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Janitor Ronald Read Leaves Behind $8M Secret Fortune(joshuakennon.com)
12 points by j_lev 12y ago|3 comments
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Piracetam/choline/caffeine stack for about six months. Would like to do another course at some stage. Mind was massively productive and I fleshed out several ideas over the period. Also got rid of the "mind fog" that sta
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I didn't realise the situation with throwing out medicines was so bad in the US. For comparison, pharmacies in Australia have always been a place where you would return unused medicine, where it is destroyed (some medicine just cannot
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I'd argue that the lesson here is to choose the girl who doesn't need the engagement ring.
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If the drip coffee coming out of the US these days (think: Blue Bottle) is "watery" then I'll take it with extra water, thanks. Just got a Blue Bottle down the road here in Tokyo, and if you can get over the 450 yen pricetag
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Love this guy. I spent nine months living in a van while traveling all over Japan. Flirted with excessive consumption for a few years in Tokyo but ended up coming back to frugality (although I live in an apartment now heh). The good parts o
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Also apply online for the Rakuten card, and try applying for the store card at Marui. Also if you have an account at Shinsei try to get their credit card.
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https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&&q=argentine+peso+blu... I believe you are looking at the official rate. Having said that, even if I was Argentinian I wouldn't hold any significant wealth in Bitcoin.
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You nailed it. Learning to deliver was something that took years of experience at my day job, and came to me like an "a-ha" moment. Sounds like OP is already delivering maybe just not giving him/herself enough credit.
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If it just causes banks to not extend consumer debt to poor people then at the risk of sounding like Daddy Knows Best it might not be such a bad thing. Keep in mind these are small debts. Not like a home loan (ignoring the edge case of the
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Just one data point, but I worked myself into all sorts of health issues at one point and didn't get any significant compensation nor recognition. Keep that in mind as my advice is "use them out while it suits you but keep your ey
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One of the benefits of growing up Jewish is that business talk at the dinner table each evening drowns out even the TV. Of course, you learn pretty quick that not all families are like this. I'm happy to give lessons but I'll neve
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I assume they are still profitable up to $100/barrel oil.
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Simplest way to check whether people are looking at the ads is to make them all "skip to video in x seconds" ads, and then monitor for users who machine-gun said Skip button.
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Some thoughts: 1) "Enough" by John Bogle is a decent read if you want more of the same: > Two famous authors, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller are talking at a party hosted by a billionaire hedge fund manager. Kurt says to Josep
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I wish I had read this before Christmas as I was stuck for gifts for younger people.
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http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/20/7022809/3d-printed-gun-ma... But I can't tell how sarcastic you are being from your text alone.
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I came expecting to read the story of Upworthy.
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Remind yourself of the alternative ie working in a company pumping out lines of code for the rest of your life for a salary.
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Sorry yeah I don't know why I said Eisenhower. I stand by the assertion that the US was trying to come off as a little crazy in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Ah, didn't see this comment before I commented above. Agree that the "other"-other choice should be "come to whatever conclusion but not publish findings."
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The facts presented in the FBI's statement were inconclusive enough to allow North Korea to deny the charges (which they have done). Assuming the FBI have no reason to lie, the more interesting question is "why did the FBI make a
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by j_lev 12y ago
I wasn't of investing age during the 80s or 90s but from what I can see it seems to have been a time of massive investment in single stock or what are today called "actively managed funds." Here in 2014 my feeling is that the
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Always late to the party, I had the following two thoughts on the walk to work this morning: 1) "shows to watch" - just delete these and reclaim the time. TV shows and movies are in a new golden age, and if they don't continu
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Blake that was one of the funniest articles I have read in a long time. The content wasn't particularly interesting to me but coffee blew out of my nose at "Bankery Robberson" and I had to read to the end. Your high school En
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Companies themselves buy and sell their own stock when they believe it is under/overvalued. And there will always be people out there who believe they have an edge and can pick undervalued stocks. These days I think in reality most peo
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Except it doesn't feel like sacrifice after a while. Netflix/Cable TV --> reading a book (from the library) or HN. Starbucks --> broaden your horizons and explore the world of "grind your own." Eating out more than
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It also seems at odds with what was said in this article, linked to here on HN a couple of weeks back: http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-best-inv...
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I'd add that even if you aren't able to live on 35% for 10 years straight you shouldn't fall into the mindset that it's not worth aiming for at all.
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> If you’re an employee working for salary, it’s going to be hard to reach that level of independence. ... You can try to radically lower your financial burn rate, but few Americans have taken that step. So many people are quick to dismi

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