1118/1025 yields the multiplication factor, not the relative difference which is 9%.

I have no way of predicting Snap’s future, but I am certain that tomorrow, the founders and VCs will take hundreds of millions off the table through share sales, the investment bankers will earn fat fees, ditto the deal lawyers, some people will buy in hoping for a quick buck on a first-day big pop, and founders and VCs all around will be looking for increased pre-IPO valuations. That’s what this show is, and the rest is just speculation.

Of course you have the right not to tip, it's optional after all, but many people do choose to give tips, and then the question is whether part of the tip is being skimmed off by Instacart.

Restaurants have paid large fines under the Fair Labor Standards Act for tip skimming; I have no idea if FLSA applies here, but if a consumer chooses to tip, s/he has a reasonable expectation that the money will be going to the person providing the service and not to the person's employer.

That was the motto on the Washington family coat of arms before he was born. It's a quote from Ovid.

Taiwanese companies such as Foxconn with extensive operations on the mainland may be particularly vulnerable if the Trump government insists on making the one China policy a bargaining chip in trade negotiations. We’ll see how it all plays out, but the worst case would obviously impact Apple and a few other US tech companies.

The “optimized” functions have a bug when the number of remaining bytes is less than the block size.

Certainly possible, but are you looking at the excerpts in his blog post, or the actual code that he links to? https://github.com/lemire/despacer/blob/master/include/despa...

I always thought "fired" was the ambiguous word, because a firing can be with or without cause. A layoff is always without cause. In common usage, though, to contrast with "layoff", saying "I was fired" usually means "with cause."

Because of that, this headline actually feels like incorrect usage: a company wouldn't "fire" 41% of its staff unless they were all engaged in some secret after-hours lab-equipment smuggling ring (and probably not even then.)

The egregious misuse of the word "laid off" and "fired", continues to prevail. I suspect, their doing it on purpose, to get more click throughs.

Perhaps as a proof of concept they can do a native implementation of GNU grep in Haskell and publish some timing stats.

Apple's OS of that era was still single-threaded and an antique next to Windows. NeXT gave them a modern OS. Performance was falling further and further behind Intel-based systems. NeXTSTEP ran on Intel, Sparc and PowerPC. And most of all, NeXT gave them Steve Jobs.

The article specifically mentions commercial bank lenders, which are regulated. While I'm sure there are non-bank lenders in this space, a commercial bank can't delay repayment without a charge to the loan-loss reserve, and taking stock in lieu of payment, unless the stock is good as cash, is also a loan impairment. Unregulated commercial lenders have more freedom, but they are also constrained by GAAP.

So they take a hit on the loan value which their funders might expect give tge returns they aim to produce.

Junk bonds are nothing new.