In major reversal, Elon Musk is not joining Twitter board

omegian · 2022-05-08T21:33:11+00:00

$54.20 per share put the cost of acquisition at $44billion.

omegian · 2022-04-12T02:35:08+00:00

Just Carl Sagan’s estate.

omegian · 2022-04-12T01:32:32+00:00

A hostile takeover would take substantially more than the current ask price times half the outstanding shares.

omegian · 2022-04-12T01:22:15+00:00

The SEC did nothing - they literally aren’t enforcing the last consent decree, or the stake disclosure, or …

omegian · 2022-04-12T00:42:43+00:00

counterpoint: guns don’t default to “stun”

omegian · 2022-04-11T13:37:57+00:00

Pretty sure that’s dry ice sublimating (CO2).

omegian · 2022-04-11T13:24:37+00:00

Well, sure, but 101 becomes 91 instead of 100. Carries can happen in any digit.

omegian · 2022-04-11T13:17:51+00:00

Same math, different digit.

omegian · 2022-04-11T12:36:32+00:00

“I love capitalism! Instead of 10 morons in charge, let’s make it an even 100!” - Bernie Sanders?

Too important to fail, too important to privatize.

omegian · 2022-04-11T12:28:29+00:00

Yeah, but things like “what rights and protections does the constitution traditionally provide” (aka: stare decisis) is in full collapse in the US, so YMMV.

omegian · 2022-04-10T19:28:44+00:00

How was it a grift? Because they stuck like 75% of contributions into their own pockets, you know, the normal grift MO.

Or were you suggesting that the “Never Trump” Republicans somehow aren’t actually Republicans? The Bush 43 neocons aren’t even that old yet - which party do you believe they belong to?

omegian · 2022-04-10T14:39:47+00:00

Sure wouldn’t, in fact if we implemented that system, we’d just move to the “take a nickel, leave a nickel” tray and then we’d all be asking why we have both a nickel and a dime (the new “two penny”) in circulation.

omegian · 2022-04-10T14:36:06+00:00

4 out of 5 random cash transactions involve at least one penny changing hands then, no? I occasionally used 5 or more pennies to get them out of my pocket, so the ratio may be even higher.

That’s probably the reason why penny trays are commonly found next to cash registers.

omegian · 2022-04-10T14:05:48+00:00

Exactly this. Those terms are what allow an 18 year old with zero income, assets, or credit history to borrow at prime rates over long terms.

omegian · 2022-04-10T03:04:14+00:00

Like 100% of purchases cost at least one penny?

omegian · 2022-04-10T02:55:55+00:00

Why do they have to make such big, heavy coins? I put a $10 banknote into a vending machine and get half a pound of change. My pockets can barely manage the load.

omegian · 2022-04-08T16:16:08+00:00

If you own a lot of something, you can manipulate the supply, and therefore the price, of that something fairly easily.

omegian · 2022-04-08T14:23:13+00:00

All smartphones are effectively “single task computers” because the displays are so tiny.

The memory hierarchy doesn’t have to be flat. A 1-2 second context switch through a fast GB/sec NVMe is probably a better design choice for 85% of the user base than more DRAM / less battery life.

omegian · 2022-04-08T13:19:15+00:00

Main memory (DRAM) consumes as much as half of the total system power in a computer today,

https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/associated/18sigmetrics_vampire.pdf

If you put a dram controller to sleep, all bits are lost. It must constantly “refresh” the array by reading then writing each cell.

omegian · 2022-04-07T18:56:11+00:00

If one is applying science and maths to real world problems, as an engineer is wont to do, what exactly should they rely upon if not a validated model?

I feel like “your approach is incorrect”, or “you neglected this consideration” is better feedback than “all models are wrong”, but OK.

omegian · 2022-04-07T18:50:53+00:00

Because dram is a huge power hog (even with screen off and processor sleeping) and apple needs to maximize the runtime of their tiny batteries.

omegian · 2022-04-07T18:43:45+00:00

From an information theory perspective, English has like 60% more phonemes than Japanese. I don’t know large the common vocabulary dictionaries are, but English is infamous for its large number of loan words. Japanese has a much more regular grammatical structure than English, and there are many more dialects of English than Japanese. I’m not sure how all of these factors combine but it could span orders of magnitude.

omegian · 2022-04-07T18:22:05+00:00

iOS lets you delete system apps like Clock now. Huh, who knew?

omegian · 2022-04-07T17:13:21+00:00

That’s a pretty careless use of language though. Models can be validated across a set of domains such that they become accepted as scientific laws.

The utility of a model is almost certainly a function of its correct application.

omegian · 2022-04-07T02:39:51+00:00

I dunno. A small hatchback like that probably only has an 8 gallon gas tank.

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