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by qsi 4y ago
I remember playing that a lot! Unfortunately it bombs with a Type 10 error.
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by qsi 4y ago
This does bring back memories, especially Think Reference! This was an application that came with Think C and contained a full reference to all of the System APIs. It was Inside Macintosh, with all documentation a simple click away. And it
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by qsi 4y ago
There have definitely been signs of serious disquiet amongst the western business community; earlier this month the European Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai sent an open letter saying in the usual diplomatese "this can't go on, it
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by qsi 4y ago
Looks very interesting... Are they selling this?
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by qsi 4y ago
In my case it's been from sites that got hacked or were discontinued. I don't investigate every single item of spam to see where it's addressed to, but some of the major data breaches like LinkedIn and Dropbox feature promine
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by qsi 4y ago
This has happened to me too, though not at Sixt. "Do you work for our company?"
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by qsi 4y ago
Without clever innovations in notation, a lot of math (and physics) would be utterly intractable. For instance, without Einstein's notation hack [1], using and manipulating tensors is extremely painful. Arguably, General Relativity wou
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by qsi 4y ago
> In short, Twitter is not keeping up with the broader economy at Musk's price. You're telling the investment banks, mutual funds, and most-senior vested employees that their company has the same worth as a low-risk government
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by qsi 4y ago
Oh, I see. In that case the stock is likely to decline from current levels and you should short it. (Not Investment Advice!)
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by qsi 4y ago
Perhaps "free speech absolutism" isn't quite the right framing here, but more "First Amendment absolutism," with all the known bounds and checks (defamation, libel, incitement to violence). It does give a US-centric
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by qsi 4y ago
He owns about 70 million shares. Before he announced his stake, the stock had a daily trading volume of about 20 million. I agree it's not super slow, but also not super fast. Probably a reasonable speed given the volume.
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by qsi 4y ago
Why is the IPO price the relevant metric? In fact, I would argue that exactly because it's been such a poor investment since the IPO, the fact that he's willing to offer a premium over recent market prices is a positive. Then agai
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by qsi 4y ago
IIRC the regulations are such that if you make a takeover offer, you can't do that? Not sure though, my work is only M&A-adjacent, so I'm not an expert.
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by qsi 4y ago
He'll have to do it the same way he bought his current stake: slowly, over weeks and months, a little bit every day. A totally standard thing to ask your investment bank to do.
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by qsi 4y ago
Because he filed the takeover offer with the SEC (the regulator) today. This is the way it should be done.
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by qsi 4y ago
That's not quite how it works if you make a formal takeover offer. It's basically telling existing shareholders that he'll buy their stock at $54. If enough of them don't want to sell (depending on how it's structur
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by qsi 4y ago
Once he's taken it private, supposing he succeeds, you can't short the stock anymore as there won't be shares to borrow (or buy, or sell).
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by qsi 4y ago
And specifically without the board's consent, or in active opposition to the board.
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by qsi 5y ago
For as long as I've been in finance (measured in decades now, scarily enough) somebody's been trying to displace Bloomberg. They haven't succeeded.
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by qsi 5y ago
The helpdesk explicitly doesn't support API questions, only for the Excel functions. I phrase my API questions to match in Excel BDP terms, that usually works. Data questions can indeed be difficult to get answered.
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by qsi 5y ago
I'll just pile on here. The functionality of the Terminal is seemingly infinite and goes way beyond market data. Although it is obviously very good at market data. You pull up a bond, or future, or stock, or index, type FLDS and see an
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by qsi 5y ago
Minor pedantic point: prices (or specifically, the consumer price index) rose 7.5%, not inflation. It IS 7.5% YoY and did not rise 7.5%. (Sorry, switching off Man-Shouts-At-Cloud Mode). Inflationary expectations are definitely getting reanc
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by qsi 5y ago
Neither did I using Brave.
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Secret Documents Show Which Message Apps Are the Most FBI-Proof(reason.com)
11 points by qsi 5y ago|1 comments
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by qsi 5y ago
I agree it reflects poorly on the organization, but the previous story on HN [1] mentioned that the malicious insider had scared the CEO into giving access by manufacturing some sort of security incident. Had this not happened, he would not
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by qsi 5y ago
More details, but not much more news yet: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/dbs-posb-down-not-... From that article: >DBS Singapore country head Shee Tse Koon said the bank identified a problem with its acce
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by qsi 5y ago
A few months from now the headline will be that MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) slaps DBS with a hefty fine.
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by qsi 5y ago
As an addendum to my previous reply on the DBS's abysmal UX, I will echo the point made here that once you get to talk to someone, it's generally fine. I've had some great service when I could get through to a human, but they
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by qsi 5y ago
For context: DBS is Singapore's biggest bank, and this outage affects most (all?) electronic banking services made through the app or website, including the popular PayNow transfers (usually small transactions made by scanning a QR cod
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by qsi 5y ago
Alien 8 was great! I should try to dust off my MSX emulator...

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