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New comment by Redoubts in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

Redoubts — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:55:51 +0000

Arguably vacancy taxes are just Georgism with extra steps

Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

Redoubts — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/inside-hudson-river-tradings-blistering-token-burn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568851

Points: 4

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The Rape Gang Inquiry Report [pdf]

Redoubts — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:18:44 +0000

Article URL: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6810978a41bbc42489eafa81/t/6a314bb1151e511944bd4421/1781615537601/The+Rape+Gang+Inquiry+Report.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568730

Points: 8

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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

Redoubts — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:59:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freerange.city/p/why-do-commercial-spaces-sit-vacant

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566791

Points: 127

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New comment by Redoubts in "My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin"

Redoubts — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:30:44 +0000

> Just a reminder "gay panic defense." is still used in court today in the USA

Can you cite a case in the last 5 years?

Can you cite a case in the last 20 years where the jury didn’t roll their eyes?

New comment by Redoubts in "Ask HN: What has HN given you?"

Redoubts — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:07 +0000

referral bonuses from a few people via who's hiring

New comment by Redoubts in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

Redoubts — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:42:33 +0000

I mean the salary difference is a few hundred k, so this all just reads like cope.

New comment by Redoubts in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

Redoubts — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:04:54 +0000

Couldn't think of a more incorrect diagnosis if I tried. State government budgets have been ballooning for the last decade; but political leaders don't give a shit about tracking outcomes, only celebrating starting things and how much money they spend.

New comment by Redoubts in "Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud"

Redoubts — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:13:21 +0000

Ok, but me and my buddies think you use tenuous judgement to characterize words as violence, and enable people to use physical violence in “retaliation”.

That’s a bright line violence against innocents, so we’re closing all your checking accounts and preventing you from paying for anything without cash. And if people try to help you, we’ll say loudly in polite society that they traffic in blood money.

I hope you understand.

New comment by Redoubts in "Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud"

Redoubts — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:27:49 +0000

> In short, despite the article's somewhat negative tone overall, I don't think anything described is actually a negative thing

I think the main thing to criticize, is that

1. Banks are deputized as ersatz law enforcement, and will cooperate in ways you would otherwise expect to warrant a warrant, or do damage to people you would otherwise expect a court to gate.

2. Government has set up laws that on their face sound reasonable, but are extremely easy to run afoul of, and extremely easy to prosecute.

3. Banks have delegated decision making to private entities, which confounds oversight and is probably extremely under regulated vs anyone’s expectations

4. A lot of this power is wielded at the discretion of political actors at both ends

5. The main lesson of American politics since Nov 2016 is that we need more guardrails than “discretion”

New comment by Redoubts in "Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud"

Redoubts — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:15:42 +0000

I guess this case is especially interesting and novel because of how the government has deputized banks as ersatz law enforcement, and banks have delegated decision making to SPLC as ersatz compliance officers.

I’m not sure what the law could and should be in this case, but I suspect it’s woefully underspeced to the chagrin of most parties.

Hence, bank/wire fraud.

About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean

Redoubts — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:50:19 +0000

Article URL: https://sainthelenaisland.info/index.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992118

Points: 3

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New comment by Redoubts in "Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations"

Redoubts — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:41:44 +0000

there were talks for the US government to take a large equity stake as part of a bailout, but those fell through

New comment by Redoubts in "Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud"

Redoubts — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:14:25 +0000

I’m really surprised I didn’t get auto-duped. Usually submission of the same url gets forwarded to the old post if it’s recent enough…

Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud

Redoubts — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:04:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/nonprofit-indicted-bank-fraud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981933

Points: 53

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Bank Python

Redoubts — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:09:58 +0000

Article URL: https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828906

Points: 3

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New comment by Redoubts in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

Redoubts — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:46:23 +0000

is it? it's insanely ugly and interactions seem bizarre

New comment by Redoubts in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

Redoubts — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:43:00 +0000

In a way it's really sad how many swings and misses Canonical has taken in its history.

New comment by Redoubts in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

Redoubts — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:36:04 +0000

Yeah, probably? The french revolution sucked ass for everyone involved.

New comment by Redoubts in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

Redoubts — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:59:26 +0000

We have rights and representative republics to restrain the will of the people for a reason.