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.
Readit Newsfreefal commented on West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile hike in Vancouver Island (2021) dquach.com/2021/08/01/wes... · Posted by u/palidanx
freefal commented on Disabling the Intel Management Engine wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User... · Posted by u/metadat
“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?!
Dumb legal question:
Why can a poison pill dilute away a single shareholder’s stake, but doing some scheme where 51% of the shareholders dilute away the stake of the remaining 49% is illegal?
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.
freefal commented on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zegl
Yahoo actually returned more than Microsoft for a while, up until about 2017, thanks to their huge stake in Alibaba. Twitter doesn't have that tho, they're entirely tied to their mediocre product.
Killing Vine was the dumbest thing they ever did.
I believe Microsoft offered a cash option so not sure subsequent returns are relevant.
freefal commented on Reddit can't build a better search engine ruky.me/2022/02/17/reddit... · Posted by u/rukshn
> I was too young to use Google when it first got started, but according to many, in the beginning, Google had better or more accurate search results. One reason for this was the fact that most of the sites back then were indie websites, which did not care about SEO and money and created websites for sharing information.
> But I think all can agree that Google results reduced when people started to game the algorithm and create search engine optimized garbage websites.
Well not quite.
There were piles of SEO crap sites being produced in 2001. Google used to manage to react to any new exploit and improve their results. They actively fought that battle for at least a decade or so. They used to win.
It is only more recently that they seem to have given up.
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).
freefal commented on Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage canarymedia.com/articles/... · Posted by u/rwmj
In early 20th century in London there was an alternative hydraulic "power grid" with plants (aka pumps), storages and an underground distribution network of pipes. A building, for example, could connect to high pressure water mains and use it to power elevators. Electricity eventually won, but it's interesting to see an idea coming back.
Zeppelins next!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Hydraulic_Power_Company
A bit tangential, but New York City has an operating steam system that's still widely used by commercial customers.
freefal commented on How are Rome's monuments still standing? bbc.com/travel/article/20... · Posted by u/clouddrover
Surely it should be "why are Rome's monuments..." Or am I mistaken, I'm not actually sure
Either reads fine to me.
I live in the UK, where the stress is placed on the first syllable: ANch'vy.
However, I'm originally from Australia, where the UK pronunciation seems to be an 'old money' thing, and most Australians put the stress on the second syllable: anCHOvy.