jacalata

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2011.
by jacalata 15y ago
Except that guy nir directly above you.
2012.
by jacalata 15y ago
I know when I moved out of my last apartment, I sold my washing machine for a couple hundred dollars less than I could have made, because it needed to be gone by the end of the week. I don't have storage, I don't want to keep something that
2013.
by jacalata 15y ago
Maybe even a combination of this with the idea of pledging money if you don't achieve something? How much more motivated would you be to roll out of bed at 6am if you knew that skipping it would cost your buddy cash?
2014.
by jacalata 15y ago
rephrase it again. "Yea x is annoying, why did we introduce that step in the process?". That doesn't have the same 'we're not going to stop x!' implication, but explicitly asks for the information you'd need before you went through with sto
2015.
by jacalata 15y ago
(SPOILER) this is the twist in a novel I've read: http://tinyurl.com/6r6hkhn (edit: tinyURL'd so the link text doesn't give tell you what the book is if you don't want to know).
2016.
by jacalata 15y ago
That also doesn't give you a cash pile of $20k at the end of it, after you pay your current rent, pay taxes (higher as a contractor), buy food, etc. I'd estimate the cash pile to be maybe $10k? So his income from that one month was probably
2017.
by jacalata 15y ago
I personally am most impressed by those who see the possiblity of people arriving with guns (or whatever hyperbolic event you wish to imagine) and then work to avoid it /today/, rather than pretending that the future is out of their hands.