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no, they issued more stock. stock is a claim on corporate equity, ie the delta between assets and liabilities. existing stock holders' claim to equity gets diluted when this happen…

worth reading for rich's crazy jokes alone. the fact he is telling them to senior military brass in the context of negotiating his division's survival after kelly johnson's retirem…

i agree its crazy but i thought tfa did a good job explaining why the original chart ended up looking the way it did. regime change in a dataset can expose bad assumptions about re…

this guy is going to love moby dick

the best translations will usually have a brief explanation of the function various forms of patronymic & affectionate name forms which carry meaning in russian. translating every …

i also reacted negatively to the title but found the article to be redemptively unpretentious. i think any fan of dostoevsky would agree with his conclusions and be happy that this…

pedal by wire

youtube channel schematix did a two-part series of iteratively improving a TEG rocket stove. very entertaining but i dont think i'll be building one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…

it's wild to me, given all the delays and complexity and risk, that the mission length is only 5-10 years max. but even if it blows up on the launchpad we've learned a ton, if only…

Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure. Oh, busy weaver! unseen weaver!--pause!--one word!--whither flows the fabric…

mass appeal is overrated. being able to use terminal mode over ssh is more useful to me than rounded buttons.

people will seemingly hop aboard anything that gives them authority over other people. i am reminded of that scientology grade chart that leaked a while back[1]. the end result of …

while i more or less agree with your general thesis (bodies are good at grabbing what they need), tracking a few days of eating on cronometer or some other site that breaks out mic…

i went through this process several years ago. it was initially easy to force myself into correct technique, as "do the opposite of what feels natural" stably led me down the right…

i suggest you read 'bartleby the scrivener' by herman melville[1]. bartleby is most famous for the scene(s) where he tells his manager 'i'd prefer not to' when asked to do basic pa…

and dont get me wrong, i am glad all types exist and meet in the market. what i am implying above is that i view a management team that makes decisions based on share price as abou…

>but no one cares about that long-term indeed. and i congratulate you on your recent success in predicting the tastes of others who buy equities based on speculative price action. …

founders that talk to pg are still working for rich people. they just negotiated a longer leash and more food.

i think its a fair condensation. the discussion of google is pretty incidental and given the lack of any actual official connection to GOOG, i think we should be shrewd in our asse…

if someone is looking for a book where ancient philosophical ideas are critically applied to modern institutions and ideas, look elsewhere. this appears to be aimed at undergrad te…

its a common enough workload that dedicated hardware for it has emerged, and software written to utilize that hardware is becoming more common place.