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Re:Colonizing on Mars and beyond?? on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @12:48PM (#14971075)
Maybe. I believe the people who want to colonize mars will appeal to the people with money. This can be done through FUD (Were gonna destroy ourselves, we need a backup, etc) and it can also be through economic incentive (if you colonize mars, you will have all the real estate, there is precious metals/resources, vast opportunity, blah blah blah). My view is that we as a species in general want to explore and expand, and as a result you see us using techniques that will allow us to appeal to the people that can make that happen.

EDIT: Spelling

Re:Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”? on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:37PM (#14951859)
I have not, but I know a friend who did this for a while directly out of high school. I've never read the book, but most of these types of books say "create passive income using ____________" he made a pdf and charged 15 bucks for it. Sold it on his own website and made ~$1500-2000 a month. the money he used to live and built some other not so successful websites. We were straight out of highschool though so this was enough money to live on and he didnt TOUCH the webpage for like 2 years steady income. Sometimes people just get lucky I guess.
Even if he did attempt to sell the data, is it illegal to sell data that is freely available on the internet (honest question, I couldnt find a solid answer via googling)? It might be against TOS.