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If you are able, this is a reason why it’s a good idea to have 5+ kids: spread the load among siblings for this kind of thing.


Never seen that actually happen. More likely is a diffusion of responsibility and one sibling drawing the short stick and doing all the work.

It is not even conscious malice by the other siblings. Stuff like that happens naturally. All siblings would need to live close by, have similar family circumstances (I have a family on my own that I need to prioritize. Betty who is single can take care of dad.) and similar level of skills in caring for the parent for that to work.

Also people underestimate how horrible caring for people with dementia and other disabilities that require a high level of care is for people not trained in it. It is not socially acceptable to talk about the bad stuff.


This (along with odds of survival) was traditionally the main reason for having many children. They were help around the farm but also a form of life insurance.


Also as in the case of my mother’s family (11 kids), the onus for taking care of the younger siblings progressively falls on the siblings older than them.


Spread?!

My wife is the first of seven. Yes, she was the one financially most able to help her parents, both from being here rather than there and because she has a strong work ethic, unlike her siblings. That doesn't mean the load should have fallen virtually 100% on her when the other 6 were in the same city, not on the other side of the world.


Even in large families I know of, the burden usually rests on one or two - but the larger the family the more support of the burden-bearers there are, which can make a huge difference.


Yes please report back if it works


Biden can also pardon him on his way out.


why would Biden do that? plenty of his guys got burned by crypto, and the democratic donations are soaring due to DJT's continued proto-fascistic behavior, not via SBF or his family's efforts.

it's like saying Trump could pardon him on the way in -- and might


Google Marc Rich. Politicians take care of the people who take care of them.


Or Charles Kushner or Paul Manafort or Roger Stone or Conrad Black or Steve Bannon or Elliott Broidy..


> it's like saying Trump could pardon him on the way in

That is more likely than a Biden pardon: Trump in his first term was big on pardoning both financial criminals and people involved in political corruption on both sides of the aisle, and SBF is both a financial criminal and someone involved in political corruption (on both sides of the aisle, even), so he is something of an ideal Trump pardon candidate.


> That is more likely than a Biden pardon

Since SBF publicly despised Trump, donated vast sum to his opponents, and tried to architect Trump not being president I'd say that's less likely.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sbf-wanted-tom-brady-to-run-...


I read in the Michael Lewis book that at one point SBF was floating the idea of paying Trump not to run, and asked around for what a reasonable number would be, and figured it would be around 50 billion


He was one of Biden's biggest donors and generally supports democrats.

>Bankman-Fried’s largest donations were $27 million to his own super PAC, which supported Democratic candidates, and $6 million to a PAC that helps elect Democrats to the U.S. House. Bankman-Fried also gave the maximum $5,800 each to support dozens of candidates, mostly Democrats.

>President Joe Biden’s 2020 run for president was one of the major beneficiaries of Bankman-Fried’s donations. Bankman-Fried gave $5 million to a PAC that supported President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, $50,000 to Biden Victory Fund, and $2,800 directly to Biden for President.

1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/16/ftx-...


Is there an extension that can make it compete with TigerBeetle for transaction processing speed?


That would surely be impossible. TB is designed from the ground up to do one thing and do that one thing well. Postgres is a swiss army knife, and TB is a knife.


Yes I think this is the one area where specialized DBs will win over PG


Why downvoted? Genuine question.


This was an overreach by the EU. Android is open source, let Epic launch their own phone, or their own Android store.

Methinks this crowd loves regulation a bit too much.


What the recent Argentinian president had proposed for his country would be a good start for the US


US voters have consistently rejected such policies for nearly a century, if not longer.

While there are certainly people who believe as you do, you are not in a majority. There are also a lot of people in Argentina (possibly a majority) who don't agree with those policies either.


If you are a US business, it’s hard to escape the overly burdensome US taxes.


Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, what did the fed expect?


What an insult to someone who has taken on the responsibility of raising a child. Of course they should be called parents. A man doesn’t adopt a son only to be called his “child raiser”. Stop this foolish line of thought.


You're the only one in this thread not attaching the same connotations of "child raiser" to "parent" and considering one lesser than the other. I don't know what's more insulting, being called a child raiser, or considering child raiser to be off-brand parent rather than a generalization of the term.

"No man goes into education to be called 'instructor', they're 'teachers'."

"No woman goes into CS to be called 'coder', they're 'developers'."


Some children are raised by grandparents, aunts or uncles, siblings, etc.


His talk on the early internet https://youtu.be/08jBmCvxkv4?feature=shared


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