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Re:Finishing a side project by daenz on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:53PM (#23673007)
>Unexpected life events.

Like a world-changing pandemic and riots? I'll be honest, it is getting hard to focus on building my cute little software bullshit project when a voice in the back of my head is telling me to spend my time prepping for social collapse.

Re:Finishing a side project by aleksaxyz on Sunday June 28, 2020 @08:04PM (#23673072)
That can be your new side project.
Re:Finishing a side project by discordance on Sunday June 28, 2020 @10:45PM (#23673891)
Disaster prep is pretty big business
Re:Finishing a side project by wolco on Sunday June 28, 2020 @10:06PM (#23673716)
So much more is going on.

Sand storms so large they are blocking the sun in the US.

Radiation forest fires in Russia.

Ufo's existance were confirmed by US navy.

Stock market crash / rapid recovery

What's next...

Re:Finishing a side project by sk0g on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:33AM (#23674970)
> Ufo's existance were confirmed by US navy.

The way it's written, it sounds like the US Navy confirmed the existence of aliens, but it was just unexplained phenomena, right?

Re:Finishing a side project by marcosdumay on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:14AM (#23677785)
It's anything unexplained that isn't on the ground.

I'd bet the most common ones are classified man-made objects. But yeah, nature throws some there as well.

Re:Finishing a side project by tasuki on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:38AM (#23676227)
> Ufo's existance were confirmed by US navy.

UFO means Unidentified Flying Object. The word "unidentified" doesn't fit well with the word "confirmed".

US navy has seen flying objects which it has not identified. I would be more surprised if they could identify all the objects they have ever seen flying. I often have trouble identifying certain objects which aren't even flying!

Re:Finishing a side project by legends2k on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:43AM (#23674709)
Can you share the link on the navy bit?
Re:Finishing a side project by mkl on Monday June 29, 2020 @02:12AM (#23674858)
Discussed on HN a bunch of times: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=navy+ufo
Re:Finishing a side project by redis_mlc on Sunday June 28, 2020 @10:00PM (#23673693)
I wanted to comment on this since I've been through many disruptions.

During the dot-bomb implosion in 2000, most people threw their hands-up. Even VCs threw in the towel and moved from Calif. to southern states with no state income tax. (The metaphor was, "they're rolling up the sidewalks in Palo Alto.)

To this day, business people look at the start date of some of my projects and say things like, "Wow, you started a project in 2000?" Then they go mum since they realize what a silly thing that was to say.

Business and life are cyclical. Since it takes 7-10 years for a startup to mature, the passing of crises has very little effect in the early stages of a startup.

Now is the perfect time to do a startup or project.