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In a merger you can take as long as you want to go from

1. Two separate companies except at the end of the quarter we add their revenue and expenses together in a spreadsheet to transition to

2. One fully integrated organization

And usually you are becoming more efficient and saving time and money as you integrate.

Splitting a company needs to happen quickly or you'd get all sorts of weird effects where coworkers are ostensibly competitors whilst sharing resources during the transition. And you have to expend a huge amount of effort. Just a couple random complex systems that need to be untangled off the top of my head: physical property and leases, IP space for every IT service you run, multi-year contracts with every vendor from janitorial to SaaS, multi year contracts with customers depending on how the split goes, and of course all the intermingled finances and HR and spreadsheets every company in the world lives on. I'm sure there's thousands more considerations.

I agree antitrust is a big problem that needs to be solved. But "it should be the same amount of effort to merge and split a company" is just fantasy.

Everyone knows what water and electricity are, the vast majority couldn't explain what service AWS provides.

You feel a stock is overvalued and you short it. You feel a stock is undervalued and you buy it. What's the difference?

Notice the story has cubicals, how nice! Most these stories are pretty old. I suspect because there are less jobs in some big F500 campus with colocated engineering, accounting, etc and a unionized manufacturing plant all in the same place.

Is the hope that power will be cheaper because solar panels have direct and continuous exposure to the sun?

Total spend is higher. And if your $20 tricket breaks you're less likely to bother to return it if $20 doesn't mean that much to you. Plus other reasons I'm sure.

But what does this mean? Only vantablack is black, everything else is grey?

Also how believable are both Steam and Roblox's numbers with regard to bot accounts? I have no idea about this, I'm biased towards Steam but based on the HN comments every time Roblox comes up I get the vibes that they are a comparatively less ethical company that might be willing to push the boundaries of ignoring bots for the sake of better metrics to impress investors. Also this isn't data at all but the steam games I play wouldn't benefit from bots, but I could see players of some of the silly little games my kids play in Roblox benefit from having some bot accounts to help you.

Addressing works differently (no broadcast, multicast everywhere, link-local is mandatory). Configuration works differently (SLAAC, RA, DHCPv6 is not a drop-in replacement for regular DHCP). Neighbor discovery replaces ARP and depends on ICMPv6 working. Fragmentation behavior changed. NAT is “not a thing” by design, which breaks a bunch of assumptions people built entire networks around.

Transitioning to another system would work (and seems inevitable at some point in the next hundred years??) but oof it would be chaotic.

You still need a strong economy and middle class tax base to have any sort of welfare state.

The adrenaline from rushing to class somehow made me both ace the test and be the first to turn it in.

Funny enough that was my last day attending, I decided I wanted to switch majors and dropped it the next week. I always wondered what the professor thought haha.

Or they just like spending time outside messing with plants? You could even call it a type of hacking if what you're trying to accomplish requires "a high degree of skill".

Forgetting to pay a bill with all the accounts you are juggling then wiping out your gains with one late fee?

Doesn't pass the smell test. I think I could push an electric car at least a mile a day if that's what I spent most my extra calories on. If I did that I'd surpass its range in well under 2 years, much less than my lifetime.

Or, even older! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473487 (2009)