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by me_again 2mo ago
Stocks and bonds are different things, and the bond issue is separate from the IPO. Both are ways for companies to raise money, SpaceX did both. This thread's nominally about the bond, but for some reason everyone's talking about
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by me_again 5mo ago
Was VMWare dying prior to the acquisition? I don't really know the financials but that wasn't the impression I had.
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by me_again 5mo ago
Amused by how many X's there are: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#1100B Did you mean Aegean Check Mark or Old North Arabian letter Teh?
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by me_again 8mo ago
That would be significantly less than one person, regardless of how off the population estimates are ;-)
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by me_again 9mo ago
I think there are 2 claims which this article conflates. I'll jokingly call them "Weak Whitney" and "Strong Whitney". "Weak Whitney" is the claim that this very terse style is comprehensible given sufficie
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by me_again 10mo ago
I don't think we have enough information to conclude exactly what happened. But my read is the researcher was looking for demo.filevine.com and found margolis.filevine.com instead. The implication is that many other customers may have
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by me_again 10mo ago
Lawyers can and will send cease and desist letters to people whether or not there is any legal basis for it. Often the threat of a lawsuit, even a meritless one, is enough to keep people quiet.
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by me_again 11mo ago
ArXiv has always had a moderation step. The moderators are unable to keep up with the volume of submissions. Accepting these reviews without moderation would be a change to current process, not "just like arXiv has always worked"
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by me_again 11mo ago
Hillel Wayne posted a followup https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/three-ways-formal... which may be interesting. Essentially the issue is "what does the Length of a string mean?"
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by me_again 11mo ago
"As soon as profit can be made" is exactly what the article is warning about. This is exactly the "Human + AI" combination. Within your lifetime (it's probably already happened) you will be denied something you care
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by me_again 11mo ago
As I understand it, they persuade their marks to transfer bitcoin to accounts they control.
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by me_again 11mo ago
But what do you do when the primary and backup disagree?
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by me_again 1y ago
Actually no - there's a "please help fund us" but you can read without paying
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by me_again 1y ago
Not exactly the same, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome... is a technique used in radio astronomy which uses two receivers a long way apart and a very accurate clock to approximate having
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by me_again 1y ago
Vulnerability reports are interesting from a trust point of view, because each party has a different financial incentive. You can't 100% trust the vendor to accurately assess the severity of an issue - they have a lot riding on downpla
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by me_again 1y ago
The grandmother hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis is reasonably well-established. The corresponding 'grandfather effect' has not really been demonstrated, as far as I know. http
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by me_again 1y ago
Donald Trump, champion of the locavore community. Now I've heard everything.
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by me_again 2y ago
There's an awful lot of "35% this, 27% the other" numbers in this article, and exactly 0 citations for any of them.
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by me_again 2y ago
Seems to me private equity is often, though not always, a terrific way to run a previously-stable business into the ground in short order. See for example https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423290 .
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by me_again 2y ago
I don't believe there is really any interest in balancing the Federal budget or saving money. It's a flimsy pretext for purging every person and program not ideologically aligned with the incoming administration. Would anyone like
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by me_again 2y ago
Marco Pierre-White recommends grating onions, which ingeniously avoids the entire issue. Grating the Gordian knot, if you will. https://youtu.be/glIUUrh6qtQ?t=40
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by me_again 2y ago
As I understand it (not completely), according to the SHIELD act, the losing party in a patent dispute has to pay legal fees for both sides, which are usually substantial. If the lawyers who really own the patent represent themselves, they
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by me_again 2y ago
Not a direct answer, but Ethernet is sometimes brought up as a successful example of Worse is Better. At one point Token Ring was a serious competitor - it had careful designs to avoid collisions when the network was busy, prioritize traffi
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by me_again 2y ago
A lot of "why TF would anyone you do this?" questions can be answered with variations like this. Borrowing from economics, the discount rate defines how much more valuable something is RIGHT NOW vs at some point in the future. If
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by me_again 2y ago
I sometimes wonder about the commercial impact of source code leaks. In this case, nobody noticed until the product was commercially irrelevant, but what might have happened if some competitor had noticed? My guess is probably nothing. Havi
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by me_again 2y ago
This was one of the ideas pursued in the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative, aka Star Wars. They weren't able to develop a system that would work against ICBMs. Powering an aircraft is both easier and harder; the aircraft presumab
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by me_again 2y ago
That doesn't sound like an airline I would care to fly! During takeoff a 747 consumes power at a rate of about 90MW. Having something outside the plane, whether in orbit or ground-based, pumping that much power into the plane while I&#
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by me_again 2y ago
Patents are a stronger signal of a company focused on financial engineering than a company focused on innovation.
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by me_again 2y ago
IBM is to software as Boeing is to planes. I will not be taking questions ;-)
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by me_again 2y ago
"zero-error policy" as described here is a remarkable euphemism. You might hope that the policy is not to make any errors. In fact the policy is not to acknowledge that errors can occur!

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