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Ask HN: I have $27k in my bank account, but I have constant anxiety about money

Posted by triceratop on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

My money is spread out over checking/savings/high-yield accounts. I have more in an IRA, but am not counting it since it's considered off-limits.But ever since I started working for myself, I can't seem to shake the anxiety I have concerning money. It never feels like I have enough. I can never relax. Is this normal? Before quitting my job, I had about $60k, which slowly dwindled down to $2k...

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Ask HN: What Happened to Indie Hackers?

Posted by triceratop on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:51PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I was a huge fan back in its heyday but in recent years the site has become a complete disaster. Discussions are dead, nobody that actually makes money posts there, and the newsletter seems like its written by a 16 year old "maker." I could go on and on. I don't get what happened. Am I the only one who feels this way? Did csallen exit?

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Re:Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:12PM (#25764986)

I wish articles like this were around when I built my crypto trader mac app. I agree with others here that codesigning is a pain. One thing -- I don't really think adding licensing/copy protection is that hard and I personally think it is beneficial. I use a SaaS to hadnle the backend of that. It's been awhile but I remember it being pretty painless to integrate a simple licesning setup where my users activate devices up to their maximum according to their license key's tier.

Re:Spotify CEO says company will ‘further expand price increases’ on Thursday October 29, 2020 @12:33PM (#24932300)

The article says "in some markets."

I highly doubt they would do this for all users.

Ask HN: Best practices around fingerprinting a virtual machine for licensing?

Posted by triceratop on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.

What's a solid way to "fingerprint" a VM instance? I can't really find a good metric to use that can't easily be confgured...

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Re:Ask HN: What would happen if we deposited all our btc into a null a... on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:48PM (#15240708)

Hypothetical scenario: somebody finds a vulnerability in btc much like the recent one found in eth, and decides to deposit everything into a null address.

What happens?

Ask HN: What would happen if we deposited all our btc into a null address?

Posted by triceratop on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:48PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Would Bitcoin eventually cease to exist (i.e. when all btc have been deposited into a null address) or would the price per 1 btc slowly increase? Can new coins be created?

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to trade your cryptocurrencies? on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:47PM (#15133692)

I usually use SFOX (sfox.com) since they let me trade on multiple exchanges at the same time and I'm big on arbitrage (I have scripts to do it for me). Not sure why they're not more popular. Most UIs on exchanges are utter shit so at least SFOX's is decent.