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		eadmund on Dec 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get... > 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.

syeare on Dec 13, 2022 | [–]

Are you talking about Eric Raymond? The Cathedral and The Bazaar? I never knew he struck it rich

bhaak on Dec 13, 2022 | | [–]

https://lwn.net/1999/1216/a/esr-rich.html

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

DonHopkins on Dec 14, 2022 | [–]

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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