Liu Malnati's or bust.

Word processor really does process your words.

Phones last for years, the latest features aren't worth upgrading for.. and we can use the chip capacity to build other things that are backed up.

Sounds like a win/win/win.

I wish I had mod points right now. I'm not sure if your comment is better moderated as funny or insightful.. equal shots of both.

I did now, thanks for the pointer!

Yeah.. that is annoying. But, that was the only thing.

I adopted this almost as soon as it came out and have loved it!

It's everything I wanted in a password manager without a gouging SAAS behind it. I'd gladly kick in a few bucks to support it, The prices the SAAS password companies want are stupid.

Works on all my computers and synchronizes, works on my phone, tablet.. they really did a nice job with it.

Exactly. Microsoft MIT licensed the thing, so there's nothing precluding a fork from enabling that feature for all IDEs and offering a competing build.

Yes, there are still some remnants of old Microsoft floating around in new Microsoft. Change doesn't happen instantly and occasionally old habits come back. But, the way they open sourced it ensured that at least for current versions, they can't go back on that if old habits come around again.

As a fairly regular user of C# on Mac and Linux, I'm thrilled with the progress they've made on the non-Windows platforms.

They bought high and the market tanked. They needed prices to be higher in order to get out without losing money.

So, they bought a metric boatload of call options.

Call options are a promise to be able to buy a particular stock at a particular price on some future day (expiration). The banks that sell them don't really mind buyers that pick up a few here and a few there. But, if lots of them are sold, then the banks end up in a large, risky position. On the expiration day, they might have to buy a boatload of that stock. Banks don't want to have to make huge buys under pressure. So, as the options are sold, they buy small positions in the stock to "cover" the calls they sold.

Softbank bought so many call options that the banks buying stock to "cover" their risk pushed up the whole market. Buying enough call options to move the S&P is a pretty impressive feat. Even more impressive considering how far they managed to move it (10%.. maybe more, we'll find out in the coming week or two).

I'm not a lawyer and honestly, I don't even think an actual securities lawyer could unwrap all the layers of what happened well enough to give a good opinion. This will all shake out over the next few weeks, it's going to be interesting to watch.

The NYSE didn't shrink because companies listed there moved to the Singapore or Shanghai exchanges. It shrunk because of LBOs and other privatizations.

There's a big difference between "any company can make it" and "this company has millions of doses sitting in a warehouse". The latter is what matters and they're the ones that had the fix in this deal from the start. You know this. Follow the money...

Everybody you mentioned was a pioneer in a new field that was created as the result of some kind of significant scientific or mathematical progress. Props to them for grabbing something and running with it. The reality now is that there just aren't new fields because we haven't had any major breakthroughs for quite a while.

The "major" things we talk about now:
VR? We're on about the third rehash of that. Not looking any more useful than the last two times.
AR? Kind of novel, but not really useful for anything.
AI? Do you mean the buzzword or actual ML?
  ML is slightly more useful due to GPUs, but it's still pretty much the same old stuff and not that smart.

When we have the next hard science breakthrough, like the quantum transistor, table-top fusion process or something like that, then we'll get another crop of pioneers.

Want a fix to your problem?

Get the hell out of California. The problem is that tech managers there want an army of child-less, life-less drones that will kill themselves for stock options. Come to Kansas, I'd kill for somebody with your experience and skill set. To top it off, after you sell your house there, I'd wager you could pay cash for 3x the square footage here and a better school system.