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Middle of last year I got laid off. I just hit up a few friends and got job offers immediately. I was able to delay going back to work for 6 months (the last job paid me out ~20 weeks redundancy, I saved a lot) and just chilled out.

Having friends in the industry helps tremendously.

Because someone else will come along and create an exchange that offers ponzi-like interest rates and run you of out of business. Also promising never to gamble with the depositors' funds etc

First picture in the article show a scene from Brisbane, where I live. And there are a lot of these suburbs. Brisbane is built on a flood-plain.

But the house prices in the low-lying suburbs that were hit hardest are still very strong. And my home insurance has gone up by 30%.

"There's no need for a proxy like nginx; redbean is vertically integrated."

Anyone have suggestions for caching? router? Something small and lightweight in the spirit of readbean itself.

If this group can bribe insiders so easily, imagine what a state-level actor can do.

Whenever I come across risky stuff like this I make a song and dance about it at meetings so when someone (incl. me) trips over it, well, I warned everyone including management. And whenever I am tasked to do it I send message on Teams to make as much noise as possible. Logging into prod environments, into prod databases, running scripts as root etc.