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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by kick on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:12PM (#22061628)
This says you were a millionaire before you'd been working ten years, and as far as I'm aware it's fairly accurate? It's a profile of you that happened long before you were controversial. I didn't claim that you were a millionaire because you had invested in real estate, just that you also had invested in real estate (I assumed that it was obvious that the former was probably a precursor to the latter, but I guess not).

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/09/business/part-artist-part...

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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by BrendanEich on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:14PM (#22061639)
It does not say "due to real estate". How hard is this to read accurately and relate on HN faithfully? I had more upside from SGI's IPO than from valley real estate (which was good too, but I never flipped). Yeesh!
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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by kick on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:27PM (#22061686)
It does not say "due to real estate". How hard is this to read accurately and relate on HN faithfully?

Sir, the last comment was stating that I was trying to avoid implying that it was due to real estate.

> I didn't claim that you were a millionaire because you had invested in real estate

> just that you also had invested in real estate

I'm not accusing you of getting rich off of real estate.

I'm just saying that "investing in real estate" is something that requires a substantial volume of money (as you said, a nest egg): it was a way to show that you were well off, not a way to imply you were a slumlord or something.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by BrendanEich on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:18AM (#22062308)
I misread your comment, sorry. But I must say real estate was cheap in the ‘80s, especially after downturns. Remember the crash of ‘87 aka Black Monday? Yikes, I’m old.
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