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And while initially you fear that you may have lost something valuable, you also immediately feel like a great burden has been lifted...

They did raise $3B recently. I guess that buys a few different teams working in a few different directions.

At the risk of asking a really dumb question: Does this only work on PTFE or other flourine-compound surfaces?

To be fair, good noise cancelling headphones nowadays have "transparent" or "ambient aware" modes that actually electronically pipe the outside noise in. (Whether the cyclists in question are actually using that feature, who knows?)

I always assumed their free open weight models were either a prestige thing or else part of a poorly executed commoditize-your-complements strategy.

If dollars were being repatriated, but as investment into financial instruments and real estate instead of purchases of goods and services, then that would not affect the trade deficit, right?

Fracking. Before fracking people were worried about "peak oil", and being dependent on unfriendly governments for our basic energy needs. Then with fracking we realized we are actually sitting on huge available oil reserves, and peak oil quickly became a quaint outdated concept.

Did you need licensing / training to take on electrical work? Do you market yourself as an electrician or more just a handyman that does minor electric jobs?

It would have been pretty silly for Harris to campaign on a Hope and Change™ platform, since that would imply she is doing a very poor job as incumbent.

> From 2014 to 2020, migrants from outside Mexico and Central America — known as “extra-continentals” — accounted for 19 percent of immigration court cases.

> In the last four years, those “extra-continentals” have risen to 53 percent of all court cases. They have arrived from countries such as India, China, Colombia and Mauritania.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/interactive/2024/...

The key difference here is whether your investment remains at risk. As long as the value of your investment is at risk, then the investment is considered unrealized.

Once you cash in your chips (sell) then the investment becomes realized.

Someone getting a loan against their stock portfolio is still at risk of loss of value of their holdings, therefore the investment gains remain unrealized.

So does this mean that every sale of any building can take at least two months?

Only $800,000? Hahaha I wish it were so affordable!

It depends on what you think YouTube's product is. Are they a service that streams videos and recommendations to consumers, or a service that streams eyeballs and tracking data to advertisers? The first one might get by with HTML5, but the second one definitely requires some JS.

How is it different? Squandering typically means spending, which means the money is re-entering the economy, typically to people at lower rungs of the wealth ladder, and is not much different than other forms of redistribution.

Unless you mean the squandered billions was through literal setting piles of money ablaze or losing it all in a poker game to bigger billionaires, it seems if redistribution was the goal then squandering should be encouraged.

Which brand / model? Please name and shame.

> Eliminate the need to manage and inject API tokens into containers and servers and instead authorize containers and servers to perform those operations.

What does this look like in practice? Can someone provide example scenarios that this is describing?

What do you mean by M's and Z's?

Can I ask, in places where showering that often is the norm, does one change into a new set of clean clothes each time? And does this basically triple the laundry chore burden?

Of course, if you do warehouse products, and then try to take advantage of a squeeze, then you may get accused of price gouging.

I understand deterrence. I am commenting on the doublespeak. "Holding a target at risk" here exactly means wielding a credible way to destroy said target.

I would argue that replacing the phrase:

> ...weapon designed to hold high-value targets at risk in contested environments from standoff distances

with:

> ...weapon designed to destroy high-value targets in contested environments from standoff distances

leaves the meaning of the quote and overall press release completely unchanged.

I love the phrasing used in this press release.

> hypersonic weapon designed to hold high-value targets at risk

We don't destroy targets anymore. We hold our targets at risk.

In the US they are common at hardware stores. They are generally referred to as "star drive" screws and will cost more than standard phillips.

This is so strange. If Affirm is the creditor why does he not ask Affirm to initiate a chargeback against the merchant? Is this one way Affirm can compete against credit cards, that they do not need to handle this kind of situation?

Golden Gate Park? Only if you have something against intact car windows.

Every infectious disease spreads exponentially, but not all of them turn into pandemics.

> ...and one after she left the company

This honestly sounds pretty fishy-- like they wanted to goose their diversity stats for free while not actually changing any part of their org chart.

> I've never understood why so many programmers and sysadmins feel the need to go straight to the Mac without considering any other option.

One reason is availability. Chances are, the PC laptop you took such pains to spec out are not nearly as available in case you need one on short notice. If I dropped my Macbook in the ocean this morning, I can walk into an Apple store and have a reasonable replacement by afternoon. Unless your PC specs are ok with random consumer/gaming laptops from Best Buy, you are likely looking at several days minimum wait, probably a lot more if they happen to be at the point in the product cycle where last year's model is in low stock and next year's hasn't come in yet.

You missed a third way which I think is actually most likely, given recent monetary stimulus policies:

3. You invest $500 in each student using prerecorded video classes and assignments graded by unpaid 'mentors', take on far more students, then structure groups of ISAs together into ISA-backed bonds, which you then sell to pension funds and other institutional investors for 15% off par value, or $25.5k each.

Not only do you get paid up front, but whether or not the ISAs eventually get paid back is no longer your problem. Also now instead of recruiting and vetting 200 teachers to teach your 2000 students, you recruit 10 teachers and a couple experienced sell-side traders and analysts.

I personally prefer the cars I buy to be in a finished state.

It pains me to even wonder what sort of "refreshed" UX paradigms each software update might decide to introduce.