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In 2016, I spent $32k ($24k was rent!) Assuming a $50k income, that'd be a ~36% savings rate, which requires a 23 year career.

Assuming a $50k income post-tax

The way to fix comments is clear: human moderators. Since this can't br automated (yet), Google doesn't do it.

When I read this, I can't help but think of the enormous promises that came with the computerization of medical records versus the reality that we have today.

America, since its founding, has been an experiment in extreme individualism over collectivism. We worship capitalism over all else. Even a whisper of government programs that help the poor are vilified as communist. Selfishness and immorality is a natural consequence of that. Things won't change until our culture completely changes.

In my experience, it's likely that the founders' problematic behavior has existed from the beginning, but employees feared retaliation and thus didn't speak up until now, when they are safe from being fired.

This is one of most unbelievably naive, immature, and truly ignorant comments I've read on HN. I sincerely hope you're trolling.

Put down the Ayn Rand fantasy novels and go meet some people outside of your economic bubble. Not everyone can be a software engineer in Western society. I'd wager you're about as responsible for your lot in life as these people.

Read about the history of the industrial revolution. Tenement life in NYC. Try to empathize. Develop some humanity and real perspective for Pete's sake.

By the way, no one is stopping you from living like that if you're so jealous. But it's clear you wouldn't last a day like that, you're all talk anyway.

I truly hope that human drivers' "right" to drive at whatever speed they want is forever trampled by regulatory burden.

There is simply a massive difference between the theory of democracy and its actual implementation. Your personal autonomy is restricted by the government, massively, period, generally for everyone's own good. They decide what and how much medicine you can put in your body. Whether you can gamble, and where, and on what, and how much. What drugs you can take. What speed you can drive. Whether you must go to school or not based on your age. Which food you can buy at the supermarket. What you are allowed to see on television. Where and when you may protest. What behavior is allowed in public and what is not. What speech is considered 'free' and what isn't. What machines you may operate and under what circumstances. Which financial transactions you may or may not participate in and the terms of those transactions. The type of home you build and it's specifications. Which countries you may or may not enter and under which circumstances. Whether you are allowed to work or not. It's just the way things are.

Got it. Thanks :)

Thanks for the detail. To me, that sounds like the cost of doing business as a VC, more than risk. Forgive me if I have a little less empathy for the other side :)

10 of those will enter due diligence (at substantial risk to the VC in case the deal does not go through)

What exactly is the "substantial risk" that VCs take on by doing due diligence on ten companies a year?

This is the type of logic that leads to mandatory military parades, the banning of religion as a distraction and "Dear Leader"-style propaganda and mythology. If the military would like to do something in my benefit I request they stop destabilizing the world and causing death for profit instead of glorifying and normalizing it through state-sponsored propaganda.

I expected to read about how OP built a successful e-commerce business after transitioning from full-time software development. Instead this is about how he earned $275 over three days on a one-time shirt idea. Click-bait.

I don't, in general, trust direct feedback from someone I turned down (or hired, for that matter).

Would you please share where you're working so we can avoid applying?

Did your service offer a paid API? Scraping happens because of a lack of better options. Surely you can understand why the scrapers didn't want to contact you beforehand.

I knew a classmate who openly admitted to putting made up volunteer activities on her college applications, arguing there was no chance the school would fact check her. She was right!

The phenomenon you're describing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth_politics

I didn't find out about the address bar thing for years. That said, I am not a fan of reproducing natively available functionality in the browser.

Well, did she do the cooking or not?

Is this unethical if everything is done locally and no data is stored or resold?

I am floored by how thoughtful and helpful everyone's responses have been. Thank you so much for sharing your perspectives. I'm going to go for it.

Just to be clear, you are the one being rude.

I'm having similar issues. How did you figure it out? Is there a test, or just elimination?

If only it was that simple. Most people cannot afford justice in the US.

Fix ads. I think there is a need for a product that allows websites to self-manage their ads, allowing them to handle display, tracking, payment, and client management internally. Imagine being able to get rid of all the third-party ad and tracking scripts on your website in favor of hosting and managing all of it on your own domain, displaying ads that are guaranteed to be relevant and attractive (since you chose them) and setting your own prices.

That would be true if 100% of Wyoming utilities acted in unison. But if one of them shifts to renewables, and that shift results in lower cost energy or an increase in productivity that results in a reduction of employees, it will force the others to do the same to stay competitive. This legislation is meant to prevent that from happening so jobs and profits are preserved in the short term.

Lobbyists for utility companies looking to preserve the status quo paid the lawmakers to do it. Isn't that obvious?

Same reason direct-to-consumer sales of Teslas are banned in Michigan.

It's the American free market at work!

Forgive my ignorance, but how many undergrads have actually published a paper? I'm not saying it's impossible, but I was under the impression that this is something that happens once you get in to grad school, not before.

Thanks!

I saw your other comment alluding to this and was intruiged. If you have time, can you please elaborate?