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The first syllable is stressed in the US

I did this hike with some friends years ago. It can be wet, but it's a beautiful hike. You can camp on the beach and make fires every night. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a through hike with lots of terrain you can't access except by foot.

“removes the vast majority of the ME's software modules (including network stack, RTOS and Java VM)”

There’s a Java VM on these things?!

Update: This is wrong. Ignore it. The poison pill is not diluting any individual shareholder disproportionately. What it is doing is issuing the right to buy shares at a steep discount. For example, if shares of Company XYZ are currently trading at $50/share, the board would issue all the company's shareholders the right to buy stock at $25/share. Economically, everyone should exercise their rights since this is a good deal. The issue for the hostile bidder is that it can become quite expensive to actually fund the exercise price to maintain their ownership interest. The company now also has more cash and so purchasing all the remaining stock that the hostile bidder does not own will become more expensive/difficult.

I believe Microsoft offered a cash option so not sure subsequent returns are relevant.

When it came out, PageRank was a really innovative way to order search results that cut through most of the "SEO" at the time, which was webpages doing lots of unsophisticated things to range well for a given topic (e.g., putting that topic in the <title> many times).

A bit tangential, but New York City has an operating steam system that's still widely used by commercial customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

Either reads fine to me.

I wouldn’t use this because it just seems like a hassle but how are 4 interest-free installments worse than paying upfront?

I’m unclear on Zip’s business model so appreciate I could be missing something here.

No, but you can hit it via after-tax 401k contributions and then convert those to a Roth IRA (i.e., Mega Backdoor Roth)

These are crude wells for which natural gas is just a byproduct. While crude can be stored in tanks near the wells and trucked intermittently to pipelines, the natural gas requires pipelines to the wellhead which may not be economic. Generally there isn’t a productive use of small quantities of natural gas in the middle of nowhere so it’s flared. The Bitcoin mining provides a “productive” use.

Here's a fun New Yorker article that takes this to an extreme: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w...

A sample: "It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array."

The big difference between typical pro races and the Olympics is that in the Olympics the riders don’t race with radios, which made this situation possible. In a typical pro race, the team director would be telling his riders there is still someone up the road.

Imported from where?

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is excellent.

Indeed. It was actually a great system that sat somewhere between email and IM in its usage on campus. The Windows and Mac clients had notifier processes that would signal the client to poll if the server alerted them to new messages. It made messages appear nearly instantly which they did not back in the POP/IMAP time-based polling days.

Back in '07, my school still used a custom email protocol called Blitzmail that verified the user by sending a random number, having the user encrypt the random number via DES using his password as the key and then send the result back. One problem (there were many) was that passwords were 8 characters and DES only wanted a 56-bit key so the protocol just dropped the least significant bit of each character. So while everyone thought they had one password, they really had 2^8 = 256 passwords, where 'b' and 'c' were interchangeable as were 'd' and 'e' and so on...

Now that was easy to crack.

The Post article is an op-ed, not something written by the editorial board. I’d prefer that newspapers feel free to publish a wide range of views without readers ascribing those views to the paper (I.e., the newsroom or editorial board).

No, a gamma squeeze works in the opposite way.

The retail investor gets long an option (let's say a put), and the dealer gets short that option. As the price goes down, the retail investor gets shorter (higher chance his put finishes in the money), whereas the dealer gets longer.

In general, retail investors don't hedge, whereas dealers do. As the stock price goes down, the dealer needs to sell stock to hedge and avoid getting net long the stock. Thus a gamma squeeze tends to exacerbate rather than mollify volatility.

It could be that 825GB is the typical marketing GB (i.e., 1000^3) and the 667GB is the OS reported GB (i.e., 1024^3). That difference only reduces the 825 "marketing" GB to 768 "real" GB. So still a 100GB of OS/system files, which seems large, as you say.

I was hoping for a cowsay for medical advice.

Yes, I was ignoring the fact that an options contract represents 100 shares as it needless complicates the point I was trying to make.

The Tour de France used this road in 1999 with predictable results: lots of crashes (https://www.procyclinguk.com/flashback-1999-tour-de-france/)

In the context of options, delta is the change in the option price divided by the change in the price of the underlying stock (i.e., the first derivative w.r.t. the stock price).

Gamma is how much the delta changes for a change in the underlying stock (i.e., the second derivative w.r.t. the stock price).

Market makers hedge their options positions by buying or selling the underlying stock so that they have no exposure to moves in the underlying stock (they are "delta neutral"). So if the delta at the current stock price is 0.50 and the market maker is short 100 call options, he will buy 50 shares. But options are non-linear and the delta changes with the stock price (again, this is what gamma is). If the stock moves up so that the delta increases to 0.60, the market maker will need to buy another 10 shares so that he owns 60 shares and is again delta neutral.

In this way, buying begets more buying and this is what people mean when they talk about a gamma "meltup".

#9 is one of my favorite beers so I was bummed to see the title of this HN post. Reading the article it sounds like production is just being moved to Rochester though.

Wow, the combination of those heavy metal blades and the sparsely placed safety bars definitely doesn't look finger friendly!

Probably the same reason that <b> (bold) and <i> (italics) aren't used anymore. There's now a clearer delineation between document structure (described via tags) and style (described via CSS) than there was in the earlier HTML specs.

What does the provided example do?

5) Surprising math:

int x = 0xfffe+0x0001;

This is a good question. The fact that people are not buying the May future at -$37/bbl and selling the June contract at $20/bbl tells you that Cushing storage must effectively be full and that the theoretical storage figures quoted in research are not practically usable (at least at short notice). It's very hard to imagine any practical means of storage that isn't wildly profitable to utilize for $57/bbl/month.

I thought this happened a week ago when they suspended the Candidates chess tournament.