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Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by binaryfinery »

TheSOB88 wrote: post #425
binaryfinery wrote: post #420

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Well either I'm stupid and/or completely inexperienced, or I have a really good system. I take it you assumed the former. :-) Thank you for answering. I initially thought you were saying that the "go for money vs go for open source" question was a joke.

Just sounds like you have a bad case of "shit's easy" syndrome, as Yegge said when I was reading him yesterday.

Never said it was going to be easy. My question, in fact, was whether I should have it take longer by doing it myself, or open it up to the community to get it done faster.

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Post by Concours »

Psyonic wrote: post #258
Concours wrote: post #113

turning my ventures profitable enough to do whatever I want, whenever and wherever I want. Then do a couple of Kids. If I could just find out how to do tweens, priceless. Bottleneck: have two kids at once, and gain some 2 years (time between first and second kid)

Solution: Two mothers.

yeah, great idea, but big cons: that's probably the fastest way to not see my kids grow, and loose my wife.

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Post by dnsworks »

donw wrote: post #409
dnsworks wrote: post #211

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Speaking of which, I'm hoping to visit my friend in Singapore in Sept or October, mind if I swing by and crash in your hallway or something? (or meet in Tokyo and show me around? :)

My apartment does have a hallway, in addition to a bedroom and a kitchen. Unfortunately, they're all the same room . I'd have more space if this place said 'Adidas' on the side. That said, of course I'll meet you up in Tokyo and show you the city! As long as I'm in-country, of course; I'll be back in the US for August, and I'm not sure where I'll be for October and December.

Oh man if you're going to be in town in August, why don't you plan on crashing at my place for a weekend? I think you'd get along well with my new roommate, and if the timing is right a few other engineers will be in town hanging out as well.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by dnsworks »

donw wrote: post #409
dnsworks wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of which, I'm hoping to visit my friend in Singapore in Sept or October, mind if I swing by and crash in your hallway or something? (or meet in Tokyo and show me around? :)

My apartment does have a hallway, in addition to a bedroom and a kitchen. Unfortunately, they're all the same room . I'd have more space if this place said 'Adidas' on the side. That said, of course I'll meet you up in Tokyo and show you the city! As long as I'm in-country, of course; I'll be back in the US for August, and I'm not sure where I'll be for October and December.

Oh man if you're going to be in town in August, why don't you plan on crashing at my place for a weekend? I think you'd get along well with my new roommate, and if the timing is right a few other engineers will be in town hanging out as well.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by TheSOB88 »

binaryfinery wrote: post #431
TheSOB88 wrote: post #425

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just sounds like you have a bad case of "shit's easy" syndrome, as Yegge said when I was reading him yesterday.

Never said it was going to be easy. My question, in fact, was whether I should have it take longer by doing it myself, or open it up to the community to get it done faster.

Good luck...

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Post by rphlx »

lovskogen wrote: post #430
rphlx wrote: post #388

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Same. Running a business is not easy, but it's the easiest way to get there IMO. It takes like 5-10M in capital to make 10k/mo "safely" on a long term basis now, which rules out an investment-only strategy for almost everybody.

Why do you need five million dollars for that?

It's hard to live off passive investment income b/c world governments are intent on shafting savers to bail out the debtor majority. "High yield" FDIC-insured savings accounts pay like 1.2% now in nominal terms but their return will surely be negative in real terms.

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Post by raintrees »

SethWilson wrote: post #406
raintrees wrote: post #354

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I expressed interest in same. My wife bought me a nice introductory model (german-made) but the pressure required (and angle of attack at my throat!!!) to get any hairs cut scares the dickens out of me. Now it is slowly rusting in my bathroom...

Exactly why I've been putting it off. I thought about paying an old school barber for an hour of his time to show me the ropes and the "gotchas"

So long as his name is not Sweeny :)
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