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Hayk Baroyan
mini · SEP 02 · 1 min
A Tiny Team Wants to Send a Spacecraft to Alpha Centauri It Will Arrive in 80,000 Years
A small nonprofit wants to launch a probe toward Alpha Centauri within three years, funded almost entirely by public donations. It will arrive in about 80,000 years, and the team behind it already expects a faster, later spacecraft to beat it there. They're going anyway.
Spacealpha centauriexplorationTech Culture
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1 minHayk Baroyan
shelf · SEP 02 · 18 min
Early Retirement, Explained by Three Different Rulebooks
"Early retirement" usually means two unrelated things: a government-set pension age, and a personal savings target under the FIRE movement. This piece separates them, walks through the actual math (with real numbers for the US, France, and Armenia), and looks at what the research says leaving work early really does to your health and identity.
Early RetirementRetirement PsychologyFinancial IndependenceFIRE Movement
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18 minHayk Baroyan