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pastor_bob··on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250M bail
The Solana Foundation
pastor_bob··on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250M bail
They're free to let him take a plea deal and go to prison
pastor_bob··on Seattle woman can’t build housing without paying city $77k. Now she’s suing
The policy seems pretty straightforward:

If you want to build a bunch of units on your property:

1. A certain percentage has to be rented at an affordable rate (for 75 years).

2. If they aren't you pay a 'fee' into an affordability fund based on how much you build.

The fact they the owner claims they want to 'rent' to their kids is a red herring IMO. She wants to build 4 market rate units on her property, and not designate any of them as affordable.

pastor_bob··on Seattle woman can’t build housing without paying city $77k. Now she’s suing
They build outward, not upward. Huge difference. (NYC is 7x as dense as Dallas)

They already need a highway expansion in Austin because of it

pastor_bob··on Apollo Layoffs
"Have no illusions. This is a business. Somebody has to take a fall, and it's you. Best of luck, and don't buy the Koolaid at your next job."
pastor_bob··on Musk’s $5.7B Mystery Gift Went to His Own Charity
>Regular mortals maximize their 401k contributions, use Backdoor Roth IRA, FSA, optimize for long-term capital gains, etc.

The only thing I would consider to be 'tax avoidance' in there is the Backdoor Roth, which is only used by a small subset of Americans because the majority don't make enough to need it. And even then the Backdoor Roth is a loophole/oversight that Congress is too cowardly to close.

The rest all serve different purposes, primarily to make necessary aspects of life (Retirement, Healthcare, etc) more affordable in our unaffordable country.

pastor_bob··on SvelteKit 1.0
I can't remember a time I've seen a posting advertising use of Svelte on a team FWIW.

The headwinds against React are strong.

pastor_bob··on SEC charges eight social media influencers in $100M stock manipulation scheme
>According to the SEC, since at least January 2020, seven of the defendants promoted themselves as successful traders and cultivated hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter and in stock trading chatrooms on Discord. These seven defendants allegedly purchased certain stocks and then encouraged their substantial social media following to buy those selected stocks by posting price targets or indicating they were buying, holding, or adding to their stock positions. However, as the complaint alleges, when share prices and/or trading volumes rose in the promoted securities, the individuals regularly sold their shares without ever having disclosed their plans to dump the securities while they were promoting them.

They were literally pump-and-dumping. This is, to the letter, illegal. Cramer is not doing that.

These 'analysts' on CNBC are supposed to follow disclosure rules.

pastor_bob··on ElonJet Is Now Suspended
Yeah, maybe Twitter instituted a new rule (not public) that you can't track Elon Musk's flight patterns.

Follow the rules, people.

pastor_bob··on The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks
Do these front windows even roll down? Might be a moot point
pastor_bob··on The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks
"What's the point of these complaints when the driver will be replaced by FSD in one year" - Elon
pastor_bob··on Jeff Bezos' 127M sailing yacht has completed construction
Literally one of the first things seized from Russian oligarchs though once they went to war with Ukraine.

They're only as safe as where they're parked.

pastor_bob··on Jeff Bezos' 127M sailing yacht has completed construction
You're not going to get much privacy on a European beach. Lounging on a yacht is how you avoid having to sunbath next to millionaires.
pastor_bob··on New York City hiring top rat killer
There's no confusion.

The only solution are distributed dumpsters/large containers, which are not popular because nobody wants a dumpster in from of their building

pastor_bob··on New York City hiring top rat killer
I once stayed at a flat in Berlin and there were rats living in the building trash container. They would literally be scurrying on the top of the pile when I opened it up to throw trash bags away. Hands down my worst experience with rats, even coming from NYC.

This was in Kreuzberg and there seemed to be a lot of rats there because of some abandoned buildings and construction + fields of dirt for them to burrow in

pastor_bob··on New York City hiring top rat killer
There are tons of rats in the subways, and until the MTA puts up a platform wall or something like that, they're not going away because they live off the food people throw on the tracks.
pastor_bob··on DoorDash to Slash 1,250 Jobs to Pare Back Rising Costs
So long as it is applied evenly to all laid off.

Personally, I find the health benefits extension to be much more meaningful

pastor_bob··on DoorDash to Slash 1,250 Jobs to Pare Back Rising Costs
I think their business model rests on:

1. Stomping out Grubhub and similar with massive spend.

Then...

2. Somehow profiting off of DashPass

pastor_bob··on DoorDash to Slash 1,250 Jobs to Pare Back Rising Costs
> Every single time I order stuff is missing, order is MUCH later than promoted, and customer service is awful.

How much of that is Doordash specific though. Sounds like restaurant issues. I could see the underestimate (I believe, at least, with some systems the wait time is manually controlled by the restaurant) as a means to get people to pick Doordash thinking it leads to a quicker meal.

pastor_bob··on Mohammed bin Salman: Saudi leader given US immunity over Khashoggi killing
Strange, we never gave such immunity to Muhammad Omar when he was running Afghanistan!
pastor_bob··on Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself
The crypto community begged the regulators to stay out of it and now they're crying about getting scammed.

I am lucky enough to live in New York, so even when tempted, I couldn't partake in this charade without trying to find a bunch of shady loopholes.

But as for the others, I guess you just can't win.

pastor_bob··on Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work
Layoffs started over the summer. Hiring freezes had been implemented.

I'm sure many twitter employees thought he would drag his feet or the deal would fall through, and they'd have at least a year+ of time before he comes in.

pastor_bob··on Oxford University Press’s new logo is unfathomably bad
It's interesting because there also are The Mets. So you have the Met and the Mets, but nobody familiar with both would ever think of the other when hearing either.
pastor_bob··on Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex
Many people cash out at stages before this and don't make it to his level. You don't hear about them because they cashed out. Above a certain number, it's really irrelevant. The drive (or greed, etc) keeps them going.

Not to mention, money makes your influence increase, and the idea you can start influencing things like politics on a national scale becomes very enticing.

pastor_bob··on Novelist as a Vocation
Unless you're planning to get an MFA, people should first try to write a novel before worrying about being a novelist.

The experience of actually writing is much different than thinking up a story in your head.

pastor_bob··on Russia to Withdraw Troops from Kherson
Well he needed the Crimean bridge, which wasn't finished until 2019. Then he needed to ensure Syria wouldn't flare up. Then he had to ensure his ownership of his goon in Belarus, Lukashenko, by backing him up in 2020. Then there was covid, etc.

Lots of strategic reasons to wait until 2022, not factoring his suspected health issues.

pastor_bob··on Ask HN: Is React impacted by Meta layoff?
Would be good to know if their 'hooks' experiment comes to some calamitous end.
pastor_bob··on Ask HN: Is React impacted by Meta layoff?
Yes, big impact. The deadline for the completion of the beta docs has been pushed back from 2032 to 2046.
pastor_bob··on NYC jail complex to be restored into citywide green energy hub
Rikers:

1. Sits on top of a former landfill

2. Is adjacent to LaGuardia Airport

Thus, there aren't many good options for redevelopment. Green energy/industry is definitely one of the best possible moves

pastor_bob··on Netflix launches an ad-supported tier
the 10% not available is due to licensing, i.e. stuff that doesn't want to be run with ads. Assuming that is the more premium content.
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