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>> "How to Live a Successful Life" This advice need not come from a rich person. The answer is to be surrounded with deep and valuable human relationships.

I'm not successful, but my strategy for getting there is specific.... -- never put yourself in the position to go bankrupt -- stay in the game - keep your overheads down to the min…

To learn to listen to other people, instead of just waiting to talk - that's an ongoing problem. To understand what "controlling behaviour" means. To empathise, and see oneself fro…

This is a good intro to pen testing: https://www.sgsgroup.com.hk/en/news/2014/02/general-requirem...

Nevertheless, if you find the right one who is a fit to you, they can be an enormous help.

My primary advice would be that therapists/counsellors are NOT all the same. You need to find one who works for you, and it is a very individual thing. Actively plan to try 4 of th…

>>> Several thousand armed people acting in concert without detection? You haven't heard of tourists?

No invasion would be needed. All thats needed is to get several thousand armed people to take control of Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne parliament and hold all the politicians unde…

After a lifetime of being anti nuke, I do now believe Australia has to "nuke up". I also believe now that we need at least 2 very large U.S. bases on our soil, and if the U.S. aren…

Australia couldn't be more eager to spend tens of billions on this white elephant. But of course anything the U.S. says is good for Australia just has to be, right? We'd have been …

I'm no longer interested in trying argue that experience results in higher productivity - if you have to say that then you're already in a situation where they believe young is bet…

I didn't say anything about wanting to work for a company that does good or valuable things. I just don't believe in the mission. I wouldn't work in certain industries like gamblin…

I want to be, and deserve to be, very well paid. Do not mistake my lack of belief in the company mission for a lack of interest in capitalism or personal financial gain.

The real problem is that as an "older" programmer (50) I am probably the best I have been, but I no longer believe in the missions of pretty much any company, I'm not interested in…

Hi there. I'm thinking of trying to earn money by doing in-person training on software development to software developers. I'm wondering is there anyone on HN who knows the softwar…

As climate change becomes more and more pronounced, will the rich around the world all head for Australia and New Zealand?

Why is it that the U.S. is so hard on drugs, unless it is the giant drug manufacturing companies selling legal opiates. Double standards are an everyday thing in western society, b…

I agree.... the API should hopefully be consistent, and this is more important still for APIs consumed by third parties, but for your internal projects - just get the damn thing to…

My latest project doesn't use REST. It just talks directly to AWS Lambda functions. What a relief.... so quick to get things done, no pointless definition and specification and no …