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cheetoson Interview with Mr. Money Mustache

> 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

cheetos on Developer UX at Google

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

cheetos on Three areas where self-driving cars will bring new opportunities

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.

cheetos on Baltimore State Attorney Drops Dozens of Cases: Body Cam Shows Drug-Planting

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.

cheetos on SoundCloud's Collapse

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.

cheetos on Life Inside Hong Kong’s ‘Coffin Cubicles’

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.

cheetos on SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities

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

cheetos on SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities

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.

cheetos on Ways a VC says no without saying no

Got it. Thanks :)

cheetos on Ways a VC says no without saying no

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 :)

cheetos on Ways a VC says no without saying no

> 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?

cheetos on US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows

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.

cheetos on Selling t-shirts beats selling mobile apps

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.

cheetos on If companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders

> 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?

cheetos on Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?

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.

cheetos on An alarm about the influence of standardized tests on American society

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!

cheetos on How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation

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

cheetos on How to Achieve Polished UI

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.

cheetos on Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

Well, did she do the cooking or not?

cheetos on A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

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

cheetos on Ask HN: Thinking about a year off from work to travel. Am I making a mistake?

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.

cheetos on An off-grid social network

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

cheetos on DNA tests show Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken

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

cheetos on Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee

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

cheetos on Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

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.

cheetos on New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables

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.

cheetos on New Wyoming bill forbids utilities from using renewables

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!

cheetos on Stanford Degrees in Statistics

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.

cheetos on Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality

Thanks!

cheetos on Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality

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