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Kyle Samani out. Sashaaa in. Real talk though. How are you guys letting a *one week old* Perp Trader beat you all? Day 3 on RISEx looking good, for me...so far. :)

@audracmorris @aakashgupta Haha I do remember the annoying pine needles Can’t believe it grew that huge though, now that I look back it’s been a while since I’ve seen a house with nicely grown trees (besides recently in New Zealand of course)

@sashaaa @aakashgupta Pine trees are an entirely different story. Pine trees are the devil. A house we rented recently had several pine trees in the back yard. I could have quit my job and raked pine needles full time and it still would have never been clear.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

People underestimate the impact of good customer service, especially in DeFi where you can defer to decentralization and self custody and say it’s not your problem. But some of the best successes and turnarounds I’ve seen are the projects who take their users and builders very seriously. One of the prime examples is @manh3006, the very diligent CTO of KyberSwap who would go out of his way to be responsive and directly support builders using the APIs and even work through custom solutions wherever needed. It was a huge factor in one of the biggest integration rallies-hundreds of integrations.

A farmer in New Zealand just told me how you have to have a permit to do irrigation because if everyone did it, it would affect the water flow. If every farmer pumped as much water as they wanted, it would quickly drain underground aquifers and drop river levels to dangerously low points. This would harm local ecosystems, deplete fish populations, and be risky for downstream users. Not sure about the impacts of rainwater though but it makes sense that water is regulated. Doesn’t make sense that he was jailed.

Its illegal to harvest rain water in the USA This is a matrix guys Thats what they want to do in Kenya

@michael314 Yea it’s very common and not just coffee machines but the kettles especially. Learned about it years ago.

@sashaaa this? x.com/JakeCan72/stat…

Idk who still needs to hear this, but don’t use hotel room water kettles… Bring a portable one, like this one from Xiaomi

CIA rejected me way back then when I graduated college. Plus CIA is mainly desk jobs anyways, which my former professor from there mentioned. And despite having two active security clearances, the State Department rejected me specifically for Vietnam because I knew too many high ranking people. They said they would also likely reject me in China for similar reasons and suggested I apply for anywhere else but China and Vietnam. It doesn’t make sense because I specialized in the region in my politics/diplomacy undergrad (and later business master’s); and you end up with networks in the regions you specialize in… but oh well. But fun fact, U Chicago Harris accepted me with a recommendation letter from a director at the State Department, a former British Ambassador to Cuba / former Deputy Head of Mission in Venezuela, and the Head of the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC. Anyways, I switched to private sector after that.

@sashaaa ngl you'd be good in espionage... wtf so many ppl inviting you into their homes out of the blue

Vietnamese people are so nice, even in the city. I was surveying new neighborhoods and started chatting with a guy walking on the road near me. Next thing you know he called several family members over to meet me and answer my questions and invited me to see his house. Turns out I did a TV episode on his family’s home province. Another guy in another neighborhood brought me in and gave me a full 30+ minute tour of his house, and all his construction contacts and intel. Turns out he’s an IT outsourcing company owner. And this past weekend, another guy in another neighborhood invited me in to show me his house and give intel on the neighborhood. Turns out he’s a retired ship captain of a huge Vietnamese petro ship. He said the pay should be nice right now with the oil supply issues. Turns out he and my grandpa come from the same hometown. Then a woman and her Korean husband in another house gave me some intel. And recently I was sitting on the floor with 4 maids (there’s an “Uber for maids” app where you can book on demand) and we were all discussing about life and dreams and gossip in Vietnamese. It was so cute actually. One of the maid’s husbands came to pick her up in a Grab uniform. We joked it’s the ultimate sharing economy power couple of Vietnam. Super wholesome, as always.

@JoshKale So cool!

This is straight out of Black Mirror... DoorDash's new app pays delivery drivers to strap on body cameras and film themselves doing household chores to train AI robots The tasks: - Wash five dishes on camera, holding each up to the lens - Film yourself folding laundry - Record an unscripted conversation in Spanish - Walk a grocery aisle filming every shelf - A few bucks per clip DoorDash feeds this into AI and robotics models, and sells the data to partners across tech, retail, and hospitality. They have 8 million drivers across nearly every zip code in America. It's a real world data collection machine no AI lab could replicate. Meanwhile, DoorDash is actively deploying autonomous delivery robots in Arizona. Partnered with Waymo for driverless deliveries in Phoenix. Signed a deal with Serve Robotics for sidewalk bots in LA. Committed to commercializing autonomous delivery this year. Uber and Instacart are running the same playbook. Voice recordings. Photo uploads. Wrist mounted cameras capturing every hand movement while workers cook dinner. The entire gig industry is converting its workforce into AI training data. Funny side note: DoorDash also pays drivers $11 to close Waymo car doors the robot can't close itself The most valuable new gig might just be showing a machine how to do yours. Wild times

@ripeth Great to hear. 🔥 Congratulations Rip.

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SASHAs support SASHAs. ALEXs too.

@hantengri Use DefiLlama and KyberSwap 🫶

someone accidentally swapped 50m for 36k and for a few hours it got ct talking about defi again like the good old days feel bad for the guy but honestly we desperately needed this after drowning in ai slop and timeline middle east experts just use defillama btw

@Scroll_ZKP Congratulations @razacodes

An important update: Raza, who has been leading growth at Scroll for the past 2 years, is being promoted to CEO of Up Labs (the operating entity behind Scroll). This is a recognition of the work he's already been doing and a natural next step as our priorities shift. Scroll's infrastructure is now mature. The focus now shifts towards distribution, adoption, and getting Scroll into more hands, and that calls for a tighter, more execution-focused org. Haichen, the CTO of Up Labs, is joining Sandy at the Scroll Foundation to lead Scroll's technical vision. Sandy has been the director of the Foundation for the past 2 years, and continues in her role as she always has. They will both continue to actively operate in the ecosystem and work closely with the Up Labs team to guide execution. The mission for Scroll stays the same, the only thing that is changing is how we're structured internally to execute on it. Scroll's next chapter will focus on building products that reach real users, and this structure puts us in the best position to do that. Onward.

Hey Sasha what’s your job? I use a lot of blobs.

Yea, weird. I came across a similar practice in Vietnam where employees think it’s normal to share commission with salespeople of venues they choose for events. But usually it’s the salespeople offering part of their commission to the staff so the staff chooses their venue. But yours is even worse.

guys what do you think about this situation? -a company reaches out for a sponsored post -i send my rates -they say it’s too expensive and ask if i can do it for half -i say no -they come back asking if i’d do 75% of my rate + referral commissions -i say ok if it’s just a post -then the person negotiating, who works full time at the project, asks me for 25% of the commissions (making the payment the price i asked for in the beginning) and says that once the payment is sent i should transfer his part am i crazy or is this insane and a horrible practise for a FT employee?

everyone will give a fuck about decentralization again soon and it’s going to be glorious but unfortunately it will be due to a lot of pain coming from centralized forces

@grok @MickiCrossChain 150kg

Pickleball courts in the US are booming with younger crowds too—active, social vibe without the heavy religious angle. For serious marriage-minded: Hinge or Bumble (set "long-term" or "marriage" intent), eharmony for compatibility focus. IRL: Meetup.com for hiking/cooking/board games/sports leagues, secular volunteering (animal shelters, trail cleanups), friends-of-friends intros, or work/alumni events. Shared hobbies + values beat everything.

What’s the best way to find a serious girlfriend (dating for marriage) who is not super religious these days? Asking for a friend. In Vietnam, it’s the Pickleball courts. How about the US?

@MickiCrossChain @grok please answer this one

@sashaaa Are u even allowed to play pickleball if ure under 75yo and 150kg?

Don’t ask for permission. It’s your collateral. Use it. List any token permissionlessly

@aadith_gbd The genius hack But my friend is finishing med school and will work as a doctor in the US, so he can’t become a passport bro

@sashaaa Overheard for US people, it's flight ticket to VN+ pickleball courts

@emacosc Finding non-religious girls who still want to get married is arguably harder Especially ‘tradwives’

@sashaaa Isn’t finding religious girls the hardest thing these days?😄