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New comment by kingstoned in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

kingstoned — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:51:10 +0000

and you answer is...? There is an interesting article about inequality and intentions behind it: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/inequality-is-about-grabbin... ... what do you think about it?

How to earn a billion dollars

kingstoned — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:50:48 +0000

Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/earn.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526360

Points: 733

# Comments: 1926

New comment by kingstoned in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

kingstoned — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:10:34 +0000

How do they not have email when it's required to sign up for various sites, plus having android phones requires gmail, plus official documents, bank accounts, job applications etc. tend to ask for email; email is used for work as well...?

New comment by kingstoned in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

kingstoned — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:52:35 +0000

If you want to understand why someone would even propose taking from the rich and complain about inequality, this post titled "Inequality Talk Is About Grabbing " is illuminating: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/inequality-is-about-grabbin...

New comment by kingstoned in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

kingstoned — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:48:34 +0000

They have had good public education for the past decade or two and rank high in international student rankings. So, I would bet that high 'human capital' would be the cause here.

New comment by kingstoned in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

kingstoned — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:04:54 +0000

If someone is from one of 75 countries with ban on immigration but also has dual citizenship from a country that is not banned, do they need to go to that second country's US embassy when applying for an immigration visa?

New comment by kingstoned in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

kingstoned — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:54:48 +0000

USD is actually stronger these days... I know since I receive USD as payment and convert them to EUR

New comment by kingstoned in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

kingstoned — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:32:35 +0000

Could you please give some sources - books or articles or videos on that topic? It's really fascinating

New comment by kingstoned in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

kingstoned — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:39:40 +0000

Can you have just one US client like a marketplace or network that gives you monthly payouts totalling $150k a year? The client is a famous US based company.

New comment by kingstoned in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

kingstoned — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:35:31 +0000

How easily can one get E1 treaty trader visa and what volume and quantity of trade are recommended? If I have a company registered in my home country (eligible country) and have payouts from a US provider like an advertising network, affiliate provider or some marketplace etc. and my clients are all US companies, can I apply for that visa? Would a low six figure yearly revenue with monthly payout be sufficient for that?

New comment by kingstoned in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

kingstoned — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:24:43 +0000

Why would public ownership deliver those benefits? Walmart is delivering cheap, quality and reliable service in retail. Soviet stores we not better than American ones.

New comment by kingstoned in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

kingstoned — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:20:38 +0000

If you want to get a visitor visa to attend an incubator like YC, is it better to:

1) wait to be admitted into YC and get B1 visa for 3 months. Do you get some kind of invitation letter from YC that increases your chances of approval?

2) get a normal tourist visa now and specify you will go to the US for a week or two like a normal tourist and later use that to go to incubator training.

New comment by kingstoned in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

kingstoned — Sat, 24 May 2025 08:58:38 +0000

  "Today, though, a young man working at a Walmart or a gas station will struggle to attract a stable partner or the respect of the world around him."

True if they are not good looking. If a guy is really handsome, he could attract a partner easily and people will like him due to halo effect.

New comment by kingstoned in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

kingstoned — Sat, 17 May 2025 13:41:35 +0000

I have a company in my home country with revenues of $200k/year with 12 transactions per year from US clients. Can I apply for an E1 treaty trader visa and what are my chances of success?

New comment by kingstoned in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

kingstoned — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:21:34 +0000

Meanwhile scam cookie stuffing extensions like Honey are 'featured'

New comment by kingstoned in "Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees"

kingstoned — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:20:31 +0000

It's generally a myth that government employees are somehow receiving low total compensation and they could do better in the real economy.

Here's one government employees providing stats and experiences about what it is like to work for the government: https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-joy-of-government-employment

New comment by kingstoned in "Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023)"

kingstoned — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:17:26 +0000

The result of that is suggesting to put delicious glue on a pizza. Yummy https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176490/mm-delicious-glu...

New comment by kingstoned in "David Lynch has died"

kingstoned — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:10:11 +0000

    When people say "surreal" they mean "real", it's just most of your life is not very real, just repetition and routine. - Norm Macdonald

New comment by kingstoned in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

kingstoned — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:52:45 +0000

Netflix is not easier, but marketed heavily and competition is censored in search results. Some random pirating streaming site is unknown and probably not even easily discoverable on google (you have to use yandex for that).

I stick to pirating with adblockers because it is more convenient, there is a much bigger library of content and I don't have to share any personal info or pay for anything.

New comment by kingstoned in "Kagi Teams"

kingstoned — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:14:59 +0000

Subscriber count is not a measure of quality or importance of the service category. Hacker news is less popular than TMZ or the DailyMail, but it is not a lower quality news website.