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by jordanb 3mo ago
Professional Wall Street analysis is incredibly bullish: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/wall-street-is-bul...
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Years ago Chicago started putting concrete pads on the road at bus stops because the busses stopping in the exact same spot repeatedly was carving ruts into the asphalt.
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The issue was actually the door plug scandal. It showed that Boeing's QC was compromised in their factory and they were not able to properly certify that the aircraft were being built as designed . As an aside this a long talked-about
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If Nastaq hadn't agreed SpaceX would have listed on the NYSE instead.
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"SpaceX stock is expected to be listed on the Nasdaq. To secure such a high-profile listing , While listing requirements remain unchanged, Nasdaq recently amended its index-inclusion rules to accommodate companies like SpaceX when t
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Having the stock traded on their board is good for them. They also maintain an index. Elon made inclusion in the index a prerequisite for trading the stock on the board.
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Well this is not how Nastaq's index worked until Elon twisted their arm. I would assume Nastaq had good reasons for the old rules.
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"Get rid of jobs" was a pitch to investors. They needed a new trillion dollar idea. For it to be worth a trillion dollars it has to take a trillion dollars from somewhere. They looked at the economy and decided the only place it c
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This is it. The silicon valley tech industry went from being a consumer products industry to being an advertising industry. Consumer products companies see the person buying their stuff as the customer. Advertising companies see them as the
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Moreover what would a bailout even look like? The banks got loan guarantees from the government essentially. But like what happens if the government guarantees open ai's loans if the company is structurally unprofitable? Does the gover
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Steel is used for compressive applications all the time, not only slender column.
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Main contaminate in iron ore is oxygen. The refining process is mostly removing stuff yes. "Steel" is defined as carbon content between .02% and 2%. If the metal has less than that it's wrought iron. If it had more than that
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And the satellite internet business has been a dog since forever. Even starlink only makes sense if you ignore the absolutely immense capital investment in it. And they're probably hiding losses in the launch division considering it&#x
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Crews on those ships are spending nearly all their time maintaining them. Many flag and port states already allow One Man Bridge Operation (OMBO) in many circumstances. This means there's basically on person on the bridge, and maybe on
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> where does the rest of the valuation come from? AI data centers in space, of course!
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This was always the sour economics of satellite internet. Satellite internet works for a low density of customers spread evenly across the globe. But customers are not spread evenly they mostly live in megalopolist regions that can be serve
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Another possibility is that people are afraid to speak up when the threat is termination "Stroustrup points out that some senior developers are starting to retire because they're tired of constantly validating unpredictable AI cod
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Well most experienced developers I know hate it and agree it's taken all pleasure out of the work. We've spent our careers designing and building high quality software systems. But now we're told our job is to use the plagiar
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I remember working with people like this before AI and it was annoying but they struggled with productivity because they didn't understand what they were working on enough to produce good code efficiently, so the problem usually took c
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They maintained the 2 decades dominance by either knifing the baby (vine) or buying (Instagram, whatsapp) every upstart. The moment they couldn't do either they got their clock cleaned (tiktok)
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Zuck became one of the richest and most powerful people in the world by saying "what if Myspace but we make it elite and exclusive and no custom html"
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Been like this since the GFC: the rich have a government funded undo button they can press whoever they need to.
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And he can't be fired by shareholders.
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An IPO trading under its offer price after less than a month and before most lockups expire is never a good thing. This is especially true for an IPO that only floated 4% of it's stock.
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This seems like a good way to encourage ticks to develop a permethrin resistance because the cotton will stay in the rodents nest and gradually be reduced in concentration. Ive been treating my car, hiking clothing and gear with permethrin
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One good example: Facebook was ignoring Brazilian law. An employee in brazil was arrested and charged with contempt. He spent a while in jail. Zuck started posting about the guy being a martyr for free expression while the lawyers trying to
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> our common expectation I think you're going too far with this. Most people understand scientific theories to be an approximation. F=ma is approximately true, in the sense that it's only accurate within the newtonian regime a
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This is called "Fuckery:" I tell you a lie. You know it's a lie. I know you know it's a lie. But you have to pretend that you believe it because of the power I have over you. The Fuckery is a demonstration of that power.
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"Corporate Personhood" allows the corporate entity to be a responsibility sink for the owners. They alternative is that people can sue the owners/officers directly for the "actions" of the corporation.
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Funny I used to work in an org with Okta. Having your own auth workflow was instant fail with the well architected framework committee. Using Okta was instant pass. I don't necessarily disagree with that policy but given that Okta was

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