RickJWagner

I hope (but am not confident of it) that the article will encourage people to be more humble in their assertions. The world will be a better place.

I agree. If Trump's shocking upset from the right isn't evidence enough, then consider the equally shocking defeat of a 10-term (10 term!) incumbent by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the left.…

I usually disagree with Cher on political matters, but on this one she has Tweeted a good point. Cher is urging 'her side' (Democrats) to yield and allow the sought-after funding. Her reaso…

There is some great advice here, and it simply echoes what is available elsewhere. Saving and investing a small portion of your income will make you rich over time. Especially for those working in te…

I thought of Oak (later 'Java'), too.

I remember when the US government distributed cheese to low-income families. It was a good move-- it moved product from farmers, and it fed the hungry. The cheese was good, too. My family had some.

I'm glad to see the invisible force field that protects tenured professors is breached. I've known at least one that should have been fired, but wasn't. It's good to see they…

Wow, that's got an amazing line: Bill Gates predicts that by 2035, “there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.” I'd never heard that. Great news!

.Net Core has come up in the shadow of .NET (Windows version) and JEE. The latter two have lost momentum and a bunch of other languages/frameworks are nibbling at market share. If it weren'…

It's not necessarily bad advice. Some credible financial advisors are now saying houses are not investments.

I think there is some good advice here, for young people. But also a caveat. I moved around a lot when I was younger, and now live several hundred miles from my hometown. In my new place, I have fri…

I don't think we'll ever be able to succeed at that. We should work hard to strive for equality of opportunity. We should avoid trying to guarantee equality of end result. (Because it'…

I'm of mixed opinion on this one. On one hand, I think 'That person earned their money, they can spend it as they see fit. If the kids splurge it, it still gets distributed.' On the ot…

Sure. There can be many reasons why somebody doesn't end up with a pile of cash. They might have had a catastrophic illness, or made sub-optimal investments, or maybe got scammed. But that'…

An excellent point. A look at the annual "Golden Fleece" awards will show that the government doesn't spend the current revenue wisely. Why add more?

Those people don't 'do nothing'. Most have worked hard, denied immediate gratification, saved and invested. They did their hard work log ago.

A lot of it has to do with the company you work for-- different corporate compensation strategies will leave you with differing amounts of savable income. So change jobs if you aren't making pro…

I suspect that if such a change were enacted a lot of money would simply flow out of visibility. The siren song of sweet, sweet cash is so strong that even those you'd think would be happy tax pa…

I'd hate that. I've never been rich, but I am a saver and I'm on the path to financial independence. To a large extent, my plan (the same plan advocated by Warren Buffet, Jack Bogle, …

I think there will be problems in housing, but not the problems this article describes. (Yes, I am over 40. And no, a 5% mortgage is not remotely problematic.) With increased automation and wage str…

Hacker News paydirt! Nerdy enough (and well written enough) that I'll add this blog to my RSS reader. 2019 is off to a good start!

What a great story. Good for Woods! I'm going to look that Podcast up, I hadn't heard of it.

What a nice article. I'm a programmer living in a rural area (and am usually politically conservative.) I really didn't expect to see such an article in the NYT, especially authored by a p…

A healthy, happy, and prosperous 2019 to all my Hacker News friends (including those I've yet to meet.)

We are mostly tech people here, right? Given that, I have a suggestion. We should all be smart, compensated well, etc. If you worry about things like this, study what's been said by Warren Buff…

I'm amazed that Corvair engines are being put into airplanes. Wow, the Corvair went out of production in the 1960s! I'm a little happy about this-- longevity of use, the same materials bein…

Awesome. It's good to hear of government spending that results in long service life, lessons learned, and value for the taxpayer.

Interesting article, but why single out cosmetology? Artists, writers, musicians, etc. all pay hefty fees for school and most don't make great salaries. This is true for public schools, many hav…

As a programmer in my 50s, I offer younger HN participants this idea: You will get old (if you are lucky). This will be of concern to us all at some point. I know of nobody who quit early and liv…