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by hga 10y ago
If the interest rate of 6.5% is high, which as far as I can tell is the case, i.e. it appears to be in the lower range of "junk" bonds, and they're unmarketable, and (here it gets iffy due to the acquisition) Musk and compa
602.
by hga 10y ago
untransferable bonds There's such a thing??? Sure enough, found with Google, and evidently they've been doing this for a couple of years: https://solarbonds.solarcity.com/customer-agreement/ The Solar Bond
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by hga 10y ago
Except Osborne admitted in a Wall Street Journal article that he made up that excuse for their failure. It's been so long I can't remember the details of the real reason, but it was the general sort of thing that companies like
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by hga 10y ago
There's always more willing serfs where they came from, especially after the NSF started overfilling the pipeline in the mid-late '80s insisting there was a terrible shortage of them. Of course, they just wanted to spend less m
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by hga 10y ago
so why not consider it before dismissing it out of hand The multiple upvotes I've received for these postings suggest that, yes, I could well be justified dismissing your latest comment out of hand. And I probably ought to withdraw m
606.
by hga 10y ago
Exactly, we are the apex predator, even if deer are the most deadly animal in the US (from car crashes). I can't quickly find any details on the total annual harvest, but it looks like there are about 10 million of us hunting deer e
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by hga 10y ago
Oops, that was "January 2001" when I started at Lucent, by 2002 they were clearly doomed, e.g. the last project I worked on, a media gateway ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_gateway to pair with their the
608.
by hga 10y ago
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about "yield". To throw out some more numbers, the last I got for MIT, which was before a degree from it was perceived as being relatively more valuable in the Great Recession, it received 13,000 applic
609.
by hga 10y ago
Where wasn't it dicey in telecom in 2002 onward? It's been noted the dot.com bust was more of a telecom bust than anything else. I had the ... special privilege of going to work for Lucent in January when they had 106,000 emplo
610.
by hga 10y ago
Apology accepted. I'd add that "and sterile and pure enough for IM injection or IV administration" drives the costs up even higher. I use a couple of nasal sprays to keep sinus infections at bay, and they're expensive e
611.
by hga 10y ago
I don't disagree, hence my use of the word "some", and I think Chicago's combination of very cold winters plus humid summers would not be to my taste. Experience shows I can tolerate one or the other based on living in
612.
by hga 10y ago
Indeed, and my question, having lived the tail end of Route 128's boom years and then its hard and final death, is why those other places got eclipsed by SV, with no clear sign that's going to change (modulo it looking to be harde
613.
by hga 10y ago
Better than CalTech, most certainly (the school is just too small, and too science focused I would guess). But it's indeed iffy to argue that any one of Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU or MIT are the best, it really depends on what you&#x2
614.
by hga 10y ago
You know, some of us like weather that changes a lot more, also killing frosts/freezes kill a lot of nasty bugs (although I'm not aware of the Bay Area being know for that sort of problem, maybe too dry?). A quick check indicat
615.
by hga 10y ago
The simple reality is that taxpayers fund a good deal of pharmaceutical R&D And how much of the very most expensive clinical trials, and applications to the FDA? Not to mention marketing, so busy doctors actually know of their existe
616.
by hga 10y ago
California, and therefore "Silicon Valley", still enjoys the unique advantage of non-competes being unenforceable, creating a particularly liquid market in talent.
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by hga 10y ago
A lot of good stuff also came out of IBM Rochester ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rochester ), Minnesota. ADDED: They were tapped to develop what was going to be to the System/360 what it was to prior systems,
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by hga 10y ago
And insists they are nonetheless " committed to the Pixel program ".
619.
by hga 10y ago
they recover the cost of their drug development from consumers in the US Fixed it for you. End that, and you end new drug development (fortunately karma will be enforced on those advocating it, for they or some of their loved ones will al
620.
by hga 10y ago
They're enjoying the luxury of our ridiculous ... softness? Good will isn't quite it, internecine political warfare for sure. The people imprisoned there were unlawful combatants, and to among other things strongly encourage la
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by hga 10y ago
The single unique thing about California, and therefore SF/Silicon Valley/the Bay area is that by long standing public policy, non-competes are unenforceable for employees like you, making it a very liquid market for talent. Thi
622.
by hga 10y ago
That's my impression. The optics were horrible , it sounds like he had a fairly strong case, and for those of us who knew of him starting from his works like Scribe way way back when, well, we're inclined to believe his story. Al
623.
by hga 10y ago
No, not really. Only one of their companies is inherently into NFA items, and H&R and Marlin, which bought them prior to it being bought by Freedom, and Dakota and Parker (!) aren't even into those sorts of guns. And Barnes only
624.
by hga 10y ago
Hmmm, in another domain I'm familiar with, Cerberus Capital Management smushed together a number of firearms and ammo companies into the Freedom Group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Group ), and without to
625.
by hga 10y ago
Indeed, unless substantial amounts of money from a client who can pay are involved (think Brian Reid (!) who was let go from Google 9 days before their IPO because he was too old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Rei
626.
by hga 10y ago
It's now bothered me twice, 2nd time on a dynamic search page (and, BTW, after I subscribed by hitting the top level link to "Newsletter" :-). Indeed, get rid of it, your site design is so sparse it's hard (I think) to m
627.
by hga 10y ago
But did he take code, or only the ideas from that project?
628.
by hga 10y ago
And for the Wikipedia cite, I'll reply with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs which I used to find the RMS Slashdot AMA quote that confirms the fork.
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by hga 10y ago
Ah, how could I forget my finding in my email archives and posting Marvin Minsky's Universal Turing Machine in TECO at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161159 , "When I wrote the following Universal Turing Ma
630.
by hga 10y ago
I was so there that RMS and I were roommates when he started the GNU Project ^_^ (much early history omitted, we were in the same social circle...). This of course came a bit later, I started working for a UniPress subcontractor in December

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