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Basketb926··on My graduation cap runs Rust
trash doesn't disappear, everything has to go somewhere
Basketb926··on Just the Browser
Free and open-source browsers based on Chromium: Brave, Dooble, Falkon, Otter, qutebrowser, Supermium, ungoogled-chromium

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Free_an...

Basketb926··on In the Land of Living Skies: Reacquainting ourselves with the night (2022)
Great Article! Fear of the dark is real and justified. I struggle to understand how Canada's darkest spot is 5 miles from the US border in Grasslands National Park and not somewhere in the vast Northern latitudes.
Basketb926··on We've got to stop sending files to each other
No files, no ownership, all hail our cloud overlords
Basketb926··on Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items
Easy thing to do with Unwanted Stamps is Donate to Oxfam Canada. Address to mail your donation to is at this link: https://www.oxfam.ca/take-action/support-oxfam/stamp-out-pov...
Basketb926··on Longevity, by Design [pdf]
Is this an advertisement from Apple's legal team to EU regulators?
Basketb926··on How 16 Companies Are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results
https://millionshort.com/ can filter out the most common sites, take a look what the internet looks like then!
Basketb926··on MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown
Repairability 1/10
Basketb926··on China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx
That or maybe some of this other evidence about him easily findable on Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97WBHOXOSZU https://www.altus.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/619843...
Basketb926··on WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10B
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIPO "OpenIPO is a modified Dutch auction" "number of companies public including Morningstar, Interactive Brokers Group, Overstock.com, Ravenswood Winery, Clean Energy Fuels, Boston Beer Company"

WeWork is experiencing this type of auction but strangely in the media instead of in communications between actual investors

Basketb926··on The Undertakers of Silicon Valley (2018)
Probably the funds from the acquisition did not even clear the debt on the cap table, and thereby did not leave any money for equity shareholders like you
Basketb926··on Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
source?
Basketb926··on Life in the Spanish city that banned cars
San Diego airport website does give some walking details that were not known by the people you met https://www.san.org/to-from/Walking-Biking
Basketb926··on Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Is the Size of the Mexico's Entire Economy
Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund has as much capital stock as the total flow of Mexico's Entire Economy. Obviously Mexico has a heck of a lot more capital stock which is required to create such a large economic flow.
Basketb926··on Robinhood replaced “call” and “put” with “up” and “down”
According to Robinhood, "If you don’t have enough buying power to exercise your option, we’ll sell the contract in the market for you about 1 hour before it expires." https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005656423...
Basketb926··on Paypal Patent Application: Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System
Ebay was (and is until mid 2020) 13% of Paypal volume https://www.marketwatch.com/story/paypal-just-how-bad-is-the...
Basketb926··on “Prince George Washington” at the Siamese Court (2016)
Review site that focuses on Public Domain works, nice!
Basketb926··on German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition
$75-$100 million USD each