.

Skews the number down to prices that most people aren't paying, because many of those locations serve like maybe 100 people per day max.

As it does in every country. It's an average.

Was wondering why the total wasn't even 150...

Yeah definitely, the 9x is nothing like the 9a from the 50s. Just saying that calling it a joke is ridiculous when it's the single most tried and true short range missile on the planet.

A pie chart with two categories is dumb.

Yeah, if you've got like 6 different things then percentages alone can make it difficult to visualize.

But I think we can handle two numbers.

The Sidewinder is 70 year old technology. It's still used by nearly every NATO military to this day because it's the best at what it does.

No joke.

When they originally went closed-source they claimed it was because of the dangers that being open-sourced presented.

About a year later they dropped their non-profit status and sold out to Microsoft.

Love the company, but that's some crazy double speak there.

Kinda makes sense, people from Puerto Rico have easier access to the finely oiled machine that is the US entertainment industry.

Signing with US labels brings more exposure, being bilingual also doesn't hurt.

Fun game, I'll guess:

Drake and Taylor Swift?