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If you're getting paid as a software engineer in the USA[1] and you're making market rate for where you live, you can easily save >>50% of your salary and retire in 10 years.
Not well in the Bay Area, at least.
Can you retire on respect? :)
You can hustle and not have it be related to working for someone else. You're thinking too small.
Interacting with media / marketing seems to be considered evil on HN. Probably because it's easy to abuse.
ITT fashion illiterate techies doubting the success of a pretty genius product
I love that caring how you look is just "narcissism" now. :)
The other problem I see w/ the ML is that, due to the nature of data sets, it's going to be mostly white people who benefit. Minorities famously do poorly.
GP likes posting anti-Muslim sentiment on social media. The overreaction follows logically from being that type of person.
HN has a lot of right-wing people when it comes to capitalism & the meritocracy of America.
I don't know anyone who "tells the poor" that. I think most people understand that capitalism is a rather brutal, territorial game. And being raised in a good household is a massive advantage.
Do you know any poor people? Ask them. I guarantee they've been told this in some form. Hell, ask anyone who is underprivileged.
With a bit of good financial planning, you can live off 2$/day/person or less.
Prove it.
I do not enjoy having my empathy tugged at people who only seem to see me as a member of their community when I have something they desire and who will not regard me as a member once I have provided such.
So you helping others is for your own self-satisfaction, and not to help others? You're looking for someone to convine you to be happy with the decision of helping others. That's what all your comments here read like. :)
I'm not surprised you're from the Bay Area, given that.
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/extra/eng/ppm/124a.html
It is in fact called community involvement! It was my mistake.
You are 100% correct and it's actually 40 hours of mandatory community involvement. [1] Everyone around me just called it volunteer hours and I co-opted it. Thank you for pointing it out. :)
It all depends on the interviewer. Anyone claiming different is selling you bullshit. The purpose of the interview and how they are actually used in practice is all on the interviewer.
anyway, if governments only followed everyone's desires no-one would pay taxes
Maybe in America? Not so in other countries.
Where you choose to help out is up to you?
Are you saying poor people do not raise their children to hunger for success?
"Tech people" usually don't think outside of the context of producing code.
My fear is it also makes you the first to go.
Nobody born with average intelligence is doomed to a life of poverty.
Have you ever interacted with the under-privileged? Plenty of smart people feel their lives are doomed because of the way society is structured against them.
As far as the government's concerned I'm a programmer.
I don't think so. It's been a bit since I read up on Visa stuff (and I imagine it doesn't matter to you as an American citizen) but there are distinctions between programmer / software developer / etc.
I can't remember a time in a Canadian public school where I was asked to do something useful for somebody. I think more of that would have helped a lot in terms of motivation.
I mean we had mandatory volunteer hours? But in general, yes, school is just a day-care and nothing more.
HN is full of the relatively privileged/wealthy. They don't need to care in their eyes.
Sounds like business plans I can get behind. I find it hard to believe the large-scale goals that are common in SV.
Thanks for the info!
I just saw this today: https://zeit.co/now#frequently-asked-questions
I haven't had enough time to read into it (nor do I have enough experience to evaluate), but it seems like what you're talking about?
Can you speak more on the ATL tech scene? I've always been interested.
I also stopped using Uber and try to get my friends not to do the same.
It sucks when official subtitles for even movies like Your Name can sound off to someone who has only picked up a few words / phrases from watching anime. Same with popular games like Persona 5. :(
It's the only interpretation after the initial clarification.
Same with me, but Trump supporters are in low volume in areas where you want to live anyway. :)