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Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 56

I think in China accusing the person who sold you something of false advertising might get you thrown in jail for choosing to quarrel, unless it's really blatant.

If you're quarreling with an AI it might just make you look irrationally anti-social.

In the US the liability rests 100% on the company, and 0% on the salesperson, so AI or not doesn't change liability at all. Just like the salesperson being clueless (or not) rarely matters.

Comment Re: Dispicable (Score 2) 109

It's a bit more complicated than that. Here's a bigger quote (from the filing):

U.S. GAAP requires an evaluation of whether there are conditions or events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date the financial statements are issued. Initially, this evaluation does not consider the potential mitigating effect of management’s plans that have not been fully implemented. When substantial doubt exists, management evaluates the mitigating effect of its plans if it is probable that (1) the plans will be effectively implemented within one year after the date the financial statements are issued, and (2) when implemented, the plans will mitigate the relevant conditions or events that raise substantial doubt about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date the financial statements are issued.

As of the date of issuance of these financial statements, Kodak has debt coming due within twelve months and does not have committed financing or available liquidity to meet such debt obligations if they were to become due in accordance with their current terms. These conditions raise substantial doubt about Kodak’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Kodak’s plans to adequately fund its existing preferred stock and debt obligations when they come due are dependent on obtaining sufficient proceeds from the expected reversion of cash to the Company upon settlement of obligations under the KRIP to reduce the amount of the Term Loans and to (i) convert, redeem, extend or refinance the existing Series B Preferred Stock past the current mandatory redemption date of May 28, 2026, (ii) amend, extend or refinance the remaining outstanding Term Loans past the current maturity date of May 22, 2026, and (iii) replace collateral currently supporting the letters of credit issued under the L/C Facility Agreement. These plans are not solely within Kodak’s control and therefore are not deemed “probable” under U.S. GAAP.

In other words, there's no problem, but accounting rules require that they use these words. However, they do have a plan.

For context, S&P Global Market Intelligence rates their financial health at 57/100, on a scale where 50 means average. Their debt load isn't very high, and almost all of it is residual from covid-era losses.

It's just another horseshit story, probably written by somebody shorting the stock.

Comment Re:Some estimates (Score 2) 40

The article is paywalled, but you're not supposed to read media articles claiming to characterize research anyway.

The PNAS link does give the abstract.

One obvious detail is that this will be intravenous infusion, something that can be started in the field with emt's and paramedics

The first problem with your analysis is right here: "this will be."

Not at all. This is a mouse model study. As with the vast majority of mouse model studies, it will either not work in humans or not be safe in humans.

Comment Re: I call BS (Score 1) 178

It was an entry-level intern postion requring a PHD in related field

What the hiring manager knew and considered that you may not have is that the position would be raise over an academic post-doc research position.

"Intern" can mean a wide variety of things, from unpaid volunteer to a six figure assistant in a department where they have to evaluate your work before they can place you in a position. The latter is most common in areas where they need advanced workers but nobody has a degree in the specific thing they're doing; for example, hard drive research. It's an engineering job, except the knowledge needed is mostly held by people with physics degrees. Who may or may not be able to do engineering at all, depending on their personality.

Comment Re: I call BS (Score 1) 178

"Ghosting people" who applied to a job but aren't being selected for it has been the normal, most common state of affairs for at least the thousands of years that we have written records.

It's clearly not unethical, since it is the norm. (Look up what "ethics" actually means; I suspect you'd be surprised, and you thought it meant morally just.)

Gaming the hiring websites, posting fake listings, those are legit accusations of misconduct. But when you bundle them with normal behavior that you personally wish wasn't normal, it completely destroys your credibility as an accuser.

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