Would love if there were additional info on pricing (per pound, per metric), any sustainability issues (see Dark Waters for teflon [1]), and lastly ownership (are these patent protected, largest manufacthrers)
I would also really like some sort idea of just how easy or hard a material is to get odor out of.
For a while now now I’ve just had to have multiple backpacks and rotate through them when one becomes too fragrant.
If anyone has some guidance on how to get human ecology bacteria (i.e. that funky stank) out of synthetic materials that doesn’t result in smelling even worse of the cleaning agent, I’d love to hear it.
I haven't ever had an issue with stanky outdoors gear, but I've had luck removing stains from different gear by washing with either regular laundry detergent or "Oxygen-based cleaners" (oxiclean and knockoffs) as they have a different mechanism of cleaning, and drying in sunlight and fresh air.
As CEO you may want need to become familiar with the rules that govern insider information. Typically if you are a director you cannot trade the stocks you own based on material non-public information.
Also, you may want to read Matt Levine's newsletter. It has plenty of very weird examples that sound just like this.
As the article itself says, this almost certainly wasn't insider trading
> Virtually all of the sales were part of 10b5-1 plans, or prescheduled selling programs. It’s unclear how many of the sales were also linked to options exercises or options-related tax sales.
Verily has done a bunch of things, only a few of them really stuck around. Project Baseline (which pivoted from clinical to covid), Debug, a few spinoffs with other drug companies. Most stuff revolves around physical objects with sensors, intended for a mixture of lab and clinical settings. They make some software, for example Terra (a scientific research platform mostly for genomics/bioinformatics).
Calico does basic life science research and publishes it, https://calicolabs.com/publications and also has private partnerships. They are pretty secretive so it's hard to know but most of the research is about using mouse models to understand fundamental details of aging biology, the long game being to make Larry Page live forever.
While this may be the case for capital-intensive businesses (oil, consumer goods, energy), this is usually not the case for intangible-asset businesses (media, tech). In the former, the assets will generate cashflow, whereas in the latter it's a people-centric model
What was the last time you chose yahoo over google or altavista over google?
Google was always greedy, but when it was small it was cool to be the disruptor. Now it's perceived as only greedy. This is typically the case for any successful company (from HP, IBM, to the new 'big tech').
Good (related) book recommendation btw: capitalism without capital
“The percentage of stock borrowed by traders, a standard measure of short interest, has slumped to 1.1% of Tesla’s shares available for trading, according to IHS Markit Ltd. as of last Thursday. That’s the lowest since 2010, when the carmaker went public.”
I think there is an under-appreciated average search engine user in the comment:
People will typically write their intent on the search engine even when they could simply directly to the website.
Case in point: The top 10 bing searches are for websites, including FB, Google, Youtube [1]. This traffic is highly competitive and should (as in all competitive markets) be bid among competitors.
The address bar is the search bar. My wife never types "facebook.com". She types "facebook", gets the google search page, and then clicks on facebook from there. It pisses me off that if I start typing facebook, Chrome doesn't autocomplete to facebook.com. In contrast, if I'm in Safari, and type "n" I get "news.ycombinator.com" autocompleted.
Small business people in my area of UK have always done this, type in the box in the middle (usually Google, occasionally Bing or some other service). But my pretty tech-literate kids do it too, even when I show them how they 'should' do it and that is faster, and they don't need the extra click to get where they're going ... mad!
On Chrome on Win10 as I use at work though, typing in the address bar, with my settings, I get auto-fill of addresses (the history search is noticeably missing vs Firefox) including the option to use 'tab to search' on a domain.
> Hyperspectral imaging in the visible and near-infrared ranges initially seemed promising. Unfortunately, the black redaction ink absorbed almost all light in the visible range, and in the NIR range, the two inks were rendered largely transparent. They were too similar to draw any conclusive results. Pottier and his collaborators got the best results with X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy in a microscanning mode
Does anyone know what are the other use cases for these techniques? The article is very interesting! Thanks for sharing
Non-imaging X-ray fluorescence is one of the most common techniques for identifying the elemental composition of metal alloys, including both industrial metallurgy and verification of gold and silver coins in precious metals trading. Handheld XRF scanners are readily available but cost several thousand dollars.
