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The particular one you linked to ended up behind, but could've been way ahead if they stayed open for another 6 months until the pandemic hit.

Original: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mall-short-seller-shuts-down-be...

Different fund who raked it in: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34785141/shopping-mal...

Exactly.

Thinking about this starts to border on paranoia, but if the document is written by a sufficiently determined organization, it's all possible.

You can take additional measures, but you can never be sure that you've avoided all forms of watermarking. As an extreme example, suppose a company distributed 4 versions of a document to employees, each printed in red, blue, green, or black ink (a variant of steganography). Even though you've taken a crap photo, you still have the color in evidence, and they know which subset of the employee pool the leak came from.

Any number of techniques like this could be used, such that you can't be sure the "watermark" is gone without making the document functionally useless - especially if you don't know what the watermark is. e.g. maybe you take a black and white photo of the document above, but they also changed some of the wording on the page in each version.

+1 to my sibling comment's point about how each digital device you use to cover your trail will do its best to leave a new trail.

I have no knowledge of old-style satellites, but have worked on cubesats (low earth orbit) reasonably recently.

Star trackers give you location in orbit and orientation of your satellite. I don't believe you can get absolute time from them, especially given that Earth time is somewhat decoupled from Earth's orbital dynamics.

What you can do is get time using GPS, like you would on the ground. Not sure if that's possible for higher orbits, but definitely for low orbits. There have also been some experiments with laser-based synchronization (a PPS-style signal, I believe?) and you could get a coarse sync with a regular old radio uplink.

Not quite true - ISOs can incur AMT at time of exercise, which is kind of complicated and doesn't always create a tax burden. In the $100k range, it probably will, but they'd have to do the calculation to find out.

https://www.esofund.com/blog/amt-tax

Regardless, they'll still have to front the $ to exercise and be left with illiquid stock. It's not a good situation.

I personally didn't like this change because it removed the tiered nature of the paid platform. Previously, you could mix and match 3 feature packs, at $2/month each. Now, they've combined it into $5/month flat, regardless of how many features you use.

This may be the right answer for them (chasing the premium competitive market and all that, and maybe less tech debt with fewer tiers), but it caused me to drop my subscription. As a "casual" cyclist, I was willing to pay $2/month, but not $5/month, for the value I got out of the service.

Something doesn't parse for me in your second paragraph - CAN HI and CAN LO are 2 parts of the same bus (each bus has 2 wires per the differential spec) and so of course they go to the same device on different pins. Am I missing something about the Jeep architecture?

Slightly different than what you're describing, but same concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbtvTuivJu8

It likely refers to the popular STM32F4 Discovery board [0], which is a devkit for that family of uCs. Good for prototyping, has an onboard programmer and everything. It has 1MB of flash, so I think this line means "if you wanted to use this board, you'd be better off with a full RTOS that can make use of that code space, rather than M2OS which is optimized for single-kB flash sizes".

The rest of your comment I agree with. It seems to be a half-baked academic project. Might be interesting if you know anything about Ada, which I don't.

[0] https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32f4discovery.html

Sounds like a corollary to the Dunning-Kruger Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

The first link mentions transfusions, but it's really just another comment on Slashdot saying that they heard that some doctors are thinking about hemoglobin-based causes. Nothing concrete or sourced.

While I mourn the loss of cheap and quick options in SF, I didn't lose much sleep over that particular restaurant. I had sporadic access to the back-of-house at that BK for various reasons (that I won't explain here) and I'm sure it was only scraping by on health inspections. Rats, poor handling of trash, terrible smell, etc. It was closed once in 2016 for some of the above. You can't have a good third place when it's also a biohazard.

All this to say, however, that I agree with you that formula retail shouldn't be demonized by SF as much as it is.

Heartbeat would hopefully also include a counter, so that a locked input signal would result in the vehicle rejecting the heartbeat (sees that each message is the same instead of incrementing the counter).

No guarantee that's how they implemented it, though.

How can it be one-way if you can push new releases to the device?

1. Any concerns about privacy? Even if Memfault is one-way (as you mentioned in a different comment), that doesn't mean that important user information is not exposed. Battery SOC and last-seen stats aren't completely harmless.

2. Maybe this will be clearer when you release docs on the SDK - do you provide interfaces for normal logging in addition to just crash logging? Ideally, firmware applications should never crash, but unexpected logic states or invalid user input happen all the time.

3. How are you expecting licensing to work? Per device? Monthly subscription fee? Flat fee software purchase?

4. Are your libraries ASIL or FDA certified to allow use in the automotive or medical industries? What are the reliability/safety implications of wrapping your main binary in Memfault's monitoring interface?

Google's is much worse for any significant number of files. It burns a bunch of CPU/battery like you described for Dropbox, but it also freezes eventually and has to be force-killed. I gave up trying to sync my former Dropbox files to Drive.

Looks like it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190513170015/https://blog.evja...

Some Starbucks did this for a while as well, provided adapters for USB micro / Lightning and had chargers at the center of every table. Not sure if they still do.

This is similar to the idea mentioned, but again... requires you to be logged in and tracked. I liked the first implementation of it, not sure about the current form. https://contributor.google.com/v/beta

In the SF Bay Area, Caltrain is aboveground and is more than quiet enough to call into meetings. Think NYC's MetroNorth, there's no reason you wouldn't be able to make a call until you get into the tunnels near Manhattan. On the other hand, BART is underground with signal repeaters just about all the way through - but it's very noisy so you could call in and listen but probably not contribute.

If your transit system is underground without repeaters though, I agree that you're out of luck. I can't imagine trying to take a call on the T.