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Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

atonse wrote: post #286
petilon wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> rich enough to never work again Congrats... but be careful. Some young people underestimate the amount of money needed to "never work again". If you're not working then you don't have group health insurance. You're in the individual market, which often has crappy insurance providers. If you have a serious health issue, and get into a dispute with the insurance provider, your illness can cost millions. If you have >…

Thank goodness for Obamacare (at least in the mid-Atlantic US). Before Obamacare, individual plans were absolute shit (my individual plan wouldn't have covered my wife's pregnancy with our first kid... her job's insurance did). Thanks to Obamacare, individual plans have the same coverage as employer plans. Without Obamacare I couldn't have started my company which now employs 9 people in well paid tech jobs (without…

Obamacare is utter garbage and costs ridiculous amounts of money. It impoverishes poor people far more than it helps. They should've provided a tax credit to people who pay in with it. Instead they just reduce AGI. What a joke. Honestly the best thing Trump did was make that no longer mandatory or face a penalty. It was a rammed through system democrats did just to pat themselves on the back. Quite literally one of the biggest slap in the faces to the working class in a long time.

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Post by xelxebar »

In the middle of an RV build. Hoping to move full-time into it within a couple months. Neat features:

- 3 separate "rooms"

- reconfigurable/expandable floorspace

- reverse osmosis circulatory water filtration system

- 30kWh battery with solar, EV, and alternator charging

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Post by alanbernstein »

I've been doing hobby projects with laser-cut acrylic (plexiglass) for a while. I recently bought a big roll of mylar, which is thin, strong, clear, flexible, dimensionally stable, and even food-safe. It's kind of a perfect material for laser cutting, because the thinness means it cuts quickly, and the strength means you can create pretty robust 3D objects by scoring, folding, and assembling using tab+slot designs.

I know other people use mylar for laser cutting projects, but it might commonly be more along the lines of stencils. There is some overlap with papercraft design, but the material constraints are different, so it's not quite the same thing. I'm coming up with design techniques myself from scratch, and it's going fine, but I feel like I may be reinventing the wheel. I discovered https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/ recently, which looks like a great resource, but I haven't bothered to boot up Windows to check it out yet.

Thanks for asking!

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Post by Aeolun »

atomicnumber3 wrote: post #127

I'm working on a 2d multiplayer game where you play as the leader of an MMO guild. I'm shooting for it to feel like playing WoW without actually having to play WoW all day. Same dopamine levers, same time horizons, but instead of being the guy farming Frost Lotus and Saronite, you're the guy telling people to go farm Frost Lotus and Saronite and making sure the alchemist makes the right amounts of Flask of Endless Ra…

Sounds fun. I’d play this :)

Especially the part about not actually playing WoW. Have as much time to play a game as you have to make it.

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Post by iposoldier »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Same age, made $4.5 million in an IPO. Decided to join the military. It was worth it, would recommend with several key caveats. Remember, most FAANGs pay you your tech salary while you’re training. A lot easier to get smoked by a Drill SGT when you know you’re making 10x their salary while doing those push ups :)

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Post by waalo »

debruinf wrote: post #228

Super frustrated by the state of videos for kids on youtube, especially in the arts and crafts department, i decided to launch a channel and start creating my own content. Basically, all videos start half decent but for some reason end in a big noisy mess, weird sounds, spoiling food, questionable product placements, zero creativity and always incentivize more watching and trapping viewers in the infinite ‘next video…

Good start. Keep at it!

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Post by ttonelli »

waldohatesyou wrote: post #319

I wish I had something interesting to say here but honestly, kind of depressed. Not the clinical kind of course but more the aimless 24 year old kind. I've been working at this startup (or perhaps scaleup would be a better term considering they're already worth 7 billion dollars). It's great career-wise. I'm learning a lot and I feel like I'm being compensated fairly. But I thought my life would feel "complete" once…

I would recommend reading about stoicism and mindfulness. For me they felt like those things that are obvious but are super helpful to see explicitly stated. And have helped me learn to enjoy life more and set priorities for where/with whom I spend my most precious resource, my time.
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