bluewolf

Get to know yourself. Stop asking strangers on Hacker News.

How? By being of service to others. People who need help are everywhere.

Create artificial limitations.

No, many people definitely hate U2 and would never want it on their device. I am one of them.

This looks like a new kind of research tool, which is great. I love this kind of stuff. Just show step-by-step how to use it and provide several examples.

I've been contracting for about 8 years now. Your client is trying to stiff you. It will only get worse from here.

Get out while you can, but still try and collect on money owing - even if it takes you a year or more.

I would enthusiastically sign up for this, except I don't have an iPhone.

The game Rejection Therapy[1] has lots of challenges for interacting with strangers, like ask a stranger to have your photo taken with them and sit beside a stranger, strike up a conversation and so on.

They sound easy to do, but I found out they are anything but.

[1] http://rejectiontherapy.com

The dog walking job, at $96,000, is a flat-out lie. I owned a dog walking company for several years. There is lots of competition and no barrier to entry.

If it happened to your pet, it would be a legitimate concern.

If you have a cats that roams outside, beware of bunchers. Bunchers are thieves that trap and steal domesticated pets and sell them to laboratories to be experimented on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncher

An RFID microchip combined with a GPS collar (Pawtrack.com has a good one) may help prevent such a terrible outcome, but there are no guarantees.

Don't apologise. Your view is held by a growing number of people who don't want their lives saved by medical heroics - only to live a reduced quality of life.