Because it isn't a simple loan, and the value of the equipment itself as collateral is highly doubtful anyways. Nvidia is investing in their customers by buying their stock. Nvidia is directly buying compute from their…
> When autonomy is solved, they could put a bed or office or dining table in the car. Have you ever tried reading a book while being driven around? You get car sick really fast, because your vestibular system does not…
The internet has been around for quite a while now, and is absolutely critical for a lot of applications. Most people would never give up the internet. Yet there are still many applications without explicit mandatory…
I did not, that's the "you can squeeze them for a couple of years" part.
Broadcom has absolutely zero interest in the long-term future of VMware. Their only goal is to squeeze as much money out of it as possible before it goes bust. Let's say that VMware had a $10B revenue with a $9B…
A huge part of that was fearmongering by people selling compliance consultancy services and people trying to find loopholes allowing them to keep abusing their users' data. For a lot of companies it really wasn't that…
Contrary to popular belief, the EU is not very fast when it comes to enforcement on requirements like these. We already saw this with the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR: those scary hundreds-of-millions-of-euros fines are…
There have been rumours like this about the US gold storage for decades. Its audits only look at a tiny percentage of the holdings at a time, any kind of weighing or purity inspection is the exception rather than the…
> You can't quickly trade with the gold that's in their own safe storage facility in Zeist, because you would need to physically transport it. More specifically: very few people besides the NL government have any gold…
Russia is going to have a very hard time directly attacking the Eurozone without also hitting NATO home soil - which through Article 5 would also pull in plenty of non-Euro countries, including the United States.…
The US has been suffering from late-stage capitalism for quite a while now. The obvious example is Citizens United allowing corporations to make unlimited political bribes. We just pretend it is okay by calling it…
Obviously. Every projection will be off. Unless you are a 15th-century sailor, there is no reason to favor the Mercator projection over any other one. Sticking with it is also a political choice.
The "3rd world" is huge. Anyone who thinks otherwise is clearly in need of a less-misleading map. On a traditional Mercator projection Africa looks to be smaller than the United States and Canada combined. In reality…
How many of the apps you use on a daily base have some form of AI integration? In my experience, outside of FLOSS software it is approaching 100%. How many of those did you intentionally enable it? In my experience,…
A huge chunk of the demand is already fake. It's why there are so many auto-enabled "helpers", blinking nag buttons, and popups begging you to pleasepleaseplease use their new AI feature. The vast majority of people are…
You're forgetting about dividend, and off-market trade. If a company is worthless if it isn't public, then IKEA would be absolute garbage. Quite strange for a company making hundreds of millions in profit for its owners.
Seriously? The "you can't knowingly lie in your financial statements, and you have to make an actual effort when compiling them" section? If that's a "100% dealbreaker" to you, nobody should ever invest in your company,…
It isn't very extreme, in my opinion. I am only making one claim, and it's a rather modest one: Memory safety bugs aren't any different from other bugs. The "you're holding it wrong" crowd has been claiming that memory…
Qantas has never had a hull loss in the jet age. Its last fatal accident was with a 10-passenger propeller plane, back in 1951. It is widely regarded as the world's safest airline. Being able to keep this "never lost a…
That's also what mostly happened in this case. 59 tonnes was sold in the US and bought back in London, 27 tonnes was physically transferred from the US to The Netherlands, and 27 tonnes was physically transferred from…
Its vulnerability overview page[0] also helpfully lists which were caused by the use of C. The fact that even an extremely-high-quality codebase like Curl is still encountering things like use-after-free issues is…
In my local area Google Maps is still missing some rather crucial elements of a high-throughput road, which were added to OpenStreetMaps almost two years ago.
But "whatever your local country calls it" isn't always clear! There are plenty of places where the official name differs from the commonly-used name. For example, in The Netherlands the official name for The Hague is…
The Stuxnet PLCs weren't touching either, though. The worm was designed to jump across network air gaps via USB flash drives, and spread across isolated networks to other hosts. Finally, it targeted what was likely…
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Because it isn't a simple loan, and the value of the equipment itself as collateral is highly doubtful anyways. Nvidia is investing in their customers by buying their stock. Nvidia is directly buying compute from their…
> When autonomy is solved, they could put a bed or office or dining table in the car. Have you ever tried reading a book while being driven around? You get car sick really fast, because your vestibular system does not…
The internet has been around for quite a while now, and is absolutely critical for a lot of applications. Most people would never give up the internet. Yet there are still many applications without explicit mandatory…
I did not, that's the "you can squeeze them for a couple of years" part.
Broadcom has absolutely zero interest in the long-term future of VMware. Their only goal is to squeeze as much money out of it as possible before it goes bust. Let's say that VMware had a $10B revenue with a $9B…
A huge part of that was fearmongering by people selling compliance consultancy services and people trying to find loopholes allowing them to keep abusing their users' data. For a lot of companies it really wasn't that…
Contrary to popular belief, the EU is not very fast when it comes to enforcement on requirements like these. We already saw this with the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR: those scary hundreds-of-millions-of-euros fines are…
There have been rumours like this about the US gold storage for decades. Its audits only look at a tiny percentage of the holdings at a time, any kind of weighing or purity inspection is the exception rather than the…
> You can't quickly trade with the gold that's in their own safe storage facility in Zeist, because you would need to physically transport it. More specifically: very few people besides the NL government have any gold…
Russia is going to have a very hard time directly attacking the Eurozone without also hitting NATO home soil - which through Article 5 would also pull in plenty of non-Euro countries, including the United States.…
The US has been suffering from late-stage capitalism for quite a while now. The obvious example is Citizens United allowing corporations to make unlimited political bribes. We just pretend it is okay by calling it…
Obviously. Every projection will be off. Unless you are a 15th-century sailor, there is no reason to favor the Mercator projection over any other one. Sticking with it is also a political choice.
The "3rd world" is huge. Anyone who thinks otherwise is clearly in need of a less-misleading map. On a traditional Mercator projection Africa looks to be smaller than the United States and Canada combined. In reality…
How many of the apps you use on a daily base have some form of AI integration? In my experience, outside of FLOSS software it is approaching 100%. How many of those did you intentionally enable it? In my experience,…
A huge chunk of the demand is already fake. It's why there are so many auto-enabled "helpers", blinking nag buttons, and popups begging you to pleasepleaseplease use their new AI feature. The vast majority of people are…
You're forgetting about dividend, and off-market trade. If a company is worthless if it isn't public, then IKEA would be absolute garbage. Quite strange for a company making hundreds of millions in profit for its owners.
Seriously? The "you can't knowingly lie in your financial statements, and you have to make an actual effort when compiling them" section? If that's a "100% dealbreaker" to you, nobody should ever invest in your company,…
It isn't very extreme, in my opinion. I am only making one claim, and it's a rather modest one: Memory safety bugs aren't any different from other bugs. The "you're holding it wrong" crowd has been claiming that memory…
Qantas has never had a hull loss in the jet age. Its last fatal accident was with a 10-passenger propeller plane, back in 1951. It is widely regarded as the world's safest airline. Being able to keep this "never lost a…
That's also what mostly happened in this case. 59 tonnes was sold in the US and bought back in London, 27 tonnes was physically transferred from the US to The Netherlands, and 27 tonnes was physically transferred from…
Its vulnerability overview page[0] also helpfully lists which were caused by the use of C. The fact that even an extremely-high-quality codebase like Curl is still encountering things like use-after-free issues is…
In my local area Google Maps is still missing some rather crucial elements of a high-throughput road, which were added to OpenStreetMaps almost two years ago.
But "whatever your local country calls it" isn't always clear! There are plenty of places where the official name differs from the commonly-used name. For example, in The Netherlands the official name for The Hague is…
The Stuxnet PLCs weren't touching either, though. The worm was designed to jump across network air gaps via USB flash drives, and spread across isolated networks to other hosts. Finally, it targeted what was likely…
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