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OP is a homosexual ( pls suggest the correct word here) so i think its of special importance to her. i would bet most ppl won't put "cheeto inaugurated" on their life in weeks.
> pls suggest the correct word here Simply dropping the "a", turning the word from a noun into an adjective, would make the phrase sound more friendly.
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That seems very extreme. I remember my entire childhood from about 4 years old on.
I agree with the other poster. You are definitely on the extreme side here. Good for you, really, I would love to have your superpower, but you are not the norm.
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> The first ~1000 are spent in the the very limited tutorial area. I think it's kinda strange that you're saying up to age 19 is "the very limited tutorial area", as if it doesn't count. Up to age 3 or 4, before you have stable memory, perhaps I could understand, but I'm well, well into middle age and I think of some of the time between say 10-19 as the most vivid in terms of my memories, friends, direction of my lif…
I scarcely recognize the person I was at 19 as the same person as me. I have almost no recollection of school except for maybe a couple of dozen moments and a handful - no more than 4 or so - acquaintances. They were friends at the time, but we went to different colleges in different towns, we're not close now. I remember books I read, but they're detached from a timeline. I remember programming - that was the most f…
I'm in my 40s and I remember my school days vividly. I remember like ~20-30 specific lessons and events from 4th grade alone.
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That's a good point, I make plenty of music, and every now and then I release a really small game. I can't imagine more than 100 people have played them, but in a strange way that's okay. It was never for other people.
I'd love to check out your games, if you'd be willing to post. I've spent 10 years dabbling in indie game dev when I was young, there's something nostalgic about seeing people's projects. Never published anything myself btw, it always stayed firmly in demo stage haha.
I'm moving towards open source now, I do publish some projects under a different HN handle.
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My biggest failure has been not getting an extreme income ( 300k TC a year +) before 30. I had planned to retire by 40 and be done with this work nonsense. Now I'm in my mid 30s and that doesn't seem possible. However I will say if you have a highly variable income ( one year you make 100$ an hour, the next year you have no work), you should max out your 401k during the good times. Having 30k in retirement funds that…
Look for jobs that have a good match and allow Roth megabackdoor. Because having 70k a year in retirement funds is somewhat life changing.
I had a really good year where I just neglected to set my 401k up. So much money wasted on taxes.
I'm not really trying to retire in the US, I don't intend on having a family. I think a million or so, might be enough.
5% yield on 700k is 35k per year which is enough to live well in much of the world.
Very cool, thank you so much for sharing! One thing that hit me as a European is that you consider president inaugurations interesting enough to put in there! I mean, its a great point of reference, but still interesting to me. I couldn't tell you from when to when Merkel was chancellor, and I couldn't care less.
For me, I employ presidential terms as memorable 4 year labels, much the same as Olympiads (Beijing 2008, Sydney 2000, Barcelona 1992). It’s got zero to do with (geo) political influence. The Olympiads work as point in time “beats”, while presidential terms are “long tones”. Weird memory functions.
Gina Trapani! That's a name I haven't heard in a long time and at first couldn't place correctly -- for some reason, my mind went to Groklaw, but Lifehacker was the correct answer. Maybe I'm idolizing my own youth and its associated available free time just a tiny bit and I can't actually believe it's been 20 years, but those felt like good times, Web 2.0 with its focus on communication instead of publishing, with Sl…
There are still tons of websites (more now than ever) not owned by gigantic corporations. It's not their fault that you and the masses mostly stopped going to them in favor of facebook and twitter and instagram and, of course, apps. (You're on one right now, naturally.) I get the same feeling when people say "RSS is dead". I read dozens of websites via RSS and my RSS reader still works fine. Very few blogs I want to…
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I have almost no <20 memories and I'm barely 40.
That's weird to me. I'm in my mid thirties and I feel the bulk of my memories are in the 13-23 range and everything's been a quick blur since then. In fact when I started a dream diary for a personal experiment, I'm in highschool in most of them - literally, as the dreams take place in the building.
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Look for jobs that have a good match and allow Roth megabackdoor. Because having 70k a year in retirement funds is somewhat life changing.
70k invested per year, I think I could be done in a decade. I had a really good year where I just neglected to set my 401k up. So much money wasted on taxes. I'm not really trying to retire in the US, I don't intend on having a family. I think a million or so, might be enough. 5% yield on 700k is 35k per year which is enough to live well in much of the world.