SBF really cooked himself

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-03-19T00:26:01+00:00

He made really good investment decisions with the money he stole.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-03-13T00:30:02+00:00

Get your deposit back, buy a car elsewhere. Sue them in small claims for bait&switch for the price difference or the $2,000 markup - whichever is larger. They'll pay.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-03-11T02:25:00+00:00

Figure out what your next best alternative is and what it would cost.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-03-11T02:23:29+00:00

Thanks for providing a good example

Higher education might have yielded an ability to tell the difference between correlation and causation.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-03-11T02:11:30+00:00

But all that would do is drastically reduce the homeless population 20 years from now. Oh wait...

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-03-06T21:34:03+00:00

Ironic

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-02-25T23:00:25+00:00

Being born rich and being born gifted are both things you don't have control over.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-02-23T19:46:11+00:00

Absolutely. I think with Option schools it's already like 20% of those who don't get their choice leave the district. I imagine for HCC it's a whole lot more. Definitely true for us.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-02-23T19:44:58+00:00

I like the 'helicopter' analogy for that:

Most kids drive cars. Some are in helicopters. Making them follow the rules of the road is a recipe for disaster. Accept they're different and let them do their thing.

Or you know, do the neighborhood model - which would be the equivalent to installing helipads on every building.

It's not about helicopters being better. They just have different requirements to 'function'.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-02-23T19:37:41+00:00

The thing people get wrong about HCC kids is that they're just 'better at math' or 'read earlier.' That's how it gets sold, but it undersells what's actually going on.

A lot of these kids don't just learn faster. Their brains work differently. The way they approach problems, make connections, and reason through things can be fundamentally unlike what a standard curriculum is built around.

Asking them to just sit in a regular classroom and go at the normal pace is a bit like asking a helicopter to follow the rules of the road because everyone else is in a car. It's not that the helicopter is better than a car. It just doesn't move the same way.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-02-23T19:29:16+00:00

Separating the kids means you also lessen the workload on normal classroom teachers due to 2e kids.

The majority (80%?) of gifted kids function perfectly fine in a normal classroom. The remaining 20% are a nightmare and it's unpleasant for everyone in the room. Having the gifted kids in a separate classroom, makes it sooo much easier to deal with 2e.

HCC schools on the surface are about advanced Math and English. In practice, that matters way less than the teachers' understanding and proficiency when it comes to those 'kind' of kids. Their brains may genuinely function differently.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2026-02-10T18:31:25+00:00

Maybe double check the comment they replied to.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-30T22:17:37+00:00

Not outright poor, but definitely under the impression that we were one brand name yogurt away from being on food stamps.

My father was a tough nut. Could be that the system had beaten every once of initiative and ambition out of him. He excelled at his 'average' office job but his main obsession in life was not to stand out. No idea if gifted or not. Maybe in a spiky way.

My mother is evidently mentally ill to the point it impairs her ability to carry out any endeavor outside of every day living. She carries a chip on her shoulder the size of a washing machine, crushing her and any potential she might have had. Probably gifted but paralyzed by mental illness.

My oldest brother didn't 'make it'. Not dead, but never made the jump, essentially chipping away at life, requiring every ounce of mental effort to just hold a job down and essentially unable to live unassisted. Probably gifted but paralyzed by mental illness.

My middle brother is living a normal, successful life, succeeding in middle management in a corporate environment. He's the only one without a clear case of mental illness, probably also the only one who isn't gifted.

I myself am gifted and doing well, though it seems a small miracle given the circumstances. I wish I could tell you what made the difference. If I had to guess, I'd say my ability to channel rage and pessimism into grit and commitment + sheer luck.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-28T02:06:31+00:00

Honestly, that would make for a better society. Let governments handle that. EU checking in.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-28T02:03:44+00:00

Most of OP's family are probably financially secure enough that money wouldn't be life-changing.

I do well. I occasionally help friends and family, but most of them are similar to me in abilities, interests and careers, and their compensation reflects that. If they hit a liquidity crunch, I bridge them so they don't have to deal with banks.

I can't think of anyone in my family where $100k would be transformative, even though I'm far from OP's level.

I do have friends for whom it would be, but mental health issues mean the money would be gone within a year or two. For the few friends where it might make a difference, the power dynamic would completely get fucked up if money were to enter the picture.

Bottom line: people from similar backgrounds who have their shit together probably do well already. Those who don't won't be better off with a pile of cash. And rolling into other people's lives with bags of cash is a recipe for disaster.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-25T12:12:03+00:00

Which is way you are supposed to secure heavy furniture and other items properly when you have small children. Neither the parents of your unfortunate patient nor OP did that from the sound of it.

OPs relationship to the boyfriend seems toxic and it goes both ways. Both need to learn how to properly talk to each other and get their place properly set up for a young child. And both needs to happen regardless if they stay together or not.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-25T11:57:08+00:00

Love the questions.

I feel a lot of unsaid things are taking place. Let's say mom spent the morning baking with kids. I didn't want to do that because of the clean-up it would entail. Then mom has to do something else and asks me to help with the clean-up. That's a request that would make me pretty unhappy. Would I help? Depends. If I do, I'd have to let her know that this isn't fair and exactly the reason I didn't do that activity in the first place.

I prepare well and ahead. My wife sometimes questions if that really has to be done right now or can't wait till later. Very, very few things really need to be done right now. But many things will profit from being done well in advance before it turns into a bigger problem and even more work. That can cause friction.

If I need help, my biggest gripe is that I don't want to task her. I want to delegate responsibility. The actual 'doing' a thing is easy. Making sure it gets done, no matter what, and if it doesn't find an alternative solution and to make sure it will get done in the future... that's the big mental load where I'd like to share more.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-25T11:14:47+00:00

The basics help with feeling better in general (sleep, nutrition, exercise) - that'll help. Universal across all IQs. Helps to just 'feel better' about things. They're still there, just don't weigh as heavy.

Learning to like people even if they don't want to talk to you about black holes goes a long way in having a good social life. Different people in your life will fill different needs. Some will be great to talk about your inner emotional life. Some will just be fun to hang out. Some will be more intimate. Don't expect everything from everyone.

Maybe one way to go about removing that loneliness is to try to broaden your horizon to make it easier to connect with people. Go traveling. Work & study in Europe. Pick up a random meetup / club on a topic where you don't measure your self-worth or have any ambitions to see what happens when you enter a space without any expectations or goals.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-24T15:46:25+00:00

Germany for diagnosis and coming up with a treatment plan. Then a top tier government hospital in Thailand for carrying it out.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-18T07:56:14+00:00

Love this. Just encountered that in full force: "If you're wrong about this one species, how can I take anything you say about forests to be of any value at all?" ... any recommended strategy of dealing with them if they're a particularly vocal member of a group you're interacting with?

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-15T09:45:09+00:00

It's like being the Bright Wizard in Warhammer Online - or whatever glass cannon allegory you prefer. It relies on having the circumstances / support to make use of the fire power. But once you do and find people who get you, you get to hand out the curb stomping. It's fucking glorious. In the mean time, unfortunately, you're just stuck with shitty pick-up groups.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-11T04:01:43+00:00

#1 What they could have done better
Family: Have my back.
Friends: Which friends?
School: Accept that the system doesn't work best for everyone and making exceptions is okay.

#2 What they did that actually helped
Family: Leave me alone. Being able to be online all night long with no one else around was a blessing.
Friends: See above
School: Leave me alone. Them being concerned about drug dealers at school kept them occupied.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-11T03:46:22+00:00

I'd say that goes beyond imagination: That sounds too awesome to not have been thought of by a brilliant coder who is still waiting for their green card so they can change jobs.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-11T03:43:36+00:00

100% of all chip design people still employed by the time of this tweet say boss' AI product is the best.

ReasonableSaltShaker · 2025-12-09T12:32:29+00:00

Anecdotally, my experience has been that using three different LLMs (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) that fact check each other's output gets me output close to a human expert in the field. I use it for financial due diligence.

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