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Jeff Bezos sells $1.8bn of Amazon stock
Move marks chief executive’s first sale of shares since his divorce in April
August 1, 2019 2:20 pm by Tim Bradshaw in London and Shannon Bond in San Francisco
Jeff Bezos has sold $1.8bn worth of Amazon shares over the past few days, in the ecommerce chief’s first stock sale since his divorce.

Mr Bezos, who is the world’s richest person according to Forbes, has lately cashed in about $1bn worth of Amazon stock a year to fund his rocket venture, Blue Origin. In October last year, he said he planned to spend “a little more” than that in 2019.

Blue Origin, which was founded in 2000 and is funded entirely by Mr Bezos, is targeting its first manned space flight on New Shepard, its reusable rocket, later this year.

In May Mr Bezos unveiled a new lunar lander, which he said was the first step towards colonising the moon. “It’s time to go back to the moon — this time to stay,” he said.

No specific reason for this week’s sale was given in a series of regulatory filings published late on Wednesday. Amazon declined to comment beyond the filings.

In April, Mr Bezos agreed a divorce settlement with his former wife MacKenzie that saw him retain three quarters of his stake in Amazon. Ms Bezos said she would hand over all her interests in Blue Origin and the Washington Post newspaper to her former husband as part of the settlement, as well as her Amazon voting rights.

Following this week’s sales, Mr Bezos’ remaining Amazon stock holdings are worth around $109bn, at Thursday’s opening price of around $1,878. The company’s shares have fallen since it reported a spike in expenses last week, due to its investment in one-day shipping.

Although Amazon’s net income in the three months to June rose by 3.6 per cent to $2.6bn, earnings of $5.22 a share fell short of Wall Street’s estimate of $5.58, while its profit guidance for the current quarter also missed analysts’ projections.

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All good. As we describe in the post, tone can be easy to read too much into since it lacks visual and audio signs to go off of, so I gave you the benefit of the doubt :)
Isn't part of the reasoning for doing the former enabling the latter? Isn't it completely essential to do this research before having any chance of sending people to Mars? I don't know the answer by the way, perhaps it was 'pure science' without any pretence of knowledge transferring over, but seems extremely unlikely that's the case - a certain amount of transferable knowledge is guaranteed just in the mechanics of doing it.
I remember artists like Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Orbital , etc. being called IDM (intelligent) dance music circa the late 90s, followed by “Electronica”, I guess they just merged the two terms.
I’d think “thang” would be a bit closer than “thing”, given your examples plus the ones in the article
if you make the website simple enough that it loads quickly on a bad connection and it loads the same content on a fast connection, why would anyone pay extra for it to be even faster?
Or you could read up on the astonishing crimes and incompetence of the Chavez regime.
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Oh, I noticed I've gotten new followers on Spotify in just a new minutes. I love shared Spotify playlists so, so much.

I also entertain friends with my 'Mistape', a six-track, made-to-crossfade playlist sans genre BS, which I update Fridays https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6LpZZfvO70x1YkNkRGToMV
I asked this exact same question a while back as well, here's a link to that discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985057

Glad to see Michael Hartl's book on rails was suggested here, that's what prompted me to post my thread.

As a summary of that thread:

drracket: http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html

VueJS: https://vuejs.org (not a tutorial)

freecodecamp

K&R

Laracasts
I've grown a lot more skeptical of what Gates has been doing with his foundation after investigative journalists started reporting on it.
Searching for your exact question indicates it does happen.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27233798/ns/us_news-crime_and_cour...

> Commission President Anthony Pacheco said Friday that he was highly concerned after learning police have arrested at least two innocent people because of faulty fingerprint analysis.
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Either way, it's still a laughably small amount to set aside. They leaked data on 147 million people, are they really only expecting 248k people to want to be reimbursed? That's 0.0017% of the affected population.
Any day now I expect to see some device described as "massively tiny" or "massively lightweight".
But to have the restraint of not spending the money and putting it into a fund is a whole different level.

Being from the Netherlands, which has/had large gas fields, it makes me jealous our government didn’t have a similar foresight.
IBM gives cancer-killing drug AI project to the open source community
Is Vlad getting a cut for hosting him?
What do the people do if their new thing doesn’t work out? There will be plenty of these. If UBI isn’t life long then it’s more like giving everybody a sum of money which they can use to start something new.

If they cant fall back on UBI then it’s exactly the same situation as we have now where a lot of people stay in careers they hate because they are afraid of losing what they have.
Maybe it will get better at some point in the future but the systems available and in use today have a very alarmingly high false positive rate.

https://news.sky.com/story/met-polices-facial-recognition-te...
There is incentive to connect you to the wifi, but no to the internet. Having you trapped behind a captive portal is perfect for this. You are connected to their wifi so they can more accurately track you through the store, but you are not using their internet bandwidth.
I'm saying there is a difference between lending/borrowing money and a perversion of the Surveillance State.

They current "credit tracking" systen has massive over-reach. So much so that if there's a breach/hack thousands if not millions are subjected to those mistakes. __And__ we have no choice but to say "Thank you sir. Can I have another?" We have __zero__ alternatives. Normalized or not, that's unacceptable.

There is a differnce between evaluating my credit worthiness and mitigating your risk, and imposing a monopolistic over-reach program that controls the fate of so many.
"Lazarus Lazaridis' personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats." I agree completely that "cutesy" things don't belong in professional contexts (I like to make sensible exceptions occasionally to reassure everyone that I am, in fact, human), but these are his critters, so he is entitled to subject his readers to them (just like someone who posts pictures of their happy-smiley family). Also, you should be more concerned about humans, who carry parasites and bacteria (and viruses!) which are vastly more dangerous to you. :)
Adam Curtis explored this in more detail in the second part of his 3-part documentary “All watched over by machines of loving grace“, titled “The use and abuse of vegetational concepts”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...

The concept of “balance of nature” is generally associated with the environmental movement, and I too thought so until I watched Curtis’ documentary. Here is a quote from the summary in the Wikipedia article:

> However, this was opposed by many people within the environmental movement, since the model did not allow for people to change their values to stabilise the world, and they argued that the model tried to maintain and enforce the current political hierarchy. Arthur Tansley who had invented the term ecosystem, had once accused Field Marshal Jan Smuts of the "abuse of vegetational concepts". Smuts had invented a philosophy called holism, where everyone had a 'rightful place', which was to be managed by the white race. The 70s protestors claimed that the same conceptual abuse of the supposed natural order was occurring, that it was really being used for political control.

The article subject of this discussion, from National Geographic, has much less substance to it but this is the part I think reflects the point that a blind adherence to that concept will actually damage the enviroment:

> But the most obvious, and pressing, manifestation is the looming climate crisis, says Corinne Zimmerman, a psychologist at Illinois State University. While the vast majority of scientists agree that efforts to address climate change must involve human action, a public misconception about nature being in balance could inhibit progress. “If nature is all robust and fine, she'll take care of herself, we don't have to do anything about our carbon footprint,” she said. “It's a very naive understanding of nature.”

This article in NatGeo is not detailed enough but it’s quick to read, so I would recommend anyone interested in protecting the environment to take a quick look at it, and in any case watch Adam Curtis’ documentary where he gives this idea a better grounding and shows how things end up not as intendend. We can not base the fight against the destruction of our natural environment on misconceptions.

In the words of (fictional) astronaut Mark Watney[1], we are going to have to “science the shit out of this”.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mark+watney+science+the+shit+out+o...
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Jonathan Palardy 'Why Learn AWK' [1]. I'd tried to learn awk a few times but just couldn't grok it. This essay gave me a lightbulb moment.

Honourable mention to 'Automate the Boring Stuff with Python' [2], which does what not a lot of tutorials do - motivate programming for non-technical users.

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Removing the last payphone boxes in Ireland
We are :-) We realized that there is a need for public job posts. (Currently, you have to be logged in to see them on Moonlight.) So, this is actually us doing a no-code prototype of our next feature to verify whether it's worth building!
Of course you did

First you started by saying how "Processed foods are the the issue. Not "grains". Carbohydrates are not the devil here"

and then

"But so many overlook how carbs are good. Fruits and vegetables are loaded with carbs and fiber. Most people don't think 5 grams of broccoli carbs are bad for you, but it's obvious when you compare those 5 grams from broccoli to 5 grams of carbs from Oreos."

According to you then barley and legumes which are loaded with carbs (Good carbs, not Oreos carbs) and fibers are good and doesn't make someone fat, because as you wrote, processed foods are the issue, right?
Nowhere in my post i say anything about "copious amounts", you did.
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Hi, coauthor here. Our argument is not that extensions can't abuse chrome.webRequest. What exactly is dishonest here?
The same things were probably said when they rolled out the polygraph machine, and that's still notoriously ineffective.
This was actually much more interesting than I thought it would be. And well-researched.
He probably doesn't pay m/any taxes on that

Unlike income, the raw tax footprint would be at long term capital gains tax rate of 20% + 3.8% and Washington State has no tax on this kind of transactions.

He can get a further 50% deduction on that moving half the money to a foundation he owns and controls completely. If he had any carryover foundation donations in the past then it applies here too.

Any prior substantial long term capital losses offset this as well

and his other non-amazon projects likely pass through Net Operating Losses directly to him (if structured as a partnership)

He probably pays 8% tax on this if that, doesn't have to worry about margin calls, its totally free and clear.
Your insight is valuable and interesting. I'm certainly not an expert on Haskell and I'll take a look at your book recommendations. Thank you.

I have to say though I can't agree with you on category theory yet. Especially the part about functors. The fmap for the functor f looks to me to be 100 percent the definition of the morhphism that maps arbitrary categories to the morphisms in functor f. The resource I am reading on category theory makes it seem highly relevant to Haskell and software design in general. I'm curious as to your opinion on why the functor in Haskell only has a passing relationship to functors in category theory.
I'm actually really curious, can someone please tell me why pointing out that the mac mini makes certain trade-offs for its form factor is apparently controversial?
yep -- first time I heard it was on Dj Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's "I'm All That" circa 1991. "...set my sights on making a record that people thought was a hype jawn." I was living in New England at the time and all the middle school kids [including me] started saying it shortly thereafter.

We generally assumed it was a synonym for "joint" [as described in the linked article] in the sense of "unit of work," e.g. "A Spike Lee Joint"

[p.s. for the record, "Homebase" is an outstanding LP that still sounds great today]
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What reports are you referring to?
> For a little math, $31 million only makes it to 248,000 claims of the 150,000,000 people affected before it starts diluting.

It's even more fun if you look at it as a percentage. They leaked data on 147,000,000 people, and only have enough cash to pay out for 248,000. That's 0.0017% of those affected.

Who in their right mind thought that so few would want reimbursement?
That's super cool. I really like the rivers that show up sometimes.
Would you be open to sharing more? What sort of things are you doing in Python that are new and unique, distinct from capabilities you had in spreadsheets?
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San Jose, 2010

Me to cop: That's him you can see him breaking into the car here at 10:15, then at 12:05 we have a perfect clear view of his face.

Cop: We can't really do anything with this, I mean we can take the copy of the video but we don't have any way to identify him.

Me: So we can't really do anything?

Cop: Yep sorry
This seems like a loaded question -- do you mean to imply that to "like video games" you must like "all video games" including inherently broken and ones that promise the world in tech demo/e3 while delivering garbage on release date?

Just because one "likes books" does not mean that they should be forced to suffer gleefully through turds like Dr. Phil's "Self Matters".