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    Comment #47360663

    LBO firm will create a new company called Acquisition Co. ("AcqCo") and put $500K of cash into it (equity). The Blue Owl will lend $2M to AcqCo (debt). AcqCo uses the $2.5M to buy …

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    Comment #46129793

    Your blog article stopped at token generation... you need to continue to revenue per token. Then go even further... The revenue for AI company is a cost for the AI customer. Where …

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    Comment #45648839

    Yeah, I thought it was weird right away too, but brush it off as a tech blog... but then I realized it's actually a finance website. Ruins the credibility of the website instantly.…

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    Comment #44229722

    It's button camouflage. My 82 year old mother has enough trouble figuring out what is a button vs. what's not. She just taps everything on screen to find out. This is going to make…

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    Comment #43869838

    It's not only meaningless due to T-Mobile being untrustworthy, it's meaningless if it's for a specific network speed or volume. For example, would 3G and a 2GB plan for $50 lifetim…

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    Comment #42433557

    My boss would take a piece of data/input and run it through the entire process. It's a string data here, converts to number here, function transforms it here, summarized here, outp…

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    Comment #42433411

    If you create the plan like a mathematical formula like my boss did, the evidence becomes irrefutable... like a mathematical proof. The article does mention that the plan is commun…

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    Comment #42425758

    I had a boss who had a math degree. He'd map out the flow from start to finish on a whiteboard like you see mathematicians on TV/movies. Always had the smoothest projects because h…

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    Comment #42029031

    If any Excel alternative wants to make a dent in market share, they need an option for users to mimic all the main Excel shortcuts. Google Sheets is close so it's useable; however,…

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    Comment #41987173

    The general advice is to have top of monitor at eye level, but it's been wrong advice for me personally. I now put the middle of the monitor at eye level. Keeps my head up and post…

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    Comment #41986601

    Does any one else have mouse lag with giant high pixel density monitors?

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    Comment #41049206

    Poker has strategy, randomness and asymmetric info.

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    Comment #40467449

    I realized that long ago... it's incredible that it took this long given how common it is in programming.

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    Comment #40466860

    As part of an intro to optimization class in university, we inputted gov't nutrition health guidelines and the McDonalds nutritional menu into a model. Solved how we could hit the …

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    Comment #39919540

    > 1) They're engineered. Famous last words.

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    Comment #39502967

    Especially with the US social media trend of anti-work and quiet-quitting

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    Comment #39502333

    Yes, it's similar to someone buying land in California. You still "own" the land, but it's still in United States. Ras el-Hekma is still in Egypt. It just happens to be owned by UA…

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    Comment #39210951

    You're not asking the correct questions as an interviewer. You should be asking specific questions about projects they've worked on, or about them personally to get to know them. C…

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    Comment #38712499

    Elon Musk single handedly pushing usage of solar and reducing fossil fuels in cars. Jeff Bezo drove costs down for consumer products. Peter Thiel and Elon at PayPal reduced financi…

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    Comment #38712279

    Definitely gets the point across in an instant. Excellent marketing. It's insanity that even when Messages.app is closed, the messages still pop up. Even when not screensharing - I…

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    Comment #37993852

    The gov't isn't really in control of housing prices. First, they (congress + Fed) have some tools but they can be limited in effectiveness. Second, gov't doesn't seem to be functio…

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    Comment #37837615

    Also, it's not a complete failure according to the article he mentions "The 20-page report doesn’t argue for hydrogen’s complete removal from the energy mix. In fact, REI argues th…

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    Comment #37803074

    My recollection was that he was a good governor but tied up with political red tape. Also, compare him to other California governors since then and he doesn’t seem so bad.

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    Comment #37721620

    I thought they were going to continue their 80s dominance with their robot technology, starting with those amazing vending machines. But then nothing happened.

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