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Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

1091 points · 458 comments · Eric_Gullichsen

neom · 1790569507 · focus · HN ↗
This guy has had some interesting side quests.
<a href="https://time.com/archive/6735546/hes-the-master-of-his-domain-name/" rel="nofollow">https://time.com/archive/6735546/hes-the-master-of-his-domai...
1. rkagerer · 1790570395 · focus · HN ↗
  Love to hear how that self-sustaining island project worked out!
  1. darkwater · 1790593118 · focus · HN ↗
    Well, <a href="https://www.tonic.to/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tonic.to/ is still online and working today. Don't know if it's still owned by OP.
2. FinnKuhn · 1790587805 · focus · HN ↗
  This German newspaper describes his life in (or on?) Tonga in even more detail: <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/portrait-einmal-tongaer-sein-a-13721.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/portrait-einmal-tongaer-...
  It is a very interesting read, and I can only recommend it. Some of it is one sentence after another that left me astonished.
3. a3w · 1790593309 · focus · HN ↗
  Just today I clicked a to shortlink for my German Univeristy and thought "curious they use a non-EU shortlinker, is that legal or secure?".
4. darkarmani · 1790625912 · focus · HN ↗
  Are the expat parts in Cryptonomicon inspired by him (small sovereign island nation in south east asia)? He was involved with cyberspace and Neil should have known about him from Snowcrash.

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