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Hah, awesome. That was me explaining subprime mortgage products by reference to insurance on disease-prone cow herds, right? I run into fellow Fools fairly in
by patio11 12y ago
Hah, awesome. That was me explaining subprime mortgage products by reference to insurance on disease-prone cow herds, right?
I run into fellow Fools fairly infrequently (and don't spend much time there anymore) but always fun when two parts of my life intersect like that.
- T-hawk 12y agoYup, that's the one. "Sickly cows" was the key phrase and you're still on the first page of Google results for it. Link (wow, a 6 digit HN item number): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472985 I didn't want to give specifics for preserving your Fool anonymity if you still wanted it, but guess you have a public enough internet persona nowadays that that ship has sailed. Thanks again for helping direct me into a better level of software experience and knowledge, as inadvertent and roundabout as it was. I started stalking you on HN in hopes of more Japanese slice-of-life stories that you shared on the Fool, and wound up discovering a much greater world of software instead.
- patio11 12y agoI keep a fig leaf of pseudonymity there, but it's a ridiculously thin fig leaf for anyone who knows me from HN. A few folks have figured it out over the years, but I appreciate your discretion, as back in my nobody-knew-who-I-was days I talked about some fairly personal stuff there.