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Re:After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used t... by eadmund on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:16PM (#33976820)
> In another month I'm betting they will be in 'set for life even if we make foolish choices' territory.

I hope so, but it is amazing how quickly one can burn through money by making foolish choices. Or just being unlucky. I can’t be the only one who remembers esr being worth tens of millions on paper, then losing basically all of it.

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Re:After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used t... by syeare on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:03PM (#33977507)
Are you talking about Eric Raymond? The Cathedral and The Bazaar? I never knew he struck it rich
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Re:After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used t... by bhaak on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:08PM (#33977582)
https://lwn.net/1999/1216/a/esr-rich.html

IIRC the stock price fell quite a bit before he could sell.

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Re:After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used t... by DonHopkins on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:27PM (#33978832)
It wasn't bad luck, it was bad karma. ESR earned so much bad karma by being such a terrible racist jackass that he deserved to lose it all.
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