As a thought experiment, could a witness protection program (i.e. an arm of the government) issue a new/fake SSN? Yes.
Could they change your retina? Maybe some surgery exists to do this, but it sounds risky/complicated!
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Could they change your retina? Maybe some surgery exists to do this, but it sounds risky/complicated!
A Virginia class submarine in 2023 costs $4.3 billion (that's for the whole submarine), it has a 210MW S9G reactor.
The Vogtle Unit 3 was $17 billion over budget, for a $30 billion total budget, for 1,100 MW.
$204MM / MW for the US Navy vs $273MM / MW for Georgia Power et. al.
This project makes nuclear submarines look like a bargain!
Sources:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia-class_submarine
* https://apnews.com/article/georgia-power-co-southern-climate...
Of interest to the HN crowd are probably these posts:
- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-21-the-three-fs-...
- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-07-31-cracking-the-...
- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2021-07-12-prioritizing-...
- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-28-servers-in-se...
- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2021-01-13-facts-will-no...
2. Err, I can't see any big banks or other entities touching COIN, and the CRIMINAL proceedings that it will likely be embroiled in with a 10-ft pole!
3. Maybe BTC will come to 'dominate' the 'crypto' space, but that space will be a smaller and smaller part of the US (and global) economy. Although it never got very big to start with. BTC is used for approximately 0.0% of US transactions right now (rounded to nearest decimal place).
This logic seems like wishful thinking that people can't get rekt by both the SEC and CFTC, they can.
> A NASA history of the Hubble,[24] in discussing the reasons for switching from a 3-meter main mirror to a 2.4-meter (94 in) design, states: "In addition, changing to a 2.4-meter mirror would lessen fabrication costs by using manufacturing technologies developed for military spy satellites".
This, to me, says that KH-11 came first...
Had Gatsby found a scalable business model?
Maybe this is more of a saving-face/acquihire for Gatsby. Granted, there is potentially some strategic benefit for Netlify, but not enough to justify a large acquisition price (the price is not mentioned in the press-release).
I think it was this one (though there might have been another one): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asml-the-obscure-power...
Back in the day they managed to avoid 'layoffs' by transferring thousands of people from Fire Phone -> Alexa. They somehow avoided layoffs from shutting down Prime Air (drones, not 767s), even though that had a lot of employees.
They're pretty good at getting people to leave without doing 'layoffs'.
Heck, if you believe that they've always had 5-10% 'unregretted attrition' targets, which I do, and apply it to the whole company, that's 50-100k employees per year!
Various estimates size the corporate travel market at hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
$3000 isn't that expensive compared to a business class plane ticket, and hotel.
Apple has a history of convincing people to pay lots of money for things (the $1000 iPhone wasn't that long ago!)
But also, people voluntarily quitting is even better for Amazon.. no severance.
Imagine if somebody stole a piece of art worth hundreds of millions of dollars...
Serious answer: People will confirm or not in the comments, this post seems pretty reasonable, if a little trigger happy. It could just be a random launch failure.
But,
a) The banks may well be able to sell these bonds, just with a higher yield. b) Maybe there are some clients out there with lotsa cash (Buffet, Bezos, Gates) who would love to have Elon owe them tens of billions of dollars at 10% yield.
If the whole thing goes tits up, then the bondholders own Twitter, not Elon.
But in this case I don't think Musk is playing checkers, when everybody else is playing chess.. I think he was just doin drugs, and tweetin twetes.
Why does it even need to be forked? The whole point of using SQLite as a foundation for distributed, edge, or other stuff is that it's a solid foundation that can be trusted to not change too much.
Why the need to open SQLite to contributions? Build your fancy distributed, or edge database on top of SQLite and you won't need to modify SQLite at all.
E.g. a nefarious actor could harm a competitor by overwhelming them with fake applicants that it takes time to sift through.
Wait until you hear about the large cloud provider running RHEL5... (I worked at said provider).
This is true, but misses one detail...
Snowflake runs in the cloud so every dollar of Snowflake revenue is roughly $0.40^1 of Amazon/Google/Microsoft revenue anyway.
^1: Snowflakes gross margin is in the range of 50-60% https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SNOW/snowflake/gro...
A VPC isn't useful without EC2 instances in it. AWS Organizations allows you to create more accounts, with more instances, databases etc in them!