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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 b…

Was VMWare dying prior to the acquisition? I don't really know the financials but that wasn't the impression I had.

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?

That would be significantly less than one person, regardless of how off the population estimates are ;-)

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 comp…

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.…

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 …

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…

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 …

"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) yo…

As I understand it, they persuade their marks to transfer bitcoin to accounts they control.

But what do you do when the primary and backup disagree?

Actually no - there's a "please help fund us" but you can read without paying

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 ver…

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 s…

The grandmother hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis is reasonably well-established. The corresponding 'grandfather effect' has not really been demonstra…

Donald Trump, champion of the locavore community. Now I've heard everything.

There's an awful lot of "35% this, 27% the other" numbers in this article, and exactly 0 citations for any of them.

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/s…

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 w…

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

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 l…

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 a…

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 somethin…

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 som…