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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.

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?