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Did SBF take the wealth using better judgement or did he take it using dishonesty and fraud?

My impression is that it's the dishonesty and theft that people have a problem with, not just being clever and outwitting people in the speculative gambling game.

And when those people get the impression that the EA movement is okay with getting money dishonestly as long as it's given it to a worthy cause, they take issue with EA.

Edit: Just thought of an analogy. Some charities do raffles, right? You can put money into the pot for a chance to win a prize, knowing that a proportion of all the money people put in goes to the charity.

But what if the charity sold a bunch of raffle tickets and then announced that they would not award a prize and all the money would go to the charity? Or what if it came out that the prize was rigged to go to someone affiliated with the charity? In this case I don't think you can say, "Well, those people chose to gamble so they consented to having their wealth taken."

Not to mention all the youtube videos that are just ads. My 11yo wanted to watch some saxophone videos to help him learn to play – next thing I know, he’s watching a saxophone unboxing video with a reviewer gushing over the saxophone he bought from Amazon.

Alexa takes "the customer is always right" a little too far:

  Me: Alexa, when do babies double their birth weight?
  Alexa: According to an Amazon customer, some time within the first month. Does that answer your question?
  Me: No!

(The true answer is more like 5 months: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/infant-and-todd....)

Sounds like a fun one to try with my siblings at Thanksgiving, thank you!

But I don't think Bob is a valid name because if I use it to refer to the cardinality of the naturals, nobody would know what I'm talking about.

I don't see why I have to reject aleph null just because I reject Bob.

Link: https://youtu.be/92vV3QGagck

And an homage that I was just reading earlier today: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/35

Don't you need to add another verb for “I could have a banana” to work as past tense?

E.g. "I could have eaten" or "I could have had"

Edit: Oh wait, now I see it. Something like "I knew I could have a banana if I got hungry."

And even among households that do have so many devices, aren't the kids' devices typically "replaced" with hand-me-downs from the grownups rather than with totally brand-new devices?

> You don’t question that the gas you purchase at a gas station is in fact gas, and not water.

Ooh, I have an analogy! If I park my car at the airport while I go on vacation, I expect it to still be there when I get back. I don’t expect to return from my trip and discover that the airport let the car rental company use it while I was away and now it’s gone because someone crashed it.

On the other hand, someone in this thread pointed out the yield that was offered to customers with FTX accounts. [0] I would be more suspicious of a parking lot that said, “Hey, you can park here for free. In fact, do you have any other cars? If you park them all in our parking lot, we’ll pay you $x per day!”

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33571873

My understanding is that there were bitcoins (and other crypto tokens) stored in the accounts that are not getting returned, valuable or not.

With cash it's more convenient to tip based on the bills you have available vs with a fixed percentage. Maybe some regulars will give a large cash tip some days and a small or no tip on other days, with the idea that it'll even out in the end.

I think the point was that the chart is going to keep updating until eventually what happens today (and is discussed in the comments) will not be visible from the link.

But I don't think deleting the post is necessary. When a more permanent source becomes available, @dang can switch the link and in the meantime we can keep discussing the chart.

If that's the purpose, a better version would start out quiet and get louder over time to give people a chance to remove the earbuds.

Yes! Plus it's great to have those recordings available for sick days and other times when I want to entertain the kids without having to resort to TV or other forms of screen time that I prefer to avoid :)

Plus Musk is kind of a weird word.

The slowness and bugs might be due to the sudden influx of people from Twitter. I just joined a small server that is now having to scale up a bit to accommodate all the new traffic, and I assume the more popular servers are seeing an even bigger bump.

I was actually expecting the sign up process to be a lot more difficult than it was for me, just based on the impression I'd gotten from various HN comments over the years. I encourage anyone curious to try it out for themselves.

I guess this varies by region. I've never had to wait more than a couple minutes to make a donation at any local thrift stores.

I have been having a lot of fun lately telling bedtime stories to my kids (ages 5 and 3). It's a collaborative improv effort with my 5yo since he likes to chime in with suggestions.

The fun part for me is incorporating various mathematical and programming concepts into the storie like functions and boolean logic.

Last night's story involved a subtraction function that would spit out negative M&Ms if too few regular M&Ms were supplied as the input. The characters learned that they had to store their regular M&Ms separately from the negative ones in order to avoid a cancelling-out reaction if they came into contact with each other.

Tonight we will explore what comes out when negative M&Ms go into the subtraction function.

Another popular plot line in these stories involves a baby gate with a filter function that controls who can go through. The functions have gotten more and more complicated as my 5yo gets familiar with the concept, and now I have an idea for a baby gate code injection exploit that I'm excited to tell.

I've posted a few polished versions of these stories to my blog and hope to add more soon.

https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/tag/pickle/

Someday I hope you will write a whole book on the subject!

Mindustry works like this, in case you're not familiar with it.

https://mindustrygame.github.io/

Wow, I love those Raf Peeters games! More than one of them will end up under the Christmas tree for sure.

My kids have been enjoying this online remake of LodeRunner. [0]

It's fun because I have fond memories of playing it on the Macintosh Classic II as a kid.

They like making custom levels for each other, just like me and my siblings used to do.

I was also happy to find an ad-free Minesweeper remake on Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Page. [1] They like the maps game from that page as well.

[0] https://loderunnerwebgame.com/game/

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

I meant Medicaid but I'm pretty sure marketplace eligibility is also determined by AGI so the same principle would apply. As long as you can keep your spending under the limit, you can put the rest of your income into tax-deferred accounts and still qualify (until your income is so high that you start running up against the contribution limits).

I'm talking about Medicaid — I don't know how it works in other states but in Pennsylvania, one way to qualify for Medicaid/Medical Assistance is by having a MAGI (modified adjusted gross income) below a certain threshold based on family size.[0] (It might only work this way for people with kids under age 21; I'm not sure.)

My husband pointed out that another option available with a solo 401k that is not often available via employer-sponsored plans is the ability to set up a Roth 401k. My understanding is this would allow for much higher Roth contributions compared to a Roth IRA.

[0] https://www.dhs.pa.gov/Services/Assistance/Pages/MA-General-...

I share your skepticism about the author’s outrageous claims, but I can give details on how self employment has given my family more flexibility with taxes and benefits.

We set up a solo 401k let us max out tax-deductible contributions on the employer side as well as the employee side, which is great for our early retirement plans because we have a much higher limit than if we were contributing to a typical employer’s plan. We are also able to work part-time without forfeiting our ability to participate in the plan, unlike a lot of employers which only offer retirement accounts to full-time employees.

We also realized that at least in our state, the income threshold for qualifying for state-sponsored health care is based on adjusted gross income. Our ability to contribute so much of our income to pre-tax retirement accounts means that we can qualify for health care despite earning significantly more, as long as we’re putting all the extra into the retirement accounts. We have to keep our spending low to be able to save that much, but that’s in line with our FIRE goals anyway.

Or maybe “scarcity is a multiplier of value.”

> your own cloud drive? you just use it, its borrowed.

It could be stronger but I'd consider the above comment to qualify.

Reminds me of bowling robots, although in the case of bowling, being too consistent is a problem because it wears away the oil, impacting the path of the ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob4DPCQPBOo

I think this is something people will look back on in the future and be shocked that so many deaths by car were considered normal.

From the article, seems like only a few hundred cases:

“Bitemark analysis has been used only in a small percentage of criminal convictions...At worst, it would require the re-opening and reinvestigation of a few hundred cases.