BoneDrained
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BoneDrained
2yr ago
The most objective misrepresentation would be the size of his triplex penthouse: is it 30k ft² or 11k ft²? The dispute starts with this Forbes article, which tells us that Trump occupies the top three floors along with his sole neighbor who has 3,368 ft². Trump had been claiming 33k or 30k ft², but the city records show only 10,996. This does seem like a large discrepancy, and the author doesn't have an explanation other than perhaps a large amount of mechanical space.
When looking at the details of Trump Tower, the floors are numbered, but not by how many floors there are. When you go up one floor from the 5th, you arrive at the 14th floor.
From a typical floor plan in Trump Tower, we can calculate that each residential floor is about 11k ft² (not including the large central square for elevators and stairs). If Trump owned the top three floors, this would nicely match his claim of 33k ft². From the 1983 declaration, the sum of the units on a typical floor is 10,089 ft². For the top three floors, there is a 2,764 ft² duplex, and two triplexes summing to 11,195 ft². This leaves at least 16,308 ft² unaccounted for on these top three floors.
If the triplex had large atriums, that could explain some of the missing floor space, but all the pictures I found showed normal-height (elaborately decorated) ceilings.
Most high-rise buildings have mechanical floors for HVAC, water pumps/tanks, etc. Trump Tower doesn't appear to have any dedicated mechanical floors, other than the roof above the 68th. Instead, there are mechanical rooms on the 16th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 66th, 67th, and 68th floors. When calculating "Usable Square Feet" for a full-floor tenant, these mechanical rooms are included. This gets us close to the claimed 30k ft².
So perhaps it's possible that two reported floor sizes, differing by a factor of three, are both accurate.
Roko was banned for revealing Alice and Chloe's real names. It's not hard to figure out their names, but I'll refrain from revealing them, to prevent the search engines from linking them to this.
I want to highlight this comment, contrasting the nonlinear environment with normal professional employment. Erica had the insight that Alice and Chloe might be "exploited immigrants," and indeed they are from Germany and Denmark.
Chloe is still active in EA, with a similar job title, but hopefully her current job is lower stress and more aligned with her interests. Her boyfriend from Puerto Rico has also continued in the EA space and has several posts on EA forums.
Alice has been deleting some of her online activity, and possibly changing her name. She frequents vegan restaurants and continues to be poly (amazingly, with prediction markets).
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