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by gvb 4y ago
By not paying payroll and US taxes, Twitter will instantaneously become profitable! ...briefly. :-O
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by gvb 4y ago
It was also Queeq's substandard performance. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny
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by gvb 4y ago
Twitter, not Tesla.
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by gvb 4y ago
Bad FTX
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by gvb 4y ago
"Working Hard is not the same as working smart" https://steveblank.com/2016/09/07/working-hard-is-not-the-sa... [Steve] pointed out to [the CEO] that what he was watching was that his entire company
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by gvb 4y ago
It used to be worse! https://business.time.com/2013/11/06/how-twitter-slayed-the-...
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by gvb 4y ago
Binance triggered the collapse, but the stage was set by FTX/Alameda by "creating its own token" (per "The FTX-Alameda nexus") and "loaning" $10bn to Alameda using their "own created token" as th
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by gvb 4y ago
"The FTX-Alameda nexus" https://www.coppolacomment.com/2022/11/the-ftx-alameda-nexus... Excellent explanation. Appears to be confirmed by the WSG "FTX Tapped Into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bet
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/oJTJN
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by gvb 4y ago
Elon Musk details his plan to turn Twitter into PayPal, but now with interest on positive and negative balances!
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by gvb 4y ago
The individual home flipper working out of their own money is going to only choose projects that look very favorable. The corporation is going to hire a manager and that manager will probably be told to close a certain amount of deal flow
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by gvb 4y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1590709166515310593.html
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by gvb 4y ago
No. a) The mirror would need to be continuous. No gaps. b) The mirror would have to be perfect. No dirt. No smudges. Ref: https://www.quora.com/Will-a-laser-burn-through-a-mirror
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/HAiSP "Jack Dorsey has rolled his entire stake of Twitter shares, worth nearly $1bn at the buyout price of $54.20, into the privately held company he founded, which is now controlled by Elon Musk.&qu
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Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion(krebsonsecurity.com)
8 points by gvb 4y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 4y ago
This is not a new threat. It was first made September 12, 2022: https://documents.unoda.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Unoff... Source: "Open-ended working group on reducing space threats / Sta
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by gvb 4y ago
More likely disabling them to prevent them from monitoring (naval) vessel traffic: "Packed with sensors, the fiberoptic lines measured environmental conditions and fish migration, recording images and sound, and sending all the informa
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/GM6CO
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by gvb 4y ago
"What Happens When You Actually Hit a Moose? Volvo Has a Moose-Strike Test for That." (2018) https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a22604428/what-happens...
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by gvb 4y ago
Its a programmable calculator on steroids. You create "one liner" programs (lambdas) that do mathematical operations like you would with a programmable calculator, including saving to memory and recalling from memory. You can then
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by gvb 4y ago
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/03/13/905323/ai-lie-de... Skip to the end for the tl;dr: The foundational premise of AI lie detection is that lies are there to be seen with the right tools. Psycho
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A Firefighter’s Theorem (Beddian Year)(newyorker.com)
1 points by gvb 4y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/G42wy
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by gvb 4y ago
"[The fall of GE] arguably begins with the arrival of the legendary Jack Welch as CEO in 1981." Ref: "The fall of GE" https://theweek.com/articles/761357/fall-ge (2018)
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/SA0pH "When Japanese conglomerate SoftBank bought the company in 2016, it made a commitment to double the chip designer’s 1,770 British workforce over the following five years. It succeeded, accordin
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/G2Iy8 This is very scary; if the economy is totally disrupted, the Russian "Federation" could splinter into a mess of countries/fiefdoms, many with nukes. Russia currently spans eleven (11)
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The Russian economy will ‘die by winter’ because of the military mobilization(fortune.com)
4 points by gvb 4y ago|5 comments
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/ydsYA
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by gvb 4y ago
That was Friday. NASA decided today (Monday) to roll back Artemis I. https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/09/26/nasa-to-roll-artem...
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by gvb 4y ago
If only enough people believe, it will be brought to life! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkerbell_effect

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