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Honey, I Insider-Traded Your Merger(bloomberg.com)
3 points by ioblomov 3y ago|1 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Guessing longer green lights or maybe limited legal turns? Latter wouldn’t make as much sense though since the north-south avenues are already far fewer in number already.
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Students Aren't the Obstacle to Open Debate at Harvard(wsj.com)
2 points by ioblomov 3y ago|0 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
I’d have to agree. Almost by definition, social organisms can’t escape obsessing over hierarchy. Whether on the African savanna or the corporate cube farm, the most we can hope for are flatter org charts.
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Bill Ackman's Stocks Went Up(bloomberg.com)
3 points by ioblomov 3y ago|1 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Agreed. People forget that both Napoleon and Hitler lost largely because of the sacrifice of Russian lives.
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/r5y5o
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by ioblomov 3y ago
You are correct: 1985 vs 1991. My bad. I just heard about AIM at the time, whereas ARM was relatively unknown (well, at least to me ;) until the rise of mobile. Edit: It’s a bit confusing because ARM the architecture is older than ARM the c
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by ioblomov 3y ago
While AIM could be seen as a failure—PowerPC never threatened x86’s dominance—its legacy, RISC, later became ubiquitous with the shift to mobile via ARM.
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by ioblomov 3y ago
To switch contexts for a moment, let me suggest the French epigrammatist who influenced Nietzsche… https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/knowledge-of-men/th...
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/VO8iY
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/nKECk
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by ioblomov 3y ago
American Prometheus revealed the most compelling reason for using both bombs I’ve seen to date: Truman had extracted a promise from Stalin that the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan by August 15—an event that he and many of his
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/XMmoF
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/H505g
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Financial Engineering for Green Energy(bloomberg.com)
3 points by ioblomov 3y ago|0 comments
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Potty-mouthed parrots teaching other birds to swear(nypost.com)
2 points by ioblomov 3y ago|0 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/VuHlQ
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/0VmUK
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/oVXF8
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Even Rats Are Taking Selfies Now (and Enjoying It)(nytimes.com)
2 points by ioblomov 3y ago|0 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Think some context here would help. Karl Popper established the limits of “truth” as much as Gödel and his incompleteness theorems did… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability TL;DR: If a theory isn’t falsifia
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Here, here. We take it for granted now, but even such things as HBO’s white-noise intro, the echoes of creation, is a cultural artifact of their tenacious attention to detail.
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Same experience here, but my problem with the email version is that the footnotes aren’t back-linked, which drives me nuts! Oversight or monetization model, who knows?
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by ioblomov 3y ago
https://archive.ph/CnXJ2
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Shareholders Are People, Too(bloomberg.com)
13 points by ioblomov 3y ago|10 comments
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Thought you were ad-libbing Wang here—till I followed the link! Surprised the journalist omitted this. Gallows humor or not, it leaves little doubt as to his state of mind. But it also makes clear how the commander and crew went out of thei
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by ioblomov 3y ago
Agreed. The role of monopoly profits in funding pure research almost can’t be overstated. Similarly, the geographic monopolies of newspapers (before the Internet) funded quality journalism.
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by ioblomov 3y ago
The whole complex (immortalized as Lumon HQ in Severance ) is landmarked so presumably it can’t be messed with too much. Even apart from the historical significance, it’s a masterpiece of mid-century design. Its architect, Eero Saarinen, a
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by ioblomov 3y ago
While I’m not saying Shannon never walked the halls of Murray Hill, his publishing A Mathematical Theory of Communication in 1948 meant that he was working at the lab’s previous location in the West Village… https://en.wikipedi

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