skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has all the trappings to be miserably boring. The story is long. In the middle of nowhere. Filled with weirdo boys cosplaying as yeoman intellectuals.

I figured the story would take a dark turn, like a horror flick.

Au contraire! This is a story about a bunch of self righteous pricks whose peckers get antibiotic resistant STDs.

This was great, thank you. (The moral lesson is interesting too but I don't want to spoil it)
Good example.

Yes of course, not everything is about money. There's also 1) prestige and 2) the promise of future money. The Norwegian Pension Fund specifically is very prestigious, and it promises that anyone who can do a good job with $1.5tr probably can also do a good job at one of those 100bn fund that do pay 10m/yr.
Does Tesla pay any state or federal taxes? From my understanding, their federal tax bill at least was $0 in 2022. If the company was operating in CA and paying little or no taxes, it may have been a net drain on the state.
Berkeley compute facilities used $rsh and $rlogin .. not clear on the file transfer from the outside. Dial-up modem from a residential phone line in those days, this was before 9600 baud became common for individuals.

ftp on the other hand was more like finger or similar.. going to some external site that was public, or had a login to distribute files.
I googled basswood, and found this article about it, and its parent site, the Wood Database, both of which are interesting:

https://www.wood-database.com/basswood/
I think this over-estimates the amount required to live a luxurious life in perpetuity.

Consider the case of someone wishing to live a luxury lifestyle in the trendy lower east side neighborhood of manhattan. We'll use a 1300 sqft 3 bedroom condo as a baseline.

https://www.redfin.com/NY/New-York/455-FDR-Dr-10002/unit-B30...

This condo will cost 8k/month with a 20% downpayment at todays interest rates, leaving our hypothetical million dollar a year salary person with 52k/month post-tax. Assuming they live a rather luxurious lifestyle of ~16k per month, they will still have a savings rate of 60%. Leading to a retirement in 12 years with a portfolio of 7.8 MM.

If the person makes 10x this value or 10MM per year... Then they can retire in 1 year. At 100 MM, they can retire in ~2 months.

You can play with the numbers a bit, our hypothetical 1MM/year individual would be living in the "average" 3-bedroom apartment for the Lower East Side. Perhaps the 10MM/year individual would choose the most expensive unit which is only ~4x more expensive, and increase their spending to 90000 per month - equivalent to a new model X per month.

They still retire in 3.8 years.

https://www.redfin.com/NY/New-York/105-Norfolk-St-10002/unit...
I post videos of any porch pirate, door checkers to NextDoor. It really is necessary to be aware of what is happening in your neighborhood unfortunately, if you want to keep your stuff. We live in a dense enough neighborhood (Ballard - Seattle) that you can walk or drive around the neighborhoods no problem, but if you enter the driveway and start checking peoples' car doors, you are going to be noticed, and the police won't come (SPD has no time for that), but it will get around that someone is checking car doors on some block. Or stealing packages, or some van is going around with a ladder checking 2nd floor windows to see if they are unlocked (cops still aren't coming, but at least we can watch out for it).

As long as your dad doesn't have a thing for checking car door handles, I don't think he would be noticed here.
Doesn’t work.

Lots of people don’t know what their IP is worth, and it can change with market and tech trends.

And the damages aren’t based on the harm to the IP owner, but on the benefit to the infringer.

I could have a patent that I think is worthless, but in 10 years I discover that a multinational flat out stole the IP after an NDA meeting. What is the value that I should have declared?
How can it be, that the US legal system derailed so much that such trolls can exist? A regular person or small business >>can't afford<< to go to trail and is therefore willing to settle... and patent trolls are living on this situation like parasites...
Duluth has a (much smaller-scale) system
> After a million dollars or so in salary, the absolute amount that a person is paid has no real impact on their life. They can't eat more meals in a day or wear more shoes. What matters to the manager is the relative amount.

Take the now-defunct "American dream" of a single-income family with 3 kids living in a house with a backyard, say, in Silicon Valley and other places that have mobs paying more than $1 million to people, and that goes away pretty quickly.

After tax, with standard deduction, and 5 allowances, that $1 million turns into $529k net. With a $7k rent plus $5k in personal expenses per person (pre-school tuition alone is about $3k, so $5k in personal expenses is not outrageous), that leaves at most $145k in savings.

With a $12k mortgage (the median price in Santa Clara county for all residential is $1.4 million, I'm using $1.8 for a house), that's down to $85k in savings if you live frugally.

But, as other people say, there's more to life than food and shoes.
Republican "governance" in a 3 act play:

> Two of the biggest beneficiaries in the 2024 contests have been Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.), the leader of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Rep. Troy E. Nehls (R-Tex.), who oversees its rail-focused subcommittee. In this cycle, Graves has received $26,000 from BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific and their top trade association, while Nehls has received about $19,000. The companies donated through their political action committees to the two lawmakers as well as their leadership PACs, which enable members of Congress to write checks to their peers.

Act 1

>In the weeks after the East Palestine derailment, Graves, Nehls and other Republicans hammered the Biden administration. That March, they wrote federal regulators to raise “significant concerns” and to question “whether appropriate actions have been taken by the federal agencies to protect the community and the environment.”

Act 2

> Since then, though, the two lawmakers have refused to hold legislative hearings on the bipartisan rail safety bill, preventing it from coming to the House floor for a vote. Nehls at one point even told Politico that Congress should not impose “more burdensome regulations and all this other stuff.”

Act 3
A huge portion of men would fine with this and wouldn't regret it either, but it doesn't happen that often for obvious reasons and likely never will.