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Comment Re:Ohhhhh! (Score 5, Interesting) 104

Recipes were mostly complete before the internet was even invented

But the context around them has changed a lot. E.g.

1. Newer devices have made it easier to do certain sorts of cooking, but it needs to modify the recipe ever so slightly for best results. E.g. Microwaves have become more common, air fryers.

2. People doing 2 jobs in the last few decades are now not looking for BEST possible taste like the housewives of 1970s, but acceptable taste, hints at once a week meal prep work, and quick to make recipes.

3. Availability of different types of partially cooked, precooked etc. ingredients has changed. Spam, corned beef, certain sauces that were common earlier has now given way to a much wider variety of intermediate food ingredients. These need to be explained in the newer recipes in a new way.

4. Fusion. A lot more eastern spices are now available in the west, and western ones in the east. Many of them make sense in recipes from far away, if only one is ready for newer experiences. A recipe writer who has tried a few and suggests successful combination is far more important now than when the internet was invented in the 1950s.

Comment Re: Crrot and Stick (Score 1) 135

What happens if I loan you $100 with the expectation that you'll give me $110 in a year, but you spend it on beer instead and at the end of the year you give me $0?

Ha, I see you. Far before the end of the year you sell this "loan" to another smart guy, promising to give him $120 imaginary at the end of that year.

Comment Re:AI is a fraud until they get the I(intelligence (Score 1) 149

Despite the disdain for Windows by many slashdotters, if Microsoft were to vanish overnight, that would be a huge hit on the US, impacting both households and corporations that currently use Windows and would struggle to transition overnight to Linux. .

Microsoft vanishing and Windows vanishing are 2 completely different things.

Comment Re: Predictable (Score 1) 231

1. So first you admit that a premium on top of the "last traded price" is required for a buyout.

2. Even then, it is a buyout from a particular single entity or a consortium of entities that requires a "premium". When buying from the general public, an enormous premium will be required on top of the "last traded price". Including such a premium, the final price won't resemble the "last traded price" is what I have been saying. Some shareholders just aren't in the mood to sell. Some have forgotten that they have this share. If the share is part of an index, first it will have to be kicked out of the index otherwise a huge majority of "shareholders" won't know that they are shareholders.

Comment Re: Predictable (Score 1) 231

No, the point is that the price is heavily influenced by day traders - since last traded price is almost the definition of stock price. So even if day traders can't vote, the people who do vote need to please them day traders if these voters want their own long term shares to be priced high enough.

Now the position that multiplying last traded price by the number of shares gives anything resembling the actual value of a company makes no sense. But that is another topic.

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