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Ovo se skinuti sa njuza na kojima se raspravlja o umjetnoj inteligenciji. Čovjek bi pomislio da su tamo neki fini i akademski obrazovani ljudi koji uživaju u blagodatima imperijalističke Amerike, ali....

Well, I was only "on the street", as in sleeping in my car, for about 5 or 6 months. But I was in dirt cheap seedy hotels in the poorest part of town from november 1998 till about march 2001, when it went from that to sleeping in the car. When I had to move out of the house I was renting in 1998 it was rough, but not horrible because I knew I would be financially ok again in about a year. And by september of 1999 I was back in good shape, but I could no longer find a place to rent. So I had money but was in the same hood, which was ok, but still in hotels, which was not good. A few things happened, the big thing being the crash of the market in June of 2000, which sucked all the venture capital out of the software industry for a while. I wasn't relying on venture capital, but my clients, and my clients' clients were. It was bad timing for me, and in combo with other things put me out of the seedy hotels and into sleeping in my car.

Pa, bio sam samo na ulici u smislu da sam spavao u svome autu nekih 5 ili 6 mjesec. Bio sam u jeftinim hotelima u siromašnom djelu grada od Novembra '98. do Maja 2001. nakon čega sam se vratio spavanju u autu. Kada sam se morao iseliti iz unajmljene kuće '98. godine bilo je jebeno, ali nije bilo baš tako strašno jer sam znao da ću se financijki oporaviti za godinu dana. Oporavio sam se do Septembra '99. ali više nisam mogao nać stan za unajmiti. Dakle, imao sam pare ali sam i dalje bio u istom kvartu što je bilo ok, ali sam bio po hotelima, što nije bilo OK. Par stvari se desilo: najveće sranje je bio pad dionica na burzi 2000. godine što je bila pušiona jer je sav investicijski kapital pobjegao iz softwareske industrije na neko vrijeme. Ja se nisam oslanjao na kapital investitora, ali moji klijenti i klijenti mojih klijenata jesu. To je bilo teško vrijeme za mene i u kombinaciji sa drugim stvarima je rezultiralo time da sam zavšio spavajući u autu.


As for the safety net - part of it was ignorance on my part. There were resources available I did not know about. Eventually I did rely on relatives.

U biti mi je moglo biti bolje, ali za neke stvari koje su mi mogle pomoć nisam znao. Na kraju mi je pomogla rodbina.

In 1997 there was a guy at the bart station playing guitar and asking for spare change. On a whim I took him to lunch at Le Bateau Ivre - a fancy restaurant in Berkeley.

bla, bla, bla... '97. sam pomogao nekom prosjaku koji je svirao gitaru i žicao sitniš

In 2001 I had gone two days without eating (did not know there were places you could go get something to eat). "Soldier", a 55 year old diabetic crack head, gave me half his jumbo jack. Cynthia, who let me stay at her house a few times, died of a heart attack from a massive cocaine overdose a year after I left Berkeley.

2001. godina sam proveo dva dana bez hrane (nisam znao da postoje mjesta na kojima se djele obroci za ljude poput mene). "Vojnik", 55 godina stari napušeni ovisnik o kraku, mi je dao pola sendve. Cynthia, koja mi je par puta dala da prespavam kod nje, je umrla godin dana nakon što sam napustio Berkeley od srčanog udara uzrokovanog predoziranjem kokainom

Seljačino purgerska, prevedi to ako znat! Tj. od riječi do riječi :-DDDD

ok, idem sada to prevest... a ti čekaj malo

Ne moraš, razumijela sam. No, idu mi na kurac ti koji se "toliko" prave pametni... :-D

Bof, :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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samo me zajebavate, ali uskoro će moja pizza biti pečena pa ću vas odjebat :)))

A buš došao k meni s pizzom? ;-))))). Znaš da te ja jako volim :-D

ja sam ti u markovcu, gore kod ppk