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Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by OJFord » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 12:59 AM UTC

ShannonAlther wrote: post #54

redeemedfadi wrote: post #29

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You always remember the successful investments you didn't make, but not the unsuccessful ones. Think of all the money you didn't lose making bad investments.

If you're a little faster than average on the draw and have money to burn, the profits from the successful investments outweigh the money lost on the unsuccessful ones. E.g. if you have $50k, and spend it on five companies, only one of those companies has to be Apple for you to make way more than you started with...

Apple isn't a '1 in 5' company, though.

Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by joshstrange » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 1:29 PM UTC

iamatworknow wrote: post #77

joshstrange wrote: post #76

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I mined 100BTC on my CPU in like the summer of 2010 solo mining. I attempted to do GPU mining but the tooling was very specific at the time and I wasn't really that interested. I didn't even fully understand BTC at the time past "Digital Currency", "Proof of work", "Run minner = get BTC". I want to say the block size was 50 at the time so mining 2 block all on mine own on a CPU was pretty impressive IMHO.

That's basically the state I was at as well. My exact thought was something like, "A currency that you make by running a program like 'Folding@Home'? Might as well try." Even if I didn't actually mine a ton, it still would be neat to find it. I know it's gotta be there somewhere.

I know mine is long gone, my old gaming rig was what I mined it all on and I've rebuilt that machine with different OS's a million times over since I mined it and rarely backed up anything but maybe some media. Everything I cared about was on my laptop.

Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by hevisko » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 2:38 PM UTC

atonse wrote: post #6

My wife always says that growing up, all her dad and brother used to talk about at the dinner table was "I should've invested in that stock when it was cheaper!" or "I should've sold when it was higher!" I feel that way about Bitcoin/others. It's always regret all the way. It's like buying a stock. I had a chance to mine lots of bitcoins in 2011... never got around to doing it. It's now the same as "I should've bough…

My grand dad quoted a "mentor" about stocks:

It's a sorry game! - You're sorry you buy - You are sorry you did NOT buy - You're sorry you sold - You are sorry you did NOT sell it!

Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by Aldvar » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 6:40 PM UTC

DennisP wrote: post #65

max_ wrote: post #62

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Yup, I bought a ETH & $6 late last year during the spam attacks and panick sold at $15-$12 Early this year. Now the pice is $200+ per ETH Now I am looking foward to RChain https://www.rchain.coop

Interesting, I thought RChain was dead after they split from Synereo and I didn't see any news on the rchain subreddit. Will definitely keep an eye on this.

Would probably skip RChain if I were you, founder is a flake. Synereo in the meantime are on the cusp of releasing an actual working product soon, which would make AMPs a much more viable investment. Just my two cents.

Re: Ask HN: Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?

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Post by siegel » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 2:58 AM UTC

maxsavin wrote: post #9

You might want to ask a lawyer to subpoena them. Time is ticking - I believe backups are held for only a bit of time.

This is probably the only real hope. Problem is you cannot subpoena Google without first filing a lawsuit. So, you'd need to come up with a legal basis to file a lawsuit in which this document would be relevant. And then you'd have to serve a subpoena on Google.

You could potential have a lawyer serve a document preservation request on Google before a lawsuit is filed. But I'm not optimistic they'd listen to it.