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

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Post by harmmonica »

SubuSS wrote: post #277
harmmonica wrote: post #225

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If your interest in moving to your parent's home country is not brand new and therefore it's more than something you're just beginning to consider, jump on a plane "tomorrow" and start reading Russian lit and spending hours on Reddit there. This assumes you haven't spent a ton of time there in the past because if you haven't then you will find immediate meaning living there. And if you decide to do one of those other…

I don’t know op’s situation - but visa/green card is a big monkey wrench in those plans. Also consider the wealth expatriation tax of your host country-they can really sting.

Good points. I was mostly thinking that instead of sitting wherever they are surfing Reddit and reading Russian lit they could be doing that in the one item on their list of potential next life steps where there's almost zero risk of getting into a situation that is difficult to get out of (they said they have a long list, but of the ones mentioned that one is "easy" to start doing today and ending tomorrow without complications).

Re taxes in particular I would guess there's no risk of hopping on a plane today and figuring that out later. As much as everyone likes to think governments are sitting there waiting to shout "got ya" it seems unlikely that any single government starts putting you on a tax watch list as soon as your passport is scanned at the airport.

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

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Post by gffrd »

adv0r wrote: post #701
sigg3 wrote: post #548

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This is quite normal. Many who win big in the literal lotteries are worse off. I know reddit is all antiwork these days, but that's really mostly about rights and not not working. Being a productive member of society is meaningful. I'm from Scandinavia and a lot of our identity is tied up with our careers. Being without a job or any structural social purpose is asking for depression. GWF Hegel wrote about suffering f…

> society does not recognize in terms of existing The hell with this. Society nows recognizes Early Retirment as a status to aspire to. People look up to joung retirees, and this provides a pretty big identity. The FI movement now put a name and label on it, so the belonging part of meaning is covered.

Doesn’t society also recognize celebrity as a status to aspire to?

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

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Post by tbdenney »

raffraffraff wrote: post #456
hyperpallium2 wrote: post #439

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I was in that middle ground and didn't like it. The worst thing is it was tremendous fun to get there... but not enough motivation to do it again without that incentive. People who find meaning in being rich, enjoy being rich. I kind of think riches are an illusion - you should just go directly to whatever you find meaningful in the first place. Which might include a lot of experiences to find out what that is. Essen…

There's an additional problem though. What if you've found a type of work that you do find meaningful and interesting, but you just don't want to spend 40 hours of your week doing it, now that you "don't have to". It's hard to fit back into working life if you only want to do it, say, 20 hours a week. Some part time jobs exist, but they're the exception.

That's where I am currently. I don't mind working and enjoy it often times, but I don't have need to work for financial reasons. Finding ways to serve as an advisor/consultant doing meaningful work less than full time is REALLY difficult in my experience.

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Post by rjmunro »

xhrpost wrote: post #240

Haven't won the IPO lotto like some here but I'm comfortable financially and don't have a family. Thus my pay check mostly just ensures a nicer lifestyle, which doesn't seem to be enough to keep me motivated in the tech world. Hoping to try to do some side projects in order to give more external value to my day job: 1.) Imgur is just full of ads and annoying to use these days. Wondering if a high scale image sharing…

If you are serious about starting a hedge fund, I've always wanted a fund that I can invest in that works like a passive tracking fund, with minimal costs, except that I should be able to tell it to skip certain shares. E.g. if I want to not include Oil companies or companies that make animal products, or companies that overpay their CEOs.

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Post by tata71 »

prox wrote: post #562
laurent92 wrote: post #501

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I guess I did the right thing: Atlassian IPOed in 2015 at $21, despite everyone suggesting to cash out, I wasn’t interested, and I sold only since 1 year between $180 and $320, and kept 1/3rd. BUT it keeps climbing, $480, so you aways feel like you’re missing something, whether you sell or not. There is no right way of doing it, you’ll never sell at the top. At least the right moment is when you can use the money for…

My econ teacher always said to keep the money invested you want to lose. Couldn’t you take out a sum, but keep investing a sum you dare to lose?

Michael Saylor says only invest the money you can't afford to lose.

This is likely closer to reality, if one is cryptocurrency savvy.

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Post by prox »

tata71 wrote: post #745
prox wrote: post #562

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My econ teacher always said to keep the money invested you want to lose. Couldn’t you take out a sum, but keep investing a sum you dare to lose?

Michael Saylor says only invest the money you can't afford to lose. This is likely closer to reality, if one is cryptocurrency savvy.

I don’t really get this point… how does that work?

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Post by jasondigitized »

wiresurfer wrote: post #587

I've been burnt out with the current state of work. I work for a japanese cloud robotics company and have been witness to a great long term idea being plagued by bad management and strategy. To manage my headspace, have been doing the following 1. Writing. Realising the value of communication for teams, have been writing up a lot of my learning into a series of documents which talk strategy and decision frameworks fo…

Any guidance on getting started in gardening and hydroponics?

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Post by machiaweliczny »

tralarpa wrote: post #597

I reverse engineer/decompile games (and sometimes applications) from the 80s/early 90s for fun. The more complex the program, the more fun it is. As an extra challenge, I try to avoid runtime monitoring (i.e. in an emulator) and try to rely as much as possible solely on what I see in the binary file. Other people do sudokus, I stare for hours at disassembled code to figure out what complex data structure the game is…

Probably not legal and questionable but with good reverse engineering bots for games are profitable and accessible. Case study: Bot of Legends (League of Legends bot framework)

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Post by [deleted] »

endymi0n wrote: post #417
specproc wrote: post #369

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I went back to university at 36 after achieving a very, very modest degree of stability in my life. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Gave me a completely different perspective on who I am, what I'm interested in. It gave me the skills to start working in a sector I actually enjoy. My friend, if I had never work again money, I'd just pile up Masters and PhDs.

I‘m wondering what‘s your motivation behind that… Do you just like the sensation of studying so much? I‘d probably feel empty myself just accumulating knowledge all my life and not applying it to any high impact problem worth solving.

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Post by zafka »

biztos wrote: post #710
daswolle wrote: post #627

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This sounds awesome. I've had half baked ideas along these lines for different intersections of disciples. Great you're pursuing it and making it a reality! Are you comfortable sharing any more specifics? Do you have a landing page or is it all offline at the moment?

Offline until the paperwork all goes through. But sure some details. It’s in the Canary Islands so pretty far from “Europe” but not exactly hard to get to. In a village about 20 minutes drive from the city. Under a volcano but not that volcano. By the time it’s all fixed it will have cost me about a year’s gross income from my fancy tech job (which paid less than in California but quite well for the EU). It’s a house…

Very cool. I have been planning to do something similar on 5 acres in FL. Your location sounds much more exotic! My main issue is I am still accumulating funds so most likely I will need to set up a 501C and have future artists continue my vision.
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