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False dichotomy. It's fine to work at a place like GS as long as you don't get sucked in by the culture. Build up savings, and then launch your startup... the savings have to come …

1. Seems to neglect time-value of money, which leads to overstated ROIs. 2. It also neglects that the people going to, e.g., MIT and Harvard, are making more money largely because …

I've never said this of a fellow startup, but I hope in earnest that they fail, not out of contempt, but because I don't want ever to have to sit in a seat like that. Note: "below …

If you have a scholarship or your parents will pay for you to go to a good school, then you should definitely go. College isn't just about classes and coursework, which are only a …

I know that. I was saying that in reference to his claim that 55% of Yale students receive financial aid, which is a bit of a red herring, because the vast majority of Americans qu…

Enough people with some degree of need are passing the "extracurricular hurdles" that 55% of Yalies receive financial aid. The vast, vast, vast majority of people in that 55% are n…

In fact, they offer incredibly good financial aid packages to people not even remotely poor (families earning over 100k still get discounts). Thus, very few end up paying the stick…

"Diminishing returns" also means next to nothing. Technically speaking, it means that the second derivative of output with respect to input is negative, when we care about the firs…

These are completely different markets. The majority of car consumers just want reliable transportation; the car is essentially a commodity. If Japanese cars are of higher quality,…

There's a difference between expecting the service you paid for and being a demanding prick. Expecting that a financial advisor somehow get your child into a prestigious preschool …

I agree with the gist of what you're saying, but "their children" who have looted and ruined the nation aren't just Baby Boomers, but mostly conservative, white, well-to-do Baby Bo…

This could have just as easily been written by a Gen Xer or a Late Boomer. The problem is that people who are 25 now are comparing their economic fortune not to those of people bor…

The problem isn't generational. It's class warfare. Plenty of Baby Boomers have been fucked just as bad as our generation has. The worst villains are mostly Baby Boomers, but just …

I agree. The rot in our society started with the Reagan Era. 2008 didn't make it suddenly appear; it just brought it back to the surface. The OP has a just grievance, but she's com…

On formal principles, we'd expect that robustness and expressiveness are inversely related, on the principle that low-entropy data can be recovered with better fidelity than dense …

So the CEO is also micromanaging you down to lines of code off the internet. Leave as soon as you can. Start looking for jobs today.

Let's get real about something: they're business guys, and you're the technical muscle, right? You seem young, and you're probably as good at sizing them up (note your "great peopl…