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The lead bondholder is Marble Ridge Capital - a fund that specializes in distressed asset investing.

That's not correct - creditors are usually banks for secured term debt or bondholders. The interest rates are not absurd. In this case, the bondholders are suing the private equity fund for stripping the asset. The bond in question looks like it had about a 10% interest rate

I have a friend who has no mind's eye - it wasn't until he was in his late teens that he realized that other people can imagine places/images in their heads. And was flabbergasted.

Well my one medical doctor missed an important part of a medical test. I had to point out that he had missed it.

The region most at risk of famine-driven political change is North India - if the wheat growing belt shifts far enough because of climate change there will be massive disruption.

African agricultural productivity is so low that proper technical (and institutional) investment can easily cover the expected (large) population growth in the 21st cent.

Climate change will be catastrophic if we don't decarbonize sufficiently, but it will not be apocalyptic.

The definition of a species is the interbreeding barrier. Animals who cannot produce fertile offspring are different species.

LinkedIN profiles that mention Docker

Mar 2015: 14,000

Mar 2016: 50,000

Dec 2017: 178,000

Nov 2019: 534,000

Still going up!

This is another great New Yorker story on the Indian oral storytelling tradition which goes into the oral vs. written thing a bit (paywalled - sorry)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/11/20/homer-in-india

A reminder that the members of the EU Commission are proposed by the collective ministers of all European governments, appointed by the group of all EU Heads of Govt (prime ministers/presidents) and ratified by the EU Parliament (directly elected).

It's as unelected as the US Supreme Court is - which means - technically unelected, but definitely reflective of the wishes of the electorate via the people they elect to populate it.

You mean like Robin Wright in The Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPAl5GwvdY8

If memory serves, IBM had a lot of good engineers on Linux back in the day & I think they were responsible for doing a lot of the hard perf. work on multi-CPU scheduling.

It's going to be pretty hard to defend it. It's built on porous limestone. So water's going to bubble up everywhere - not like defending NYC

No-one paid the top brackets because the tax code at that point was riddled with ways to generate tax losses that reduced liability. The tax reform really was a good thing (unlike 90% of what happened under the Reagan administration)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986#Passive...

But a hotel does cost $36,500 a year if you stay in it that much and that's closer to what a substantial percentage of pay day borrowers actually end up doing:

>> Payday loans are often thought of as “two-week” loans, which aligns with the data’s median term >> of 14 days. However, since the terms of these loans are often tied to the borrower’s pay cycle, >> which can vary by employer and source of income, the average loan length is 18.3 days.

>> And while payday loans are marketed as short-term solutions — get cash now, pay it back in two >> >> weeks — the CFPB found that over the course of 12 months, more than one-third of borrowers will take >> out between 11 and 19 payday loans. Fourteen percent of borrowers will take out 20 or more payday >> loans within this same time period.

>> It’s on these borrowers that payday lenders make the most money. According to the CFPB, 76% of >> lenders’ fees come from borrowers taking out at least 11 loans in a year.

from: https://consumerist.com/2013/04/26/the-average-payday-loan-b...

Specialized tools are specialized: just remember the limitations! - Bad with heterogeneous hardware (Cloudflare experience) - Non-throttled recovery (source replicas flooded with replication load) - No real delete/update support, and no transactions - No secondary keys - Own protocol (no MySQL protocol support) - Limited SQL support, and the joins implementation is different. If you are migrating from MySQL or Spark, you will probably have to re-write all queries with joins. - No window functions

Here are some of the details of some of the unreplicated studies (not scientifically specific - but you can always read the paper)

Replication Failures

- Disgust sensitivity predicts homophobia (no it doesn’t)

- Assimilation and contrast - the order of asking specific vs. general questions about the same domain matters (no it doesn’t)

- Priming Consumerism - being told you’re acting as a consumer reduces your trust in others (no it doesn’t)

- Moral Cleansing - people exposed to unethical things have an urge to cleanse themselves physically (no they don't)

- Priming Warmth - on warm days people have higher belief in global warming (no they don’t)

- Structure & Goal Pursuit - being exposed to structure improves goal pursuit (no it doesn't)

- Incidental Disfluency - making tasks incidentally difficult (hard to read fonts) - improves analytic performance (no it doesn’t)

Hyperpartisanship is a phenomenon we can see in societies far predating the invention of movable type, and it has had a class trigger (the Gracchi revolts in Rome), a religious trigger (Arian/Orthodox in late antiquity -Iconoclasm/Iconophile in Byzantium), a sports trigger (the Blue/Green civil riots in Constantinople) or traditionally an intra-elite trigger (Guelf/Ghibbeline or White/Black Guelf in medieval italy.) Niall Ferguson is not a rigorous historian and, like Malcolm Gladwell, should be considered an entertainer not a thinker.

Another travelogue ~ 100 years earlier. Ibn Jubayr goes from Cordoba to the Haj and on to a crumbling Baghdad (pre-mongol - interesting).

Stops in norman sicily on the way back: https://www.amazon.com/Travels-Ibn-Jubayr-J-C-Broadhurst/dp/...

sarcasm

Once there is a proper infrastructure for trusted Oracles, there will be lots of interesting applications: small group crowd funding, payment distribution from trusts,execution of wills.

By the way, don't necessarily attribute bad intentions to the founders. Many startups do a terrible job keeping track of who executed what, and it's not uncommon to find cap tables that have significant errors and omissions.

Note that even if your shares are worthless - you can take the tax writeoff, but you do need to get documentation from the company that the common stock had no value so you have something to show the IRS if you're audited.

I wrote a whole blog post with source data on the history of Gartner's tech predictions in its Hype Cycle.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-lessons-from-20-years-hype-...

This is a persistent and incorrect story. The proprietary esx kernel takes over from the initial linux boot. The esx kernel schedules running VMs, not the linux kernel.

Actually, you don't get those things for free on a native platform either. What we did in Fastbook has a lot of similarities to what the Facebook team had to build for themselves on top of Android:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

Performance is also great in a wrapped version. The bottleneck we had to solve was in event management, the GPU & compositor not in the JavaScript execution.

[Sencha] Ext JS commercial license is $329 per dev. The $600 includes optional tech support. There's also a $995 that includes the Designer UI builder, Sencha Touch support & Sencha Touch Charts.

Yup. If all the points followed each other and then just DM'd, then it would be one step better.

Hi Grand -- this is michael. Yes this was to respond to some of the perceptions out there that virtualization = slow. It's really not (at least now, it isnt' - as long as you know what you're doing, some of the tech docs to get the new hardware virtualization features working seem a bit daunting). And on the other hand, there's no alternative to having enough hardware capacity to meet your requirements. Virtualization can't make i/o capacity appear from thin air.