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That’s a very good point. At the least, the stock price should go to zero. I guess your point is that they are artificially keeping the company out of bankruptcy/receivership.

They didn’t say to let the government run it. Make the patents/trade secrets public domain and sell off the physical assets in open auctions. Someone would buy up the profitable ma…

How would investors know if something is kept secret?

Yes. See 47 USC Section 230. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

You did make good standalone points. Monopolies have strong downsides.

It is the error message you often get when creating a password.

How is that different than C++? The places where you would pick something like Python instead for expediency still apply… To be honest, I used to feel the same way that you do abou…

It doesn’t appear that you read the article. Social science journals definitely are organizations, businesses and/or single entities that could change.

I’m glad those police were exercising restraint. A similar situation gone wrong was in the news just last week. https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/epz9nm/colorado-grandma-...

Recently, Stacy Abrams and Terry McAuliffe concerning the 2018 race: “She would be the governor of Georgia today had the governor of Georgia not disenfranchised 1.4 million Georgia…

If SBF embezzled FTX customer funds to make his donations, then I’m not sure why FTX directly donating a smaller sum is significant. Personally, I see it as a more general example …

I agree. Of course, SBF overwhelmingly supported Democrat candidates... https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-team-amon... I prefer to read your comment as an epic tro…

My kids' bus stop (in Florida) is half a mile from the house. This is absurd. She should be writing Governor Abbott about a pardon. He was just up for re-election last week and mig…

That's the problem with the legal system. It's extraordinarily common to plead guilty when innocent because fighting the charge is more damaging than accepting a deal. I even had t…

That’s analogous to saying that “vaccination isn’t a great strategy from the perspective of those with adverse reactions.” In another thread, you did not accept that line of reason…

I definitely did NOT know that when the vaccinations were first rolled out. Do you have a source?

As far as I know, the only instance of a poison pill being triggered was Versata Enterprises, Inc. in December 2008. TL;DR: A competitor (Selectica, Inc.)--wishing to purchase Vers…

I agree with you, but he doesn’t really have the authority to push the investigation in any other way than to roast whoever he has access to in public meetings. There isn’t congres…

To prevent rehashing this, I have discovered the exact same discussion from 5 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11884645

Fauci himself told The Washington Post that mask supply was a motive back in July 2020. So, it was a combination of two factors as you rightly point out. Thank you for correcting m…

The post that is now flagged was referring to Dr. Fauci's March 8, 2020 statement that "there's no reason to be walking around with a mask." Dr. Fauci made that statement in a cont…

I'd never considered the modulo operator to be that uncommon, but I've mostly worked in systems software and firmware. Is that really the case?

> I've worked with people who were fine programmers and when I brought up FizzBuzz had no idea how to solve it. I would not categorize FizzBuzz as a puzzle. It is one of the most s…