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by dragons 14y ago
> 1. Can you tell what FounderMeals is? It looks like a set of recipes to make meals for a week, plus a grocery list of stuff to buy to make the recipes. > 2. Would you buy the product? Afraid not. I don't want to spend even more ti
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by dragons 14y ago
> I cut my working hours down to one or sometimes two days a week What do you do for your income?
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by dragons 14y ago
grecy, what sort of vehicle did you do your trip in? Did you sleep in your vehicle, a tent, or what? I'm trying to figure out how I could do something similar. I may not like it so I want to start with a short trip. I still can't figure a w
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by dragons 14y ago
gfodor, > Start a business that has the potential to generate a large amount of income quickly with low startup costs and be sold as equity for a high price after some time. Fail, and repeat for the next two years. Hopefully at some poi
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by dragons 14y ago
Any discussion on early retirement is incomplete without a mention of John Greaney's safe withdrawal rate study: http://www.retireearlyhomepage.com/safesum.html I highly recommend his site.
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by dragons 14y ago
> So, basically, if your options are either a) be sedentary or b) get adequate exercise by rock climbing, it is better for your health to choose b. humbledrone, I doubt that's the choice most climbers are making. I'm also a frequent cli
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by dragons 15y ago
What jarek said! ("And I'm sure his job duties never cause him stress and decrease his enjoyment of the skiing...") I like skiing, not teaching people how to ski. I _have_ debated trying to get an instructor job in order to get more time on
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by dragons 15y ago
jlarocco, I'm like you. I work for the money. If money were no object, I'd be spending my time skiing, rock climbing, and snorkeling in interesting spots all around the world. I do wonder if the "vast majority of people" are this way, thoug
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by dragons 15y ago
Sometimes, doing things like this can get "blown way out of proportion": http://www.wtae.com/r/23653787/detail.html (The blog writer was arrested along with 2 others for breaking into Pittsburgh Steelers' stadium in 2010.)
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by dragons 15y ago
Yes, but you can buy a lot of other really excellent experiences with millions of dollars.
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by dragons 15y ago
iamjonlee, You've got my sympathy; I can understand your anger, but it's not productive. I checked out your twitter feed, and you appear to have 3 whole posts all of which sound like marketing blah. Your HN post is much more interesting, an
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by dragons 15y ago
hippich, thank you so much for telling your story. I will give it a try!
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by dragons 15y ago
why not to become independent consultant ... once you get enough references and track of success ... What are the steps one takes to get to this stage - to become an independent consultant? From what I've heard, it doesn't sound easy. Com
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by dragons 15y ago
_I'm not sure if I'm a typical programmer: I dislike making phone calls and generally prefer to talk face-to-face with people. You get to pick up on subtle little clues_ I'm a programmer, and I agree. Phone calls are my least favorite mediu
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by dragons 15y ago
Microsoft must be ticked off that they were left out of the list.
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by dragons 15y ago
The fatalistic, egotistical and selfish attitude epitomised by women being unconcerned about losing their uterus I agree that it's fatalistic. But it's the opposite of egotistical and selfish. People with healthy egos generally care a l
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by dragons 15y ago
the article generally reeks of employees that are too lazy/complacent/comfortable to pull out the big guns and aim for what they want in a big company The article is about employees who leave companies. Such people are not lazy, complacen
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by dragons 15y ago
What you describe sounds reasonable to me. Is there coinsurance on this plan? High deductibles don't bother me. But coinsurance, where you have to pay 20% or 30% of costs, scares me. If you get seriously ill or are hit by a bus or something
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by dragons 16y ago
> but he was the boss You said he was a tech co-founder. You are another co-founder. So he's not the boss of you. You should have a frank conversation with him. It sounds to me like you let the problem drag on far too long, maybe not wa
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by dragons 16y ago
Have you explained to the guy that from your point of view he is unacceptably unresponsive? Has he actually said these tasks are "below his pay grade" (a strange idea at a startup)?
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by dragons 16y ago
> Whatever the cause, though, people from the US almost universally think of lawbreaking as a common and often harmless activity, not something limited to the mentally handicapped or partially insane - something that many people would d
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by dragons 16y ago
Do engineers need their t-shirts and jeans dry cleaned? ;)
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by dragons 16y ago
Will google do your laundry? Just curious :)
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by dragons 16y ago
Does feeding your staff actually make them work longer, or just spend more hours at the office eating? If you stay at the office longer because you're eating there, how many extra hours per day would you say you're at work because of that?
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by dragons 16y ago
Do we really need farmers if we can hunt and gather? :)
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by dragons 16y ago
It's not a matter of "touching" lives, is it? I mean, I think Amazon is great and all, and I'm really glad it's there, and kudos to the engineers who work on it. They've touch a million lives. But I think that Amazon's impact on my life is
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by dragons 16y ago
>> People have no problem that they can buy a kettle for £5 that was made in China, but take issue withe the fact that manufacturing jobs are going to... China. Well, some people have a problem with that. Some people try to buy fa
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by dragons 16y ago
I'm tired of working for others. What I'm doing is meaningless and unexciting. When I look around at other development jobs, they look like more of the same. The more interesting jobs appear to require several years of experience with skill
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by dragons 16y ago
Someone who solves problems or produces work in unconventional ways, not working via the usual channels.
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by dragons 16y ago
Snippet from the article: > "The book's thesis is essentially that real life isn't as fun or rewarding as videogames, and so life should be "fixed" to be more like the games. This would be achieved by applying gaming scenarios and game

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