Sad news. She gave me a gmail invite after I begged for one on slashdot, seems like an eon ago. We corresponded off and on but unfortunately I was never able to meet her in real life. Rest in peace.
Even assuming you are correct on all these points ASLR is still an important use case and the effective security of current 64-bit address spaces is low.
Agree Raleigh and the general Triangle area is a good one. Maybe surprising for most here but Maryland and Virginia is like this as well. We're more expensive but you can get 1-3 acres within an hour commute of DC and/or Baltimore with a relatively robust tech scene, especially if you're willing to work for the government. Areas like Frederick, MD even have reasonable rail commutes into DC!
If anyone trades options, the IV on options expiring in March on AMD went up significantly last week with no apparent news, probably because of these guys.
Seems like the ultimate end-game here is to have mini-vms for every process using CPU-level ring protection. If you can't speculate across privilege levels, only inside them, it isn't a security problem anymore.
He definitely set off a chain of events that caused automated market makers to re-evaluate their idea of a fair market value rapidly in the downward direction, and it cascaded from there.
I mean, I don't think that is what is happening right now, but you might be surprised what it takes to move a market sometimes. The Flash Crash[1] was caused by a single individual. Granted he was playing with futures and you can get some insane leverage with a modest account there, but it is within the ability of a couple of individuals with six-figure accounts to make some well placed bets and move a market significantly.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, I don't think you are wrong. Possibly the misunderstanding comes from a slight technicality - markets exist because buyers and sellers like a convenient place to trade. When buyers and sellers convene they arrive at a market clearing price, which is by definition the value of a company at that time. But finding that value is not the purpose of a market, and the fact that there are many varying opinions as to what the value of a company at any given time should be is what makes a market in the first place.
TSLA is approximately 66% owned by institutional investors(investment banks, funds of any sort(including active and index funds that may be in 401(k)s). That leaves ~30% of the shares controlled by individuals, which is fairly typical.
Most automakers do something similar now. Regular financing is so cheap now it almost always makes sense to get the cash back deals from the manufacturer rather than get the 0% financing.
And they chose to buyback stock and pay dividends, which means they think those other uses for their cash are unproductive relative to buying back the stock.
Most interesting thing is that it is designed for long haul trucking. Can't want to hear how they are pulling that off, doesn't seem to be possible given current battery densities.
I wouldn't be surprised if a 2x or 3x more efficient boring machine is the ultimate product of this and it makes future infrastructure projects much cheaper as a result.
Somehow I think Elon Musk has made it through the middlebrow dismissal phase of this if the concept has made it this far(to include actual digging in SpaceX's parking lot even).
A more accessible wargame simulator would be the recently released Hearts of Iron IV(http://store.steampowered.com/app/394360/), a very realistic WW2-era military grand strategy game. Playing a game or two and you will quickly realize how shallow basic analysis and games such as Civilization, in terms of warfighting, are.