WhatIsThisIm12's comments

Take less adderall.

As a young, healthy male in my 20's pursuing entrepreneurship, the best health insurance for me is the ability to declare bankruptcy. I have chosen to go uninsured and pay the ACA penalty because it's so much cheaper than paying for a catastrophic health insurance plan. Why would I pay $4000 per year for a $6000 deductible? I do not see any benefit from that except in the case of catastrophe. It's just flushing money (that I don't have) down the toilet.

If I have to go to the ER and have a hospital bill so high that I literally cannot afford it, I will just declare bankruptcy. After all, it's not like I have any money to lose. And bankruptcy will disappear after 7 years.

This is selfish, but I really don't give a shit. The healthcare system is so messed up and overpriced that I feel no social obligation to it.

I like my coworking spaces like I like my haircuts; effective with nobody talking to me.

As someone who graduated from an Ivy Leage school, and boarding school before that, all on full financial aid with zero loans, I count myself incredibly lucky. I also see the student loan system as incredibly fucked up.

The worst aspect of it to me is that the most predatory loans go to the lowest qualified students, who are the ones who get the lower paying jobs. Top universities are the only ones with loan-free, need-blind financial aid programs. Yet they're the ones with students who would be most qualified to pay any loans back. Meanwhile lower tier universities charge tuitions almost as large as the top tier ones, yet send students to $40k/yr jobs.

The students who need the money most don't get it.

Happened to me. I posted about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880008

It's a relatively new personal account I created to be "clean" of google tracking. The night before I had been in a youtube chat of a donald trump rally and may or may not have been "spamming" posting memes too quickly. Could be that.

I had the account reinstated quickly after sending them an email like wtf?

As a hacker news reader, you should understand the difference between business and personal bankruptcy. One is a business tool, the other is a statement against your financial capabilities.

I assume you're referring to Stefan Molyneux. He has some very interesting ideas and presents them articulately. However he gives off quite the "cult leader" vibe and tends to deride or mock counterarguments, rather than critically engage with them.

I'm highly educated and voting for trump.

Nice example of how positive momentum of AWS leads to more defensibility (a dedicated third party site) of market position. Reinforcing positive cycle of success.

It's about selling yourself.

You are always selling something.

Recommended reading: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Sale-Learning-Masters-Business/dp...

What about dates jumping around because it's categorized by something other than date? e.g. "Entrepreneurial experience," "Full Time Jobs," "Internships"

Sidenote since this is getting so much attention: How does the website control the URL of an external tab? Is this effectively tabnabbing?

Hah nice. Probably not the kind of firm you want to be messing with, however...

Then again I'll just leave this here.

http://uniloc.com/wp-content/backup-9b7a1/uniloc_wpu_2012032...

Personally I don't even think these stories should be on HN... nothing good can come from them because all anyone can offer is pure speculation.

Now, in the interest of speculation, I have some conspiracy theories to suggest. Normally I wouldn't post conspiracy theories, but I think conspiracies have way more validity when you're talking about the security community.

So, check out these links:

- https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

- https://theintercept.com/document/2014/02/24/art-deception-t...

Then consider these conspiracy theories:

1) Jacob Appelbaum works for an intelligence service and was compromised, and this is their way of pulling him from the field

2) Jacob Appelbaum works for an intelligence service and was compromised, and this is a rival intelligence service's way of pulling him from the field

3) Jacob Appelbaum does not work for an intelligence service, but rather is the victim of a smearing campaign by an intelligence service

My personal opinion is that the guy is an asshole, his (ex-)friends are fed up with him, and they severely overstepped their bounds in attacking him. The line about "what you have to do with a sociopath" (paraphrasing) was particularly alarming for me; that was a clear signal of desire for vindication.

> What would be the best way to get some of this time spent trying to do things right compensated?

That depends how quickly you can get the money out of the bank, and get yourself out of the country!

Query your database for all active users, print list of emails. Transfer list to text editor. Paste into BCC field of email. Ask them what they want.

So he was paying ~ $10 mil for 85 employees, assuming ballpark $100k cost per employee. Automatic has been around since 2012, which means they hired an average of 2 employees per month.

Is that hiring too fast? I wonder what went wrong.

don't be a douche. this is being a douche.

Quantum computing is one of those things I know I will never learn. It makes me feel like my current skillset has an expiration date, and I only have so much time before the bar for innovation is beyond my capabilities.

I would hate to work for this lady. The fact she labels these archetypes, which are questionable in the first place, as "troublemakers" really makes it clear what she thinks. She's better than her engineers, they're lucky to work for her, and if they're not careful, she'll fire them.

That does not sound like a fun work environment. Not that I'm trying to be a troublemaker... (Please don't put me in timeout!)