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The key difference here is whether your investment remains at risk. As long as the value of your investment is at risk, then the investment is considered unrealized.

Once you cash in your chips (sell) then the investment becomes realized.

Someone getting a loan against their stock portfolio is still at risk of loss of value of their holdings, therefore the investment gains remain unrealized.

It depends on what you think YouTube's product is. Are they a service that streams videos and recommendations to consumers, or a service that streams eyeballs and tracking data to advertisers? The first one might get by with HTML5, but the second one definitely requires some JS.

How is it different? Squandering typically means spending, which means the money is re-entering the economy, typically to people at lower rungs of the wealth ladder, and is not much different than other forms of redistribution.

Unless you mean the squandered billions was through literal setting piles of money ablaze or losing it all in a poker game to bigger billionaires, it seems if redistribution was the goal then squandering should be encouraged.

Eliminate the need to manage and inject API tokens into containers and servers and instead authorize containers and servers to perform those operations.

What does this look like in practice? Can someone provide example scenarios that this is describing?

I understand deterrence. I am commenting on the doublespeak. "Holding a target at risk" here exactly means wielding a credible way to destroy said target.

I would argue that replacing the phrase:

...weapon designed to hold high-value targets at risk in contested environments from standoff distances

with:

...weapon designed to destroy high-value targets in contested environments from standoff distances

leaves the meaning of the quote and overall press release completely unchanged.

This is so strange. If Affirm is the creditor why does he not ask Affirm to initiate a chargeback against the merchant? Is this one way Affirm can compete against credit cards, that they do not need to handle this kind of situation?

I've never understood why so many programmers and sysadmins feel the need to go straight to the Mac without considering any other option.

One reason is availability. Chances are, the PC laptop you took such pains to spec out are not nearly as available in case you need one on short notice. If I dropped my Macbook in the ocean this morning, I can walk into an Apple store and have a reasonable replacement by afternoon. Unless your PC specs are ok with random consumer/gaming laptops from Best Buy, you are likely looking at several days minimum wait, probably a lot more if they happen to be at the point in the product cycle where last year's model is in low stock and next year's hasn't come in yet.

You missed a third way which I think is actually most likely, given recent monetary stimulus policies:

3. You invest $500 in each student using prerecorded video classes and assignments graded by unpaid 'mentors', take on far more students, then structure groups of ISAs together into ISA-backed bonds, which you then sell to pension funds and other institutional investors for 15% off par value, or $25.5k each.

Not only do you get paid up front, but whether or not the ISAs eventually get paid back is no longer your problem. Also now instead of recruiting and vetting 200 teachers to teach your 2000 students, you recruit 10 teachers and a couple experienced sell-side traders and analysts.

It seems to me that both sides, through negotiation, arrived at the "correct" answer to the problem, which was withdrawal of missiles from Cuba and Turkey. In what way was the US response considered a shitshow, and why are US negotiators not considered as cool and wise as the SU ones here, considering they had to ultimately arrive at the same place?