Thanks for this post. An uplifting article to start my Friday.
While I know I am romanticizing the story in my mind, the blurb sort of translates into the last line of a Haiku.
Imagine being a spy in WW2, dropped into occupied France, captured by the Gestapo, put in prison camps and repeatedly escaping and never mentioning it to anyone!
Why would it be killed? At first glance this looks like someone who hacked the system to have no permanent address, yet was able to execute financial trades.
I was unaware that being homeless was now considered "hacking the system to have no permanent address." I agree, however, that he demonstrated considerable mastery of the telephone at the senior center.
I guess you're trying to make a funny. Have an upmod for effort.
What you may not be aware of is how difficult it is to perform certain types of financial transactions without a permanent address. Trading in stocks, for example. Quite often you need to do certain things in person and need to provide identification, which in turn may require a fixed address.
He may have been using the seniors centre as his address, he may have been doing something else.
The key here isn't that he was homeless and used the telephone in the senior's centre, the key is that he was homeless and used the telephone in the senior's centre AND managed an investment portfolio.
> "He was an atheist and I'm a very profound practicing Catholic, and I'd never met an atheist," Belle says. "And that just blew my mind that somebody could not believe in the Lord."
I guess she doesn't believe in the existence of, say, India or China or Japan either?
I would find it very enlightening to find out what kind of organisation system he used for his trades/paperwork. Did he have a stash somewhere where he could store documents? Did he have a PO Box?
How would people on HN organise themselves without any permanent address...or by the looks of it, laptop/smart phone/access to computer, whilst tending to a portfolio that would end up being in excess of $4 million?
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 29.0 ms ] threadReminds me of this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314070/Eileen-Nearn...
Imagine being a spy in WW2, dropped into occupied France, captured by the Gestapo, put in prison camps and repeatedly escaping and never mentioning it to anyone!
That seems masterful to me.
What you may not be aware of is how difficult it is to perform certain types of financial transactions without a permanent address. Trading in stocks, for example. Quite often you need to do certain things in person and need to provide identification, which in turn may require a fixed address.
He may have been using the seniors centre as his address, he may have been doing something else.
The key here isn't that he was homeless and used the telephone in the senior's centre, the key is that he was homeless and used the telephone in the senior's centre AND managed an investment portfolio.
I guess she doesn't believe in the existence of, say, India or China or Japan either?
How would people on HN organise themselves without any permanent address...or by the looks of it, laptop/smart phone/access to computer, whilst tending to a portfolio that would end up being in excess of $4 million?