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US Considered Blasting Alternate Suez Canal with 520 Nuclear Bombs in '60s
Re:Category Theory: Orders
on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:39AM (#26661856)
Is there a somewhat longer (maybe illustrated) example of this principle somewhere? You've captured my interest and I want to read more
Re:Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not...
on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:36AM (#26661808)
Ubiquiti is publicly traded and operates in many states with privacy laws. I wonder if the SEC or states' AGs will get involved
Re:One of World’s Greatest Hidden Fortunes Is Wiped Out in Days
on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:02AM (#26661302)
> Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are now at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time -- a multibillion-dollar fiasco involving secretive market bets that were dangerously leveraged and unwound in a blink.
> One part of Hwang’s portfolio, which has been traded in blocks since Friday by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co., was worth almost $40 billion last week. Bankers reckon that Archegos’s net capital -- essentially Hwang’s wealth -- had reached north of $10 billion. And as disposals keep emerging, estimates of his firm’s total positions keep climbing: tens of billions, $50 billion, even more than $100 billion.
> It evaporated in mere days.
This is the primary gist of the article. The future will tell
Unbury.me – A Loan Calculator to Become Debt Free
Some first numbers on how Google News Showcase is working
Re:Sublime Text 4 [video]
on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:06AM (#26647468)
Sublime Text has never crashed on me (or been slow) and that's why I use it as my primary tool. VSCode is still slow for me, last I checked.
How to start or flip an open access journal: Academic-led publishing primer
Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:36PM (#26643245)
The same thing happened on the other relevant post about an hour ago. Here was my recent comment on that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642757
Re:U.S. human rights report documents China's genocide in Xinjiang
on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:03PM (#26642757)
I'm surprised by the number of comments here purporting to call this information fake, or attempting to redirect the blame toward the US. This has been well documented by multiple sources for nearly two years. The world has many problems but genocide is decidedly one of the worst.