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by Mz 9y ago
I used to pay accident claims. Here are some real life medical records I had to review in my job: One child lost an eye because someone left a loaded BB gun laying around in the house and another child picked it up and shot them. The other
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by Mz 9y ago
Well, technically, he wasn't making millions. At best, that was gross, not net. The odds seem pretty stacked against me for various reasons. Though I am currently 52, so I appreciate the Ray Kroc snippet. ;-)
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by Mz 9y ago
Government intervention helped create the problem. In California, there is a protectionist tax policy that helps keep houses bought long ago affordable to stay in. If this didn't exist, a lot of old people would sell their houses becau
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by Mz 9y ago
I am really enjoying this subthread and I appreciate your contributions to it. I think it is a little of column A and a little of column B. I think a lot of people want to emphasize the luck, happenstance and inheritance angle in part to tr
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by Mz 9y ago
I seem to be the most prominent woman here. I got there in part by biting my tongue a lot in the face of a lot of less than respectful stuff driven by sexist social norms. I generally go to pains to not cuss " at " people, even th
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by Mz 9y ago
Probably better to post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/slavelabour/
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by Mz 9y ago
As a former military wife who helped build my husband's career, raised two special needs kids on a tight budget, homeschooled them when the school system failed them, etc, this comment really ticks me off. It is like saying women are o
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by Mz 9y ago
He has Patreon. Ads are not the only way to turn traffic into money.
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Writing under difficult circumstances(writepay.blogspot.com)
16 points by Mz 9y ago|4 comments
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by Mz 9y ago
I have written about them and posted stuff to HN. It usually doesn't get much attention. Nutshell version: 1. Flexible online means to earn money. 2. Genuinely affordable market based housing, such as SROs. I have several blogs where I
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by Mz 9y ago
I have Patreon and a Pay Pal tip jar. I still have ads on some sites. But I have fantasies that I will someday have enough revenue from other things to justify removing ads from most sites.
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by Mz 9y ago
Someone should faux take your comment seriously and insert a link about the origin and history of potatoes and how they come from South America and were first cultivated by South American indigenous peoples. Oh, hey, look, linky: https:&#x
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by Mz 9y ago
It didn't touch on that, but there are these gems: On raising kids: Jeff and his wife let their kids use sharp knives since they were four and soon had them wielding power tools, because if they hurt themselves, they’d learn. Jeff say
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by Mz 9y ago
I would love to remove ads from all but one of my sites. But I have not been very effective at monetizing my writing some other way. I removed them from a bunch of sites and saw a decrease in ad revenue, but did not see some noticeable diff
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by Mz 9y ago
Ah, if only we could reliably predict black swans and winning lottery tickets.
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by Mz 9y ago
I kind of think this fundamentally doesn't work. But I do wonder what can be done to leverage web based stuff to help support a healthy local economy. Help local artists, writers and what not to make money online. Maybe help give exp
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by Mz 9y ago
My body. It tells me what I need to know about air quality. (Not snark, though I imagine everyone will think it is.) What are you trying to do here? A few details would help folks give you feedback.
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by Mz 9y ago
What I am suggesting is that we could focus on redistributing work. It isn't inevitable that jobs should simply go away. But I think I am going to throw in the towel on this discussion. It seems pointless. Folks are pro UBI, and let&#x
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by Mz 9y ago
Currently, UBI does not exist. So, no, they do not "now" have some income. Additionally, I am aware they can fire people at will. But how laws and social contracts get interpreted changes when policies change. Welfare made it vast
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by Mz 9y ago
It is not just you, but my youngest is 27. I am not currently raising small kids. So I try to respect the fact that if parents are complaining, then it must be an issue for them. My bigger concern is that we are happy to let automation tak
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by Mz 9y ago
They also implicitly support their "right" to fire people at will and say "not my problem because you have your UBI" even though the proposed amounts for it are far below wages of jobs that are being eliminated. It is a
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by Mz 9y ago
So, when tech giants fire employees en masse and talk about Basic Income as the answer because they don't want to be held responsible, you get people churning out this kind of shit to make a few bucks because you can no longer get an h
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by Mz 9y ago
No. They believe they have an informed opinion, so anyone who sees it differently must have an uninformed opinion rooted in prejudice, partial information etc. This is partly a product of the culture and it is part of why I turned down my s
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by Mz 9y ago
I will state upfront that I think Zuckerberg is an asshole for doing this. But the reality is that there are a lot of problems with the way native land gets structured legally. Customary land accounts for 97% of land in Papua New Guinea. Th
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by Mz 9y ago
As a rule of thumb, consulting work needs to pay twice as much as a salaried job. Salaried jobs include benefits and you typically have an hour of unpaid work for every hour of paid work when you go it alone. So, your clients need to be pa
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by Mz 9y ago
Smart people can be impatient and can be short on virtues other people have, like persistence. They often expect things to come easily and will give up quickly if they don't. They can be prone to thinking that if someone disagrees wit
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by Mz 9y ago
I think one issue with restaurants is they aren't usually conducive to an MVP and iterate model. But that isn't always true. Velo Burrito started as delivery only two days a week,then turned into a restaurant.* I wonder if a tem
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by Mz 9y ago
Eh, in some sense, I am an entrepreneur. I am simultaneously quite poor and insanely successful. Life is complicated.
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by Mz 9y ago
My role was largely symbolic anyway, and after a few shifts stretched over a three-month period, I checked off that box. I am reminded of a college class where everyone but me was solely concerned with getting a good grade and enthusiasti
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How I try to direct attention as a woman online(michelerebooted.blogspot.com)
5 points by Mz 9y ago|0 comments

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