It was said the fact of a shutdown was not a huge exception in Norway, it had happened before. The fact that they couldn't just restart was. Just what I read.
There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an homage they may have used that internally instead.
The top voted alternative was "Issue 9" which served as a reference to Plan 9 and happened to be the actual issue number in the Go project on Google Code opened by the guy who's programming language (named "Go!") was already out there.
A coating for projectiles to be able to withstand the heat from laser weapons would be one with possibly significant impact, given recent announcements.
The initially-too-high offer plus downturn in his stock value right after, meant a deal structure that damn-near doomed the company anyway (tons of debt).
Best-case (for him), Twitter as we knew it dies and he manages to turn the burnt-down ashes into something profitable enough to overcome that hurdle. Twitter per se cannot reasonably get out of the hole he's dug for it.
Though, arguably, the brand itself was a huge part of the value, and he just threw that in the trash.
You know a guy's going down a weird path when all defenses of his behavior amount to "I know the last twenty things he's done have looked insane and none of it's made any money, but he's got a secret genius plan, I swear! 5D chess!"
This would explain things, if there was a credible suggestion for who's pulling the strings.
The theory of Elop destroying Nokia (consumer) makes sense, because he was at Microsoft, went to Nokia sold it to Microsoft at diminished value and stayed there for a good amount of time. But who would pay Musk for this? And how will he be compensated? Afaik, he's lighting a bunch of his own money on fire. Although, there has been a lot less news from him on Tesla and SpaceX, so maybe it was all a plan to keep him out of those spaces.
I've seen theories about Saudis paying for this in order to prevent the next Arab Spring, in which Twitter played a key role for the protesters to organize themselves. Seems a bit far-fetched, but these days, who knows?
The US is already there, with an almost brain-dead 90-year old Senator being as good as gone, so that a privately-owned company doing whatever its largest owner thinks fit for the good of the company going forward doesn't even get close to that.
It is scientific jargon, yes, though, hm, I would expect any high schooler if not even lower could make at least some sense out of a "spin period" (if not knowing earth rotates, everybody knows a spinner), magnetic field strength (again, compass), age (...)? Luminosity? Also at least the units seconds, years should be known, Gauss is also high school knowledge and straightforward to infer from magnetic.. that this is about some object in space if astronomers observed it is also crystal clear.
That's at least half of the sentence :), expectations much too high?
I’ll do you one better with less than half your verbiage. I understood all the following words (so, gasp, I lied!):
> Discovered in 2018, PSR J0026–1955 is a Galactic pulsar with a … of approximately 1.306 seconds and … measure of…. It has a … luminosity of …surface magnetic field strength of 770 billion …, and its … age is estimated to be some 47 million years.
Was about to say this. Kudos to them for actually conveying the information! They seem to have learned that what they're (partially) in the business of selling is long term trust.
