How does this deal get made unless someone at HP owes some humane investor a favor?

it depends on how much money they had left in the bank. they raised $230m and are being acquired for $116m

highly unlikely they spent all of it. If they spent 130 million dollars, for example, they'd have $100m in the bank and this $116m txn is net $10m acquihire.

Financially, this probably didn't cost HP much yet. The real cost is whatever they approved for this team to build next, which will likely be a money pit.

M&A whizzes make fancy PowerPoint presentations on "synergy" potential to various suitors in a roadshow.

at this point I just assume it's a given that he's tweeting misleading information. it seems like he removes all attempts removing community notes on himself as well. I just don't think the lay person on twitter, which is dumber than a an average layperson, can learn these things in 1 graph or 200 chars.

It seems like the the first response must get chosen a majority of the time just to account for friction

Photography is theft, especially when taken via point-and-shoot camera. Landscapes need to be painted, portraits need to be sketched etc. Art via photography is 'find and take'.

bots, perpetual scams, enshittification, walled gardens, ai slop make me think things were better back in the day objectively content wise. no doubt the speed and general base tech has improved though

it's really not. the instant some insider starts selling the price will crash instantly dropping the price for other buyers. theres probably some momentum calculation when that happens but its not 25B

80% of the pool is was allocated before the public was able to buy. In 3 months, about 30% of the coins will vest. I assume that 30% is held by Trump and his inner circle. Once they sell in 3 months the price will crater and people will panic.

I'm not more knowledgable, so I looked it up.

Trading is well underway, already up over 2000%.

With each Trump coin now worth almost 9 US pennies.

Just about a tenth of a dollar but not quite.

For recent quotes:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/trump-coin/

Wrong sh*tcoin.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/

Thanks for that correction.

I must say, a much more disappointing performance :(

the 5% who didn't watch enough MMA or improve their PR in the deadlift

Dont bring deadlifts into this

webrings used to be the essence of the internet. And then somebody business minded decided why should I help ANY other website.

I'm pretty much full time on cursor from vscode. I don't trust it for big code blocks, but a control-k + reasonable command (I could have typed up myself) is saving me quite a bit of time.

all the "creative" gen ai does a thing worse and more annoying than what exists now. the first computers did calculations faster and faster with immediate utility (for defense mostly)