The road to hell is paved with good intentions. While this is based on good intentions to try to reduce traffic fatalities, I personally feel it's an overstep to try and mandate devices to track to limit a car's top speed. This isn't even considering the edge cases and ensuring this works properly.
The only close thing I can relate this to is an Ignition Interlock Device to limit DUIs, but that seems more acceptable to me since it limits the starting of the car instead of interfering while the car is running and it's required after someone loses the community's trust by having DUIs.
Have you considered using Native? The reason I mention this is that Native mobile development has come a long way with recent additions like Swift+SwiftUI for iOS and Kotlin+Jetpack Compose for Android.
Some things to consider.
1. You will have to deal with the iOS and Android respective build systems and updates. Apple likes to force updates on developers (new to update Xcode + MacOS to leverage newer SDKs). Adding React Native or Dart/Flutter adds one more build system to learn along with another set of dependencies (node.js, etc) to keep up to date.
2. Both SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose are defined using Declarative UI, which you will find similar to what you experienced in React+Typescript. A lot of the paradigms translate well and I believe Swift and Kotlin are somewhat similar.
Overall, if I had to choose between React Native vs Flutter, I would choose React Native. It is a proven solution deployed by lots of production apps. The documentation is extensive and examples are readily online along with 3P libraries. Facebook is committed to React and its development, React has a large developer community, and you will benefit from using Native UI widgets and re-using your Typescript background.
I didn't mention that it was 'easy', only 'nicer'. I wasn't clear that I was comparing it to a what a state prison would be. I also didn't mean to insinuate that prison is easy or nice, only that my belief is that white-collar crimes (especially ones were lots of money is involved) tend to get the guilty party into a federal prison that will treat them better. Of course, this is all relative. I'd rather not go to any prison, however if there was a choice or ability to influence the decision, I'd prefer a "nicer" federal prison, especially one of the ones listed as the best prisons to go to.
I do believe a lot of people would trade a federal prison sentence if they were able to steal millions and were able to get it afterwards. Of course, the prison sentence to how much money was made will vary per individual.
Some quick links from google on the best federal prisons where it mentions there are "nicer" federal prisons.
Thank you for the link. That helps answer my question and 11K doesn't seem worth the risk. I was honestly expecting a much larger profit than that. His friend made ~$40K in gains. Both had to pay fines which is good.
The justice.gov article has more insights than the news article. From what I can tell, he initially got off on probation for insider trading instead of prison due to 12 letters of references vouching for his character, and he altered/falsified 6 of them. Seems like isolated attempt at profiteering, but I also wonder if this helped contribute to the collapse as well.
I wonder how much profit the VP made during his tenure and as part of the insider trading. It seems like the cost of that benefit is $11,300 ($10K fine + $1.3K special assessment) and 15 months in prison which I assume will be a "nicer" prison.
White collar crime seems to pay well, and the consequences don't seem too harsh.
Edit: the $11.3K and 15 months is for falsifying documents. I don't know if he had a separate fine for the insider trading.
The only close thing I can relate this to is an Ignition Interlock Device to limit DUIs, but that seems more acceptable to me since it limits the starting of the car instead of interfering while the car is running and it's required after someone loses the community's trust by having DUIs.