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allow me to be the first to say that, if this is a serious post, don't do this.

• scattered 18y ago
  it is a serious post and I know the odds of a big win are practically non-existent, but then again so are the odds of the kind of payoff that many on HN have dreamt of at some stage in their life and it hasn't stopped them has it? certainly didn't stop me :) I'm going to start a teacher training course in September after which I'll hopefully start a career in teaching. Whilst I don't think I'll ever lose the entrepreneurial bug I don't think I'll ever be able to put in as much passion as energy as I have these past few years. In short, I've peaked, and this is just my idiosyncratic way of saying farewell to that part of my life.
  • noodle 18y ago
    why not, instead, use that money to make an angel investment in a small, needy startup? odds of success are probably higher and it would feed your own bug vicariously
• iamdave 18y ago
  Hey, it's a good way to test out the law of averages.
  • noodle 18y ago
    i'm not saying it doesn't accomplish anything, i just want to point out that he could do better things with the money.