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by nocoiner 4y ago
That is an amazing story.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Yeah. Maybe I’m just soft-hearted, but I really don’t think the benefit of this can be overstated. By dint of its location, configuration and instances of cultural cachet, this was a particularly unique and inspiring facility. I was pretty
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by nocoiner 4y ago
West Virginia already has Green Bank, no?
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Yup. Gawker was victim of a targeted assassination. Sure, their editor gave a truly disastrous deposition which probably directly caused them to lose that particular case more than any other single factor, but if it hadn’t been that case, i
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Sure, but bias is going to be a factor with any system of evaluation. It happens with human moderators, it happens with automated systems, it happens in corporate performance reviews and it happens among 12 of a defendant’s peers convened f
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by nocoiner 4y ago
As Matt Levine says, “everything is securities fraud,” and this is probably the area of greatest exposure for a company with a substantial degree of departure between their stated practices and their actual practices. It’s not likely to be
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I guess I’ve forgotten how to argue online, because obviously I’m not making my meaning clear. Agree to disagree and/or just to drop it? Sorry about what happened in your country. I think democracy is pretty great and regret that the t
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by nocoiner 4y ago
You were so eager to write your rejoinders that you literally could not finish reading the final two sentences of my post? I think I fairly clearly anticipated and addressed most of your points in my post. If you want to debate the wisdom o
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Vanilla Sky, except with the happy ending. We, beginning.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
So SpaceX cannot continue to maintain the zero-marginal-cost service for the terminals they sold to Ukraine (and funded by USG) at 5x retail? And now they’re attempting to extort the USG (who, by the way, is also their primary customer)? I’
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I feel like very little of this comment makes sense? So airlines have debt? What enterprise doesn’t? And their cash flow is provided by customers using credit cards? Again, just like every consumer facing business. What are the airlines sup
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I felt like I wasted time reading this. It was someone with a terrific network talking about how amazing he is (yet with limited substantiation how that translated to success), with shitty DALL-E artwork interspersed between paragraphs. Yaw
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by nocoiner 4y ago
It doesn’t seem shocking or even the least bit surprising that you didn’t feel safe in New York at the all-time absolute peak of crime, when the murder rate was 6x what it is now, but, as a foreigner, you felt physically secure in the capit
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by nocoiner 4y ago
There’s a Houston suburb that sank due to subsistence and had to be abandoned several decades ago. As I understand it, that was a big wake-up call, and things here have improved quite a bit since then. Though not everywhere, apparently. ht
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Well stated. I was a little — OK, very — surprised to read the tone of this filing. You don’t get to pretend to terminate a binding acquisition on a pretext, destroy evidence and skip depositions and then act like you’re the aggrieved party
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by nocoiner 4y ago
You don’t purport to terminate a merger agreement (three times, no less!) if you are merely trying to re-cut the price. Even if this had been a negotiating ploy, Musk (through his extreme bad faith, including apparent destruction of evidenc
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by nocoiner 4y ago
The commitment is pretty solid (though, of course, so is Musk’s, and he’s spent the last six months trying to wriggle out of it). Plus, Morgan Stanley has franchise and reputational risk to consider - if they try to walk on the debt, the ne
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by nocoiner 4y ago
100%. If we’ve learned no other lessons from the last few years, one really should be how stunningly effective the Russians can be in getting their framing/worldview in front of powerful-yet-pliable Western figures.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
It would be truly amazing. All Musk had to do to minimize his exposure was to do exactly what he was doing - loudly and repeatedly proclaiming “won’t someone rid me of this troublesome merger agreement!” and seeing what crawls out of the wo
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Donating terminals at a claimed value of 5x retail is suspiciously close to the amount that would neutralize out of pocket costs after taxing into account the corresponding tax deduction, and enabling data services on said terminals is very
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Using the government’s numbers, that’s $1500 per terminal. Using the space reporter’s numbers for the SpaceX “donation,” that’s about $2700 per terminal. I thought the retail price of a starlink terminal was in the $500-600 range?
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Selling the Twitter debt is the banks’ problem. They’ve already committed to fund debt financing off their own balance sheets (absent certain circumstances that don’t exist here). It’s not a happy day for the banks, and they may yet try to
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by nocoiner 4y ago
The commitment papers are publicly filed. True, Musk’s equity syndication terms aren’t public, but that’s basically irrelevant - Musk personally is on the hook for 100% of the required equity to the extent any of his coinvestors don’t show
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by nocoiner 4y ago
This is… not how your negotiate on price. What you call his “bid” was in fact his binding definitive agreement to acquire the company at an agreed upon price. Yeah, plenty of deals get re-traded between signing and closing and purchase pric
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Oh man, this comment dredged up some deep memories for me. When I first got on the internet in the mid-90s (‘94 maybe?), one of the first web pages I remember finding was the “Peeping Tom Homepage” - a list of webcams available at the time
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I believe a predecessor to that meme would date back at least to the early ‘90s, as demonstrated by the plot point in Wayne’s World 2 in which Olivia d’Abo’s character was approvingly identified for holding a book on Unix network programmin
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by nocoiner 4y ago
God, what a blast from the past. Haven’t thought about the Tandy Center subway in a long, long time. Thanks for the post.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
> Expect to see one major EU country leave NATO and the EU this winter. I’d be interested in taking the other side of this wager, quite possibly at even money odds depending on nailing down specifics. Would you care to discuss definition
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I’ve noticed the same thing as well. I knew this was coming, but was nonetheless a bit gutted when I saw the headline - I just don’t think Weather is a perfect replacement (yet?) for Dark Sky.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I don’t think that’s the way insurance companies look at it - as I recall, I think they actually waive the deductible in the event of a chute deployment to encourage use of the system. Paying for an airframe is a lot cheaper than the inevit

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