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by nocoiner 4y ago
I disagree with the last half of your comment. I (like to think?) I work for a top tier organization, and plenty of times when I have a thorny problem, I have to spend a few days just thinking about it to get my head around all aspects of i
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Nothing of what you read in this article… ever happened.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Every single headline in The New Republic used to be a delightfully clever gem, but at some point in the past two decades, that practice descended into mediocrity alongside the outlet as a whole.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I know an anecdote isn’t data, but I’m a pretty straight laced guy who’s never used an illegal drug other than pot, so no prior experience with any psychedelics (except for taking an Ambien on an empty stomach lol). I started ketamine thera
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by nocoiner 4y ago
This sounds very similar to my experience. I have persistent depression - usually pretty minor, but sometimes worse than others - and social anxiety, and recently started psychedelic therapy with ketamine (I’m still on my SSRIs, which keep
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Not to minimize the suffering of a poor country with limited state capacity to adequately address this tragedy, but this exact scenario more or less happened in Houston during Hurricane Harvey.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Yep, and lots from the Permian Basin in particular, which is of course still an extremely productive field to this day. The resurgence of continental U.S. oil production is a fascinating story and a technological marvel. There are upsides a
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I came here to say something along these lines. One statistic from that book I’ve always loved is that the Allies burned seven billion barrels of oil during WWII - and six billion of them were pumped from the United States.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I’ve had good luck on that with Diamond Age, but I feel the need to couple that with a strident warning about how incredibly unsatisfying the ending is (which to me is a recurring thing with his books). I disliked Fall intensely. I either d
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by nocoiner 4y ago
This is the only sensible answer in this thread.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Huh, didn’t know this was a thing. You’re pretty much describing me exactly. My hearing is basically normal but parties, or even dinners with more than, say, four people, are hell for me to keep up with. If I focus on a single person, I can
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I have a feeling the poll is premised on the fairly arcane distinctions between the various legal instruments (deed, mortgage, promissory note, etc.) that collectively comprise a residential real estate loan.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
It’s interesting to me that caption to the 1956 newspaper picture in the first linked article identifies someone from the NSA. I thought the mere existence of that agency was basically classified information well into the ‘70s.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Best part is that if Musk loses and the court enforces specific performance, he just bought a company that just paid for all those lawyers to fight him out of the company treasury!
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by nocoiner 4y ago
My heart bleeds for him. He’s achieved tremendous success in a remarkably successfully economy based on dynamism and the rule of law, and now he’s asked to do his part, under oath, to maintain that system. Doesn’t he know that part is for c
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by nocoiner 4y ago
He signed a binding acquisition agreement in a $44 billion dollar deal without doing any due diligence. Bigger deals have been struck on similar timeframes, but rarely has the purchaser evidenced such obvious buyer’s remorse so quickly af
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Nah. There was a period about 20 years ago where there was pervasive public Wi-Fi that provided full coverage of virtually every sufficiently dense urban area. Then people started locked down their hotspots, and within 2-3 years that was th
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by nocoiner 4y ago
The Twitter board agreed to sell the company, for cash, for $44 billion. Without overcomplicating things too much, it’s not actually the case that a Delaware corporation must maximize the value to the shareholders in every circumstance … ex
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by nocoiner 4y ago
“And get your shinebox while you’re at it.”
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by nocoiner 4y ago
It might turn out to be a good deal for the shareholders, but good lord, I would not want to be one of the Twitter board members who agrees to a settlement offer. This guy owes your shareholders $44 billion! And you’re going to take less th
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Why would you think the WSJ editorial writers are likely to be correct in their analysis? I was frankly shocked that a law professor specializing in securities regulation had a hand in it. The size of the break fee is well within market for
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Interesting that you mentioned American Airlines going through bankruptcy - that one was unusual in that the stockholders actually came out of that doing quite well. In nearly every bankruptcy, the equity gets wiped out (that’s why the firm
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Lying for Money was excellent and extremely accessible. Highly recommend that one.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Deal certainty is pretty much the key issue in public company acquisition agreements. The conditions are usually limited to things like receipt of required regulatory approvals (all but one of which has been obtained here), the shareholder
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Here’s an excerpt from Twitter’s 2014 annual report. I think they’ve been pretty clear for quite a while that there is subjectivity and judgment that goes into their estimates of monetized users that are bots. “The numbers of active users a
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by nocoiner 4y ago
He’s really not. This case will be tried in the most efficient corporate law court in the country. They make a particular effort to render speedy decisions.
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by nocoiner 4y ago
I assume you’re being tongue in cheek (especially given Musk being constitutionally unable to run for president), but the president of the United States doesn’t appoint judges to the Delaware Court of Chancery. And that court is amazingly e
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Not too difficult to image at all - EM draws upon the contractually committed financing he presented to the Twitter board (the bulk of which is coming out of his own fortune) and does what he agreed to do: but Twitter for $44 billion. Just
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by nocoiner 4y ago
EM already HAS committed financing. Now, he can probably blow up the commitment from his banks by continuing to engage in egregiously bad faith behavior, but under the merger agreement and the financing commitment papers, he’s required to d
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by nocoiner 4y ago
Delaware may actually be relatively quick to rule on this. It’s a pretty straightforward breach of contract case, and one side has a much, much stronger position than the other. Where it’ll get really interesting is if the court orders spec

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