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Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

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Post by iffycan »

lzy wrote: post #120
iffycan wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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May I ask if there are any limitations for the untimed, free trial as provided on your site? If none, what is stopping from any of your users from using the trial indefinitely? But at $20 for a unlimited lifetime license, it seems affordable enough for me to want to try using it with my SO.

No limitations. After a few months, you'll get nagged a bit, but the trial version has every feature the full version has. There's nothing but your penchant for honesty stopping you from using it indefinitely :)

Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

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Post by StavrosK »

Jemaclus wrote: post #52

Exercising. I run 3x/week now, and I sleep better, I feel better, I'm thinner, and I snagged a wife. Should have started running back in high school instead of spending my days playing MUDs. (Not really. I don't regret anything... but I could have made more time for exercising.) Also, playing guitar. I'm hearing impaired, and my audiologist told my parents I could never be in the band at school, so they never pressed…

> I don't want to go for a run? I'll run for five minutes. If I still don't want to run, I can stop.

That seems like it's missing the point, though. When I don't want to go running, say, it's the actual getting ready and starting to run that I don't like. If I have gone through 95% of the effort to get ready and get into that whole headspace and started doing it, it's really easy to just keep it up.

Ie it's not the "lifting weights" part of the gym that I don't want to do, it's the "getting out of bed" part.

Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

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Post by Jemaclus »

StavrosK wrote: post #132
Jemaclus wrote: post #52

Exercising. I run 3x/week now, and I sleep better, I feel better, I'm thinner, and I snagged a wife. Should have started running back in high school instead of spending my days playing MUDs. (Not really. I don't regret anything... but I could have made more time for exercising.) Also, playing guitar. I'm hearing impaired, and my audiologist told my parents I could never be in the band at school, so they never pressed…

> I don't want to go for a run? I'll run for five minutes. If I still don't want to run, I can stop. That seems like it's missing the point, though. When I don't want to go running, say, it's the actual getting ready and starting to run that I don't like. If I have gone through 95% of the effort to get ready and get into that whole headspace and started doing it, it's really easy to just keep it up. Ie it's not the "…

That actually IS the point. The point is that I convince myself to do the hassle by saying "It's only for five minutes," but obviously after five minutes, you've already done the hard part, so you might as well do the rest. It's just a psychological trick to actually start doing the thing I don't want to do.

Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

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Post by closeparen »

StavrosK wrote: post #132
Jemaclus wrote: post #52

Exercising. I run 3x/week now, and I sleep better, I feel better, I'm thinner, and I snagged a wife. Should have started running back in high school instead of spending my days playing MUDs. (Not really. I don't regret anything... but I could have made more time for exercising.) Also, playing guitar. I'm hearing impaired, and my audiologist told my parents I could never be in the band at school, so they never pressed…

> I don't want to go for a run? I'll run for five minutes. If I still don't want to run, I can stop. That seems like it's missing the point, though. When I don't want to go running, say, it's the actual getting ready and starting to run that I don't like. If I have gone through 95% of the effort to get ready and get into that whole headspace and started doing it, it's really easy to just keep it up. Ie it's not the "…

Hmm this seems exactly backwards to me, running is okay (even sort of pleasant) until a few minutes in and then it's extremely not.

Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

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Post by 0898 »

Festro wrote: post #72
0898 wrote: post #14

Automating cold outreach emails. I organise an event for people who run agencies in London (www.agencysummit.co.uk). I use bots to find relevant people on LinkedIn, and then pay somebody on Fiverr to find their email addresses. Then, I put them into Reply.io and send short two sentence emails asking people if they'd like to check out the event. It works. Two or three times a day, I get push notifications telling me s…

Wow, illegal marketing. Go you. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/electroni...

"You can send marketing emails or texts to companies." Am I missing something?

Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

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Post by fosco »

Toast_25 wrote: post #106
fosco wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate on the last sentence? Serious question, unsure of the seriousness of statement.

His other post states: > I make $3000 a month committing cybercrime EDIT: AFAIK a decent threat hunter or RE can earn about 3x that legally in the US.

I think I am just shocked someone is okay with saying they make a living off screwing others

yes, that is a low amount of money in the US but in a place like greece, you would be doing pretty well. (only know because I visited this past summer) I just cannot fathom how any of that money can be 'taken' and spent with any conscious at all. but I suppose he/she is not alone...

Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

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Post by Toast_25 »

fosco wrote: post #136
Toast_25 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His other post states: > I make $3000 a month committing cybercrime EDIT: AFAIK a decent threat hunter or RE can earn about 3x that legally in the US.

I think I am just shocked someone is okay with saying they make a living off screwing others yes, that is a low amount of money in the US but in a place like greece, you would be doing pretty well. (only know because I visited this past summer) I just cannot fathom how any of that money can be 'taken' and spent with any conscious at all. but I suppose he/she is not alone...

I figure it's along the same lines of being a sex worker or something like that. I would gladly be one if it weren't for the fact that I (probably) wouldn't be able to work in tech and would have to live with social stigma attached.

Same goes for cyber-crime. I want to be on the good side of cyber, and I can't do that if I'm a criminal. I also don't want to live my whole life looking over my shoulder over fear of something I did in the past. This happened to malwaretech and they're not even sure he actually committed the crime.

Re: Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

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Post by Toast_25 »

Tharkun wrote: post #130
Toast_25 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His other post states: > I make $3000 a month committing cybercrime EDIT: AFAIK a decent threat hunter or RE can earn about 3x that legally in the US.

Sure, but 3k USD/month in Greece is a fortune.

Yeah, but remote work is also a thing. This is why I'm planning to move to a country with a stronger currency and retire to somewhere where it's weaker. I could live a very good life with the same amount of money that would afford me an OK life in other parts of the world. Without having to fear being persecuted by LEO.
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