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KennethSRoberts

> When did this happen? Why? Did people lose interest in actual news? Is there less actual news to report?

1. Search engines prioritized longer content.

2. People are less aware of longer-lasting events and most people land on news stories from social media as a one-off. The additional context is needed.

I use and love Brave (since beta). As usual HN making a bigger deal out of nothing. They gotta make money, and it's not like they are stealing from anyone else (replacing ref links).

Chill out.

By that logic, Google is aiding infringement.
Re:Tesla Q1 2020 Update on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:16PM (#23026813)
> Monday’s rally put Tesla’s market capitalization at $145 billion. Importantly for Musk, its stock market value reached a six-month average of $96 billion. Hitting a six-month average of $100 billion would trigger the vesting of the first of 12 tranches of options granted to the billionaire to buy Tesla stock as part of his two-year-old pay package.

> Each tranche gives Musk the option to buy 1.69 million Tesla shares at $350.02 each. Taking Monday’s Tesla closing stock price of $798.75 as an example, Musk could sell those shares for a profit of $758 million.

So it's $750m profit in each of the 12 tranches (assuming $TLSA holds)! That's nearly $9B in profit.

Maybe start by clicking the link?

> In a March 28 blog post, officials said that demand for its new Windows Virtual Desktop usage has grown by more than three times. They also said government use of public Power BI for sharing COVID-19 dashboads is up 42 percent in a week. (As is the case with Microsoft's overall cloud services figure, we don't have a base number for WVD and Power BI from which to calculate these percentages.)

Ask HN: (Non-execs) What do you use a remote/local personal assistant for?

I have some research tasks that come up (travel, books to read etc) every now and then that I'd like someone else to do for me, so I can spend my non-working hours relaxing. But that's sporadic and sparse.What else do you use a personal assistant for? I don't have a business so no major email/scheduling/data entry requirements. Maybe making/changing appointments with doctors? Sending gifts to...

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