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Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by xchaotic »

marcamillion wrote: post #12
skate22 wrote: post #7

Lifetime unrestricted high speed data plan with global coverage

Partially a cop-out. All "lifetime access to" responses, aren't realistic responses.

Depends on how you define 'lifetime'. Sadly I've seen many SaaS businesses dia and with htem the 'lifetime' access. Otoh my Plex Pass value is still holding strong. Finally if we're talking true lifetime, it can be averaged out to the median lifespan of subscribers, in my case $10k 'lifetime' it would work out to <$25/month

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by xchaotic »

agitator wrote: post #17
xchaotic wrote: post #13

I would pay $10k for a share in an honest, low fee property investment. I can't afford losing liquidity to buy another whole property, but I'd like to invest a proportion of my savings against rental/commercial properties, as directly as possible, with as few intermediares and with many safeguards for bad times.

Yeah, I want to do this as well. When Tesla announced the gigafactory in Reno, I really wanted to pool together with others to buy an apartment complex or something.

something similar could also work when Amazon announces HQ2

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by xchaotic »

agitator wrote: post #17
xchaotic wrote: post #13

I would pay $10k for a share in an honest, low fee property investment. I can't afford losing liquidity to buy another whole property, but I'd like to invest a proportion of my savings against rental/commercial properties, as directly as possible, with as few intermediares and with many safeguards for bad times.

Yeah, I want to do this as well. When Tesla announced the gigafactory in Reno, I really wanted to pool together with others to buy an apartment complex or something.

Did the property prices spike up as expected?

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by thedirt0115 »

hitsurume wrote: post #9

I'd pay $10,000 per eye to fix my crappy eyesight, its so bad that Lasik isn't an option for me. I'd pay $10,000 for a self driving car, because I have crappy eyesight and can't actually drive a car.

You should consider flying to Japan/Korea to get Toric ICL if it's an option. It's not FDA approved for the US yet, but I've had friends that did it, and not one of them have any regrets. It's been a couple years since, so I wouldn't be surprised if they had even newer/better options available.

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by xchaotic »

fludlight wrote: post #20
xchaotic wrote: post #13

I would pay $10k for a share in an honest, low fee property investment. I can't afford losing liquidity to buy another whole property, but I'd like to invest a proportion of my savings against rental/commercial properties, as directly as possible, with as few intermediares and with many safeguards for bad times.

Have you considered REITs?

I have looked at a few, the fees and the opaque structure scared me away. I would like the control, of being able to sell my share on the open market at any point (at close to face value, obviously) and being able to benefit from a proportion of rental income where ROI < 20 years.

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by thedirt0115 »

This is super niche, but a service that takes a video upload (or youtube link) of a professional pool/billiards match and generates overhead shot diagrams for every shot of the match. Why do I want this? Diagramming shots is the most tedious part of making a book where you analyze shots from pro matches -- this has been done by hand before and sells for ~$50 -- https://www.amazon.com/Capelle-9-Ball-Archer-vs-Reyes/dp/096... . I've played with this a bit, taking photos of a table, doing transforms to get an overhead layout (with OpenCV perspective transforms and Hough detection), but it's never come out quite right. I also want motion tracking of balls so you can generate arrows for where the balls went, but honestly, just the static "balls at rest" diagrams would be worth it.

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by carbocation »

xchaotic wrote: post #23
agitator wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I want to do this as well. When Tesla announced the gigafactory in Reno, I really wanted to pool together with others to buy an apartment complex or something.

Did the property prices spike up as expected?

I'd say not really. The graph doesn't seem to be linkable, but if you add "Las Vegas" as a comparator, both Fernley and Vegas moved in lockstep. Vegas is way too far away to have its prices affected by the Gigafactory, so I'd say that there was no discernible effect. Or, at least, a very modest effect.

https://www.zillow.com/fernley-nv/home-values/

Re: Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?

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Post by secabeen »

thedirt0115 wrote: post #24
hitsurume wrote: post #9

I'd pay $10,000 per eye to fix my crappy eyesight, its so bad that Lasik isn't an option for me. I'd pay $10,000 for a self driving car, because I have crappy eyesight and can't actually drive a car.

You should consider flying to Japan/Korea to get Toric ICL if it's an option. It's not FDA approved for the US yet, but I've had friends that did it, and not one of them have any regrets. It's been a couple years since, so I wouldn't be surprised if they had even newer/better options available.

Do you have references for doctors there that focus on medical tourists?
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