Interested in Wikipedia, startups, technology, The Villages, politics, running, and making my own raisins. The best lobbyists blend into the background.๐ฅ
@OnlyInBOS General range for full-day weekday parking in Downtown Boston garages: $30โ$50+, sometimes higher during events or peak times. Hourly rates in garages often start at $10โ$20 for the first hour or so.
@BostonDotCom The market is signaling that many jobs with large, highly educated, typically higher-paid teams will be eliminated due to inefficiencies. The market is adjusting, as it always does.
Getting tickets to the FIFA World Cup is difficult and expensive because of the huge global demand that outstrips the limited supply of seats, combined with FIFA's use of dynamic (variable) pricing that raises costs in real time for high-interest matches and its monopoly control over sales and an official resale platform that adds large commissions.
@BostonGlobe How many Hampshire students does it take to change a lightbulb?
None; they voted to deconstruct the concept of "light" as oppressive and decided to sit in the dark discussing it instead.
@OnlyInBOS Anton Peraire-Bueno and James Peraire-Bueno - These MIT alumni (studying computer science and math) were charged in 2024 with a sophisticated cryptocurrency scheme in which they allegedly exploited the Ethereum blockchain to steal approximately $25 million in about 12 seconds.