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Master's in CS: Worthless. Sorry, but it's the bare truth. If you picked up some new skills, great, but the degree itself has no value.

Browne wrote this at at time when regular people holding international accounts was no big thing. Also, he was quite wealthy himself, so I'm not sure he had any idea what "regular …

Harry Browne would be considered an enemy of the state and excommunicated by most of the members on this site.

Agreed, but I would add (if my account is not shadow-banned) that $100K/yr. is not that much money anymore. It was in the 1980s, but not now. The bait and switch on taxes is obviou…

I will state, however, that I did make some interesting contributions to knowledge and even helped invent some things we all see every day in modern web browsers. Unfortunately, my…

Yeah, mine hangs on the wall, unused. The pay would have been half what I made just doing software development. Oh well, I enjoyed my 20s and poverty was hard at times but didn't s…

What the hell does that even mean? When my father had trouble with his union doing illegal shit in the 1980s, the Dept. of Labor back then was useless, as was the NLRB, and when th…

If true, there are many people that I see at Wal Mart and Costco who are eating enough for about ten people.

Okay, but what I don't see is a real campaign against food producers padding out their products with crap! It's everywhere--not just corn syrup, although that's a huge one, but eve…

Yes, and if they didn't do that nobody would want to be outside for most of the summer. The mosquitos in MN are bad, really really bad. Some summers are worse than others, but ther…

Exactly. It's what humanity set out to do--we applied chemistry and other sciences to the problem and solved it and now somebody is complaining. Someone who didn't get malaria.

Yeah, besides, Harvey Weinstein and all the other Limousine Liberals will happily fly in their private jets and do as they please so what difference does your minute sacrifice even…

8+ Billion people and rising. That's all you really need to understand.

Or we could, you know, clean up the damn pollution.

Access to capital in a capitalist economy isn't important?

I think that the level of corruption worldwide has reached such a state that it is amazing civilization doesn't collapse.

Plus, we have all now seen without any shadow of a doubt that the FBI mainly exists as a political enforcement apparatus and not so much as some kind of national investigative agen…

Actually, on 2nd read, his chute didn't fully open but was slowing him down some. Then at the very last moment it unfurled? The writing is not clear, but it makes it sound like his…

Go learn Clojure or any LISP language and solve some problems using it. Watch the videos by Neal Ford and Rich Hickey. Think about your data. Then come back and reflect on it.

Lots of things are crimes in the US, but if you're part of the "special" class, you will not be prosecuted for them, e.g. Hillary Clinton. As far as ageism goes, companies know exa…

There is no such thing, not at any of the higher paying roles. I'm 6 months in to a new job right now and although I had some early wins for them, I'm definitely still learning my …

The US Government can't find its own ass with both hands and a flashlight! If they're your hope, you're in a for a rough time. I think we all need to accept the fact that this plan…

Sorry but, "millionaire" in USD is not rich. Might make you upper middle class, but that's it. Maybe $10M and up?

I often find this to have been the case. Gates wasn't poor either you know. Neither was Jobs. Not poor like I was in the sense that if all else failed, they could still fall back o…

That was before banker class of billionaires got their greasy paws on it. Nowadays, in the US, higher education is debt serfdom for the majority of higher ed customers.