Woah. When I last (tried to) start reading Ulysees, almost a year ago, I thought about this: An online "book club", allowing users to join in reading classics and participate in discussions on top of the text. That would have certainly helped me continue reading the book. Eventually I put the book back on the shelf, and wrote down the idea in my ~/ideas.md.
Your 'read' page [1] is exactly as I pictured it. Looks like an interesting, important effort. Kudos!
> The one unconventional suggestion is the idea of a correspondence between the characters of the source text and the HTML text.
Did you get a chance to check out fellow HN homepage link Paperman [1][2]? It offers exactly what you propose: Double-clicking on the results frame highlights the relevant line in the source, and vice versa. This could easily be adapted to match your suggestion.
This seems to correlate to a Hebrew expression "buying a cat in a sack", meaning taking something without confirming its quality.
Indeed, same legend is presented as the source for this expression as well.
I think liquidity is a key distinction. Many of those Twitter employees are in a lockdown(?) period post IPO where they are not allowed to sell their shares (typically 6 months). Thus they don't have the option of becoming cash millionaires right now. (Many startup founders are this way post series A)
Compare this to a case where someone owns $1MM worth of Google shares, purchased on the open market. Even though they don't have cash, it's basically as if they own cash, since you can liquidate the shares right away.
