Arbitrary Aardvark

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

https://80dayspodcast.com/

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Monday, September 16, 2019

elon musk suggested reading

The list:

"A Game of Thrones" (5 Book Series) by George R. R. Martin
"If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life" by Stephen Webb
"Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence " by Max Tegmark
"Das Kapital" by Karl Marx
"The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
"Atlas Shrugged " by Ayn Rand
"The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself" by Sean Carroll
"Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts" by Samuel Beckett
"The Machine Stops " by E.M. Forster
"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
"Culture" (10 Book Series) by Iain M. Banks
"Dune" (6 Book Series) by Frank Herbert
"Daemon" by Daniel Suarez
"Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era" by James Barrat
"Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" by Nick Bostrom
"Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines" by Dieter K. Huzel & David H. Huang
"Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" by Robert K. Massie
"Screw Business As Usual: Turning Capitalism into a Force for Good" by Richard Branson
"Lying" by Sam Harris
“Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down” by J.E. Gordon
“Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” by Walter Isaacson
“Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness” by Donald L. Barlett
“Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age” by B. Carlson
“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
“Lord of the Rings” series by J. R. R. Tolkien
“The Foundation Series” by Isaac Asimov
“The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert Heinlein
“Stranger in a Strange Land” by Robert Heinlein
“Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants” by John D Clark

# posted by gt @ 22:20

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herm

# posted by gt @ 10:40

Friday, September 06, 2019

An anonymous reader shares a report:The secretive Israeli spyware company NSO Group gained notoriety following allegations that its hacking tool Pegasus was used by governments like Saudi Arabia and Mexico to track dissidents and journalists. A few months later, the company was acquired for $1 billion by its cofounders Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie alongside the private equity firm Novalpina Capital. To get that deal done, the founders raised money through a debt offering led by Credit Suisse and Jefferies. The banks reportedly struggled to sell the debt due to ethical concerns, but in the end it found buyers in mutual funds including BlackRock and Principal Financial Group, as well as collateralized loan obligation (CLO) management firms Ellington Management Group and Saratoga Investment Corp. Why would so many financial institutions align themselves with a company with a contentious reputation? NSO Group is high growth, and it's wildly profitable, according to a person who saw the debt offering circulated by the company earlier this year who shared its contents with Business Insider. And it did that all with just 60 customers.

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