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If there are million organizations + persons willing to pay, that's roughly $250 million in revenue. If he invents 'god tier' for businesses and rich people that costs $2500 per year and gets 100k to subscribe, he collects another $250M and has half billion in revenue.

This sounds great. If we can leave 99% behind and get all substantive people, like John Carlos Baez, into Mastodon, its the best possible world.

People think that all partitions are between people with different opinions, but that's not always the case. Sometimes people with substance from every corner flock into the same arena. For a little time everything is good, then eternal September once again.

The German law recognizes a concept called "streitbare Demokratie" (self-defence of Democracy) that puts restrictions to undemocratic movements. It's a legal solution to Popper's paradox of tolerance.

Freedom of speech in liberal democracies can be summarized as follows:

1. There is general freedom of speech and expression.

2. Any exception must be codified in the law.

1. Multiple share classes. Meta (or Alphabet) would be blocked from joining SP500 with current rules.

2. Horrible corporate governance. Leadership without accountability. Mr. Zuck can't be ousted. Meta is his personal toy.

3. Meta business is peaking. Growth by acquisitions is blocked by new regulatory environment.

>The End of History was never linked to a specifically American model of social or political organization. Following Alexandre Kojève, the Russian-French philosopher who inspired my original argument, I believe that the European Union more accurately reflects what the world will look like at the end of history than the contemporary United States. The EU's attempt to transcend sovereignty and traditional power politics by establishing a transnational rule of law is much more in line with a "post-historical" world than the Americans' continuing belief in God, national sovereignty, and their military

His main argument is that the evolution is over and there will be no better system than some type of liberal democracy. There can be devolution to worse, but there are no alternatives that work better. Even if there are reversions to totalitarianism, the long term trend is towards liberal democracy.

Everybody should read "Thinking the Way Animals Do: Unique insights from a person with a singular understanding." https://web.archive.org/web/20210417083222/https://www.grand...

I think she is right.

Everybody should study as much math as possible in school, more than today. But nobody should study math abstractly just to pass exams. They should study more but only at the rate they understand, in a way that they understand.

If everyone would study math 5h/week for 9 years with speed they understand and grok what they learn, some would learn to master only 50% of the math curriculum. Some would master 200%, some even more. But even those who would master only 50% would have better math skills than those who pass all exams but don't undestand.

The "End of History" here means that there are no more any serious ideological competitors against liberal democracy. Religious fundamentalism, Chinese and Russian systems and their reactions so far prove it. China and Russian are reacting and defending against liberalism, they are not providing anything new, they are not doing anything better. No solutions, only reactionary rejection and nihilistic decay.

As long as no nother political structure can provide citizens with the levels of wealth and personal liberties that a liberal democracy can, this is the end of history.

Just like drug cartels know how to collect and store anonymous money but find it very hard to use it. Every time you try to buy something expensive or normal financial assets, you have to explain where the money is from or you may lose it.

Try to buy a house with anonymous crypto and find out.

FAST (five-hundred-meter aperture telescope) already exists and combining smaller ones is also an option.

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>How the big Chinese manufacturing hubs like Shenzhen work.

99.9% of Shenzhen is relatively low value added on top of core technologies. They bring high value added tooling from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, buy chips from Taiwan and assemble them into products.

Thresholds:

• Logic chips with non-planar transistor architectures (I.e., FinFET or GAAFET) of 16nm or 14nm, or below;

• DRAM memory chips of 18nm half-pitch or less;

• NAND flash memory chips with 128 layers or more.

A one-year Temporary General License softens the blow for the US allies. Everything that includes the US made tools and software for design and manufacturing, and machinery is cut out, so is any person with US citizenship, green card or who lives within the US.

A one-year Temporary General License softens the blow for foreign companies but just delays the catastrophe for Chinese chip manufacturing. Besides removing US citizens, green card holders, and people living in the US from working or serving Chinese chipmakers, exports are restricted. Everything that includes the US made tools and software for design and manufacturing, and machinery is cut out.

Thresholds:

• Logic chips with non-planar transistor architectures (I.e., FinFET or GAAFET) of 16nm or 14nm, or below;

• DRAM memory chips of 18nm half-pitch or less;

• NAND flash memory chips with 128 layers or more.

It's not just terrible year, it's terrible fund made to ride boom and generate management fees.

>It's a good thing for science

Maybe, but we should treat them like arXiv.org type e-Print archive. People are posting them to HN and thinking that because it's Nature.com site it's solid science.

>Manuscripts are not assessed based on their perceived importance, significance or impact https://www.nature.com/srep/guide-to-referees#criteria

(he had only one peer anonymous reviewed paper and it had an error)

If you do medicine for profit and are allowed to advertise and market, doing more is always better.

>What Musk apparently wants is to pause the trial while they can work this all out: He offered to “proceed to closing of the transaction,” but only “provided that the Delaware Chancery Court enter an immediate stay of the action ... and adjourn the trial.” What Twitter wants is sort of the opposite, to keep the pressure of a trial on Musk until he shows up with the money. This feels like a solvable problem — basically, you write some sort of agreement that says like “we’re going to work together to get the closing done this week, but if we don’t we’re gonna have an extra-super-bad trial,” and you get Chancellor McCormick to bless it — but they have to work together to solve it. They have to negotiate and draft an Agreement to Stick to the Agreement. If you’re writing that agreement, you have some trust issues.

Why leave any room for Musk to delay or change his mind. Fool me once ...

Twitter has no reason to ask for a stay until the deal is closed. It's better to just keep pushing and motivate Musk to close asap.

Brilliant man who worked in aviation and aerospace and did many things. Eccentric person with serious mental issues.

$20 billion cash from Musk, $6.25 billion in personal bank loans to Musk (he is hooking his Tesla stocks)

Rest is senior secured bank loans and subordinated debt loaned against Twitter stock. The cost of the debt is about $1 billion per year if I remember correctly.

Someone like Warren Buffet can make a one phone call and the deal gets closed in few days because his word can be trusted.

If you compare the purchase price to what Twitter likely would cost without the deal–using the price change of other social media platforms and internet ad platforms as a benchmark–it seems likely that Musk is paying ~$20 billion over the current market value.

If Musk wants to offload even more stocks, he takes huge haircut. At least 50% or more. It's likely better to wait for better times and restructure Twitter.

No matter how you look at it, this is horrible deal for Musk unless he can make Twitter shine again.