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> How this is not one of the top comments is beyond me.

Uhm... Exactly this is mentioned in the article:

> He also gave himself an excuse to sell a bunch of Tesla stock near the highs.

So Levine already mentioned this.
Lots of people do this without necessarily being trolls because they feel their comment would be lost, especially if some giant topcomment is dominating the discussion.

People also do the opposite - writing a toplevel comment to discuss (berate, more often than not) multiple other comments - 'I can't believe the nattering nabobs of negativism that have been commenting here, etc'.

In both cases, writing a good, non-repetitive, non-meta toplevel comment is probably better but it's more work and potentially unsatisfying - a lot of the time, a comment like that will in fact be lost in a big discussion.
Yeah, that's how I used to do, and it was quite simple. I actually had much much more trouble with things like Recurly (whose API and packages are absolute garbage, IMO) and even Stripe than with the simpler gateways.

The only problems I had were solved with a few phone calls, as I had a bank manager very interested in doing business with the company I was working for.

But I was not in the USA/EU when I did this stuff, so I have no idea if Stripe and co. have improved things or not. For me (I later moved to Europe) it was a massive regression.
And would open up many other lawsuits from minority shareholders that would love to see this deal go through at the price that Musk offered. They're between a rock and a hard place and I think that that is the thing that pretty much guarantees that they will take it all the way to the last appeal to get it enforced. They can't afford not to.
Oh gosh, no, clearly they are bad terms. Deals don't happen for a lot reasons, o rational person would want to these terms understanding risk.

And it's doubtful Musk was so dumb he'd enter into this contract 'just for fun' knowing the terms.

I suggested he did want to buy it, got bad advice or didn't listen to his bankers, and then the market crashed, and now he's in a bind.
I tried network selection, but could not select any other networks. Sadly no mutual aid deal was made to permit Rogers customers to connect to non-Rogers networks.

I suspect if you popped the SIM out, it would try any of the 3 providers available (in Toronto anyway), and dunno how the device chooses which. If it chose Rogers (strongest signal?), it would also fail to go through and you might be unable to get a 9-1-1 call in until you run in the right direction.

But few carry around a 'trombone' for emergencies, and I'd need something sharp to get my case off.

But my blame is on the cellular phone: A 9-1-1 call that makes it to the tower and no further shouldn't be counted as a success by the phone.
I was certain this was going to be an article about OSC52[1], which is a very widely supported ANSI escape sequence (basically invisible TTY terminal codes) that your terminal application (ITerm2, Alacritty, etc) listens for in order to place OSC52-wrapped text into the normal system clipboard. Because it's an invisible escape code (like colour codes) it works everywhere; shells, SSH, Mosh, tmux, vim, etc.

I assumed everybody and everything was heading towards this as a standard nowadays. But the article obviously demonstrates that that isn't the case. But the only reason it gives for not using OSC52 is that it has the potential to lag for large copy/pastes, which I've never (knowingly) experienced in quite some years of use. I assume there must be security implications too, but it doesn't go into them.

Considering the ubiquitous, consistent simplicity of OSC52 I would have thought it needed a lot more discussion in this article in order to justify the quite frankly surprising hoop jumping of the author's solution. I'm not saying it's unjustified, just that I need more contextualisation against what I consider the de facto standard for a unified TTY clipboard.

1. https://oroques.dev/2020/11/27/vim-osc52.html
Massively profitable compared to their normal state of affairs anyway.
Even staunch libertarians agree that there are agreeable ways for a government to spend money.

With that said, the parent commenter subscribes to what political philsophies and/or ethics? ...
Do you literally crawl under the steering wheel of a car before you drive it? Why?
Not really. All shareholders are paid out in proportion to share ownership. Musk’s share goes to Twitter.
Steve Jobs also famously illegally parked in disabled parking spots and paid the fine because he didn’t care. And he famously leased a new car every 6 months because he didn’t want to put license plates on his car.

And tangential to that kind of behavior, Apple recently was paying a weekly 5 million Euro fine in the Netherlands rather than comply with an order from regulators.
If he had the cash to buy it, they could force him to. But if he lined up financing and those people bail, what then? Would the court make him liquidate all his Tesla stock, without regard to how that would injure other Tesla shareholders? Having assets does make one more vulnerable to court judgments, but savvy birch people will set themselves up to remain in the driver’s seat when possible.
The business model is elaborated on it extensively in the linked conversation, for whatever it's worth.
It's remarkable that this person still blogs under his real name.
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Wouldn't it be more sensible to release often and in smaller increments instead?
Why can't you do that? You only release one feature on top of master, test it to make sure nothing is broken then release it. The second feature has to merge on top of the new stable git hash once it's ready to be released. And so on... Bundling a bunch of stuff all at the same time seems like asking for misery and weird integration issues in production.
> spend a ton of money fighting for years

Twitter is worth $28b and Musk's offer was $44b - a $16bn delta. The most annual revenue that a single law firm in the US has made is about $4bn.[1]

Any amount Twitter could spend on lawyers is nothing compared to what they stand to make by winning.

If you're accounting for whatever "toll" it takes on the company's leadership and employee morale, $16bn is about 2.75 years of operating expenses. Even if you assume every employee is operating at 50% mental capacity the entire time, it still makes sense to fight as long as it's over in <= 5 years.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_law_firms_by_r...
You should put those instructions in the page :)
It's not so much 'support' as that it is more or less inevitable, whether he likes it or not, and that has mostly to do with the price than with anything else. Worst case he will have to sell it immediately after forcibly buying it at a lower price just to make sure the rest of his empire doesn't collapse.

Twitter is at best a distraction for Musk, at worst it could be his downfall.
At the same time they ruled that states could not regulate a "well regulated militia", so this has nothing to do with states rights.
> There are remedies for people who disobey court orders.

A Delaware court doesn’t have as much reach as you might think if most of Musk’s assets are not there.
Gem S2/S3 - from the early 90s. And they haven't been made for a very long time.

Poly-AT is mechanically pretty hard to do so it's quite expensive. It wasn't considered a prime selling feature because not many people really wanted it.

The people who did want it were desperate for it, but it's taken until now for it to start appearing in mainstream products.

Still no modern weighted keys, unfortunately.
As some one with 10+ years in info security, how do I get to be this actual expert In the room? Does it pay well enough? If I have to sell my soul to survive anyway, making more for it sounds good.
Renouncing citizenship has something like a 20%-of-net-worth tax
MIT scientists may have discovered how to fully reverse climate change
As developers, I think we need to think about how we reach this situation where we rely so badly on 3rd party dependencies to do our jobs.

There was a time when all we need as a framework like Django or Rails to write our code on top of it with few 3rd party dependencies, usually something that we could copy to our own repo, read and verify the code and be happy.

Now, no matter what ecosystem you are, it could be Python, Javascript or something else, you end up with hundreds of dependencies even for trivial and basic apps.

How did this happen?

Maybe it is the time to rethinking what we have doing.
The SEC filings are a matter of public record, which is part of why we call 'public' companies public in the first place: Twitter is - and Musk is as well - bound to do a lot of this out in the open because it affects the price of a listed stock.
To the extent that Elon Musk might represent a corner case w.r.t. the legal system even more than you’re average billionaire it would most likely be because of the national security tie-ins around SpaceX.

This is pure speculation on my part, but I don’t think it’s insane.
It’s very different. Can I open a PDF from Windows into Windows Sandbox with 2 clicks and close with 1 after reading, nearly instantaneously, without noticing the virtualization? Nope. Windows Sandbox is just a fresh VM, almost useless.
Why do you say that? Comes off as rather high-and-mighty and out of touch.
Who is number one?
More self-evident than outrageous but alright.
For Musk to get out of it he has to find a materially adverse effect (MAE), which is incredibly difficult and almost never happens. As Matt Levine explains in the article, it basically has to mean that Twitter is a complete fraud and has been covering up a fraud for a long time (think Enron), which is very unlikely given that users obviously use it, and advertisers obviously advertise on it quite happily.
No, but if the court orders it and he refuses, can that not be construed as contempt of court? People definitely go to jail for that.
So people also wanted to invest in Bernice Madoffs scheme, you didn't see a problem with that either?
Oh, it's funny that you can buy that as a server now. The research system was from 2015 I think.
Because it added fragility to the economy, just like people over paying for mortgage backed securities in 2008. If it was a few foolish individuals that would be different, but reckless speculation has been actively encouraged by the Fed across the whole economy, NFTs are just one example.
https://wormhole.app/
Has to be Trump.
> Oh, thank you arbiter of truth - however can we be so good as you to never make a mistake in our life?

Ok got it. So Musk was an idiot, and made a really stupid mistake.

Since you admit that this was all a really stupid mistake, and Musk apparently committed this stupid mistake, then it is reasonable to think that Musk attempting to buy twitter was also a really stupid mistake.

Other people were claiming that it is completely impossible for Musk to do something so stupid as to try to make a mistake by buying twitter, and then attempting to back out.

But, you should agree that those people are wrong, and apparently, yes, Musk can make very stupid decisions sometimes, like in the cave diving incident.
Really I feel like this has been a hot topic for at least 15 years.. for example 5 years ago this https://youtu.be/plVk4NVIUh8 was on hacker news and got a lot of discussion as I recall…

Ok maybe you are right my search yielded few posts that got any traction - so maybe it was just me sharing with people I know!
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He also darns his own socks and eats from glued together porcelain. Your money is safe with him!
Same. I just learned about OSC52 a week or two ago and it was so easy and seemless to get working over SSH, through Tmux, inside of Vim (i.e. multiple layers of indirection).

I had no idea that OSC escape sequences were a thing until then and now I think they're the best.
Seems sane. Its not like its a SMS / phone required situation is it? Unlike some others...
Crazy... is it totally legal?
I think size is a poor differentiator of might. A better comparison could be population or GDP. Population wise, Russia is a small country with about the same population as Mexico and about a third of the US. GDP wise, it is even smaller. As a result, its yearly military budget is what the US and NATO spend in a week on defense. In fact, looking at raw dollar figures, the biggest spend in this was between Russia and Ukraine has been by US and NATO - which is surprising when we like to say it is not US or NATO's war.
> They are of the same mind as any other person with a bit of arrogance and hubris they just have more money.

Not necessarily, but those are the ones that you will hear the most about.
I disagree that HN is only marginally better. on reddit, it doesn't matter how polite or substantive you are, if you step out of the groupthink you get downvoted to fuck. on HN, in my experience, as long as you're substantive and polite, even if you're genuinely egregiously wrong, you very rarely get downvoted. obviously there are other factors, like the lack of downvote for newer or low-karma users, but this is my experience
That’s the joke!
German parliament recommends recognition of Yazidi genocide
No, I don't find it odd. All the critical controls are in basically the same place in every car. Steering wheel, pedals, turn signals, etc. The rest I can figure out as needed. No need to study in advance.
People who design their data centers in at least rack-sized units and ideally data center sized units, and creates custom hardware fit for that purpose. Would be my personal definition.

Wikipedia has a short page with a different definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperscale_computing
Why would you? Just seize and liquidate his Telsa stock, and pay it to Twitter. Done, no jail needed.

Courts are entirely capable of seizing such assets.
If he has a judgement against him, couldn't they make it very hard for him to do any further business in Delaware? That could be quite a handicap.
I don't know why you're singling HRC (it also wasn't her but David Brock, which is ironically the kind of misinformation designed to make her seem ultra-nefarious that CTR was formed to combat) out here; literally every issue and political campaign has activists doing this. They're called messaging and persuasion campaigns, and they include everything from yard signs to forum posters to ad buys. Do you have an issue with conservatives or pro-life activists doing this?
Reply with a exclamation mark, that's shorthand that you are alarmed.
had the same experience. spent a couple thousand on colonoscopy and when the results were benign and it was "just" IBS, the gastroenterologist basically told me to go fuck myself. And eat more fiber.
You don't even need that, we just need less zoning that is "single family residence" only. Disallowing higher density housing is what caps housing growth.
Combine that with permitting more mixed use.

Much of this is borne of NIMBYist zoning rules, which have an often not-so-nice history behind them. And I get that we don't want a chemical plant next door, but I fail to see why a nail salon cannot be side-by-side with an apartment. If single-family-only is OK, we can have higher density permitted but stronger noise ordinances.

Why can't we have more sensible regulations that permit higher density and just just forced single-family or light commerical, but never the two mixed?
Skateboarders in 2008 don't get this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkeCZfG_KaI
I mean it's obviously not the tool for you, so don't use it. I find it for easier to navigate code using the vim modal concept, and can context switch relatively easily when moving over to another editor. I don't think anyone is trying to convert you or will be upset if they fail to do so.
"Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess."
http://pollenmobile.io
They don't need other buyers. If they win the court case, the shareholders get 44 billion dollars.
Hahahahahah like metal gear solid!
Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State
Symmetrically, the author demands nothing of anyone. They provide free code with terms of use.
So, long story short, it's not a tracking device, it's an aftermarket alarm system?

Guess what folks: with few exceptions, no one cares about tracking you. Enough with the paranoia already.
Not sure if he did this with the fashion brand logos but further down the thread he converted the tech company logos to grayscale to make his point. I don’t think it’s entirely fair to do so for the sake of this argument. Color does wonders for the diversity of aesthetics. While it’s true many modern logos look similar, saying they look “the same” while using a color filter to purposely make them look more similar feels dishonest.
He doesn't find fault with people selling the stock. He finds fault with people shorting the stock. He seems to believe shorting in general is morally wrong as it's external influences who don't understand the goal (or actively want the goal to fail) trying to make money on the failure of something.

Try and find any instance of him attacking anyone who was an investor and then sold out.
been playing with this all day. This thing is amazing. Thank you for recommending this.
While I greatly dislike the “if I act excessively squeaky, I will get some grease”, I have to say this is remarkably effective process within companies.

I just wish there was a way to better calibrate the company response to balance the 99.75% of customers who don’t write to the CEO with the tiny fraction who do.
Seems like a trivial service to make. Reddit has RSS, Twitter has webhooks, there are so many ways to monitor.

Hopefully if the service is worth reading, your customers will go and politely inform you. It is nice to have your work acknowledged.
Would you mind sharing how you were diagnosed?

I know that aortic aneurysms is a common side effect.

There is variety of supplements one can take.

There is a physician in Germany Dr. Stefan Piper who published a book on it. He goes over possible therapies. Tendonitis usually gets manageable. Neurological symptoms are the ones that are more difficult to treat.

Some people report success with high dose thiamine, but high dose thiamine has been helpful in fibro and small fiber neuropathy along with alpha lipoic acid. Anti depressants can be also used to manage symptoms.

Some people reported resolution with pirenzepine. There is a drug company putting pirenzepine in a cream to treat nerve damage. That is currently in trials. I think the company is called WinSanTor.

My condition has improved but I still cycle. I’m taking antioxidants and other supplements that support mitochondria.

There is a sticky thread on reddit r/floxies, that discuss some of the supplements used and reasoning behind them.
That's criminal, not civil court.

Civil court works on fiscal, property to mitigate damage. If he is found to breach contract, a court could order seizure of assets (cash or property).

There could be punitive damages assessed too, if his actions are seen as purposefully malign.
Ugh. It’s hard to get me to sympathize with Bezos, but it sounds like Rotterdam is just being petty here. The bridge isn’t in use anymore, it only takes a day dismantle it and another day to put it back (it was done before in 2007), and the yacht builder was going to pay for everything.
Yeah, and this thing probably didn't appear overnight. It's probably always been there since he's had the car.
The law isn't limited to cars.
How does a margin call work for $500 please Alex?
I don't disagree - write your own components in most cases.

Your original comment stated, as fact, "you'll get yourself or your employer sued, and/or your work pulled off the internet against your will."

You're right that suits do happen, and while there is a grain of truth in what you said, stating it the way you did is just too bold in my opinion. I highly doubt the individual developer would be sued. How would a company seeking damages know who made the git commit so they could target the developer?

The clarification in your reply about copying being willful, profitable and profit-damaging is where things start to make sense. And if you had said something along the lines of that, I wouldn't have replied and would have found myself in agreement.
How would the Delaware Chancery seize $44B worth of Elon Musk's TSLA shares?
And the added problem that the assets need to be valued to tax them - for liquid assets this will be much more challenging than income. Things like CGT or income tax happen at the same time as a transaction in dollars so they are easy to value. Wealth taxes would be open to gaming using the same process you describe here.
It's very common for companies to have an "executive support" organization entirely dedicated to dealing with customers who complain to executives. They often have power to do things and move pieces within different parts of the company in ways that nobody else does.

I had this experience with Charter Spectrum. Among other things, they kept threatening to send me to collections for not returning equipment which I was actively using to obtain their services, which I was paying for. I looked up the email addresses of a few executives in relevant departments and sent them an email explaining everything. I got a call from an "executive support agent" (or some similar title) the next day. It still took a couple weeks to resolve the problem, but it did get resolved, and they locked me in at a lower rate.

Sad that it's necessary, but hey, if it works, it works. Just be polite and ask for what you need.
> global warming

Don't lump this in with those others. It totally spoils your credibility.
Even if what you say is true (it isn't), this is a battle between billionaires, eg the board and large stockholders @ twitter.
Honestly, i strongly suspect there is more to this story.

If there wasn't, seems like it would be a slam dunk lawsuit.

I also dont understand why they continued to use shopify if shopify was keeping their money.
Most of the middle class in America has a salary, or at least a paycheck, but distressing little cash saved.
But they do pay the taxes that pay the bills.
>it's just meme after pun after stupid comment

this really is the case. it's actually quite an interesting social phenomenon. facebook and twitter aren't like that[1], and they have a roughly similar userbase at this point. where did it originate? what UI/UX features promote it? was digg like that too?

[1] yes people make jokes, but there isn't the same scramble to make the best pun/chain of puns every time someone makes a post.
This is an appeal to authority that is not valid: there are plainly a lot of lawyers out there who's legal opinion leaves a lot of daylight against the actual law. Rudy Giuliani took a long time to get disbarred.
Because it works for them, presumably.
Well, to be fair, they did unilaterally assign their notion of criticality to this package and based on that unilaterally imposed conditions that the maintainer did not agree to up front and cannot negotiate.

One option would be for the maintainer to never release an update for their package on PyPI going forward.
Technically you could synthesize more complex hydrocarbons such as kerosene as well, it's just that it's way more complexity, energy, and infrastructure required.