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Substantive discussion on twitter?

This behaviour by the media seems to result in (approximately) good incentives for billionares.

I'm sure many billionares are only doing it for the PR - but if they want to give away $4B for good PR then isn't that a still a benefit to society?

It's funny seeing the perspective of charity being shown in various comments in this thread. Apparently it's a competition to see how much 'sacrifice' you're making. Apparently it doesn't count if the giver also gets some benefit (PR?) from it. Never mind the the supposed goal, which is to help others.

The guy was genuinely curious and you go ahead and respond like this. Step back for a bit. What did your comment actually accomplish?

I think many of the snide comments are in response to this:

"Hearing MacKenzie giving away 4B of her 60B is not really impressive because you can live pretty nice with even 1B."

His story was fine as it is. Why did he feel the need to compare himself against MacKenzie?

The other comments seemed more like curiosity than anything else.

Sounds like you two should stop wasting time with easy courses. If you are as brilliant as you say, there is no way you can't get permission to skip prerequisites or transfer out.

Come on, the HN snobbery is annoying but so is this reverse snobbery/false modesty.

Draft or not, the main ideas and arguments are already clear.