in this direction, you have to go back to 2016 when AWS boughtAnnapurna Labs, which would eventually become AWS Nitro.James Hamilton(whose work is high on my list of truly amazing things) posted a good video last week about the evolution of Silicon for AWS and its really worth watching be...
Surprisingly, Reznor's net worth is $70 million, which with all the different industries he's involved in, seem relatively modest. But Reznor has never chased the money, and is truly committed to the art itself. In fact, he's an outspoken critic of the music industry, which is why he'...
Do this lesson oncoins. This is American money. If you are in a different country, go get some coins and learn what they are. Organize them into piles, all the same kind in the same pile. Once we are adding together coin values, adding coins worth 1, 5, 10, 25 is useful in lots...
to announce and launch their project and raise substantial sums of money,wrongly led them to believethat they had built aVirtual Organization. And when it came time togovern in a real functioning organization, that’s whenVirtual Chaosset in. At which point, they realized thatthey were trying...
Kids + Money – Lauren Greenfield, USA, 2008 Killed – William E. Jones, USA, 2009 (film+book) Meditations on Revolution, Part IV: Greenville, MS – Robert Fenz, USA, 2001 Mobile Men – Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thaïland, 2008
50. ‘Pennies From Heaven’ (Herbert Ross, 1981) ‘You come out of the movies and the world’s changed,’ Steve Martin intones, and damn it if ‘Pennies From Heaven’ doesn’t prove him right. It’s a film that’s a little bit at war between its Edward Hopper-esque non-musical ...
the vast majority of Americans actually saw declines to their wealth. This is because the lower 93% of all households actually saw adecreaseto their net worth on average. But the remaining Americans, (the top 7%) saw their wealth grow by 28% during the same time, which pushed the national...
My favorite scene is the last scene of the final episode of Season 1 where Rip has the real estate developer strung up and tells him to tell Casey how he makes his money. He replies (paraphrased):“Raise taxes so no one can pay them, Come in and buy up the land for pennies on th...
It includes a chart to show why money launderers might like to create shells in Wyoming, Nevada or Delaware, which offer the highest levels of corporate anonymity. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTIONS This excerpt shows how huge this business already is — to the tune of billions of ...
Stocksare able to lose all their value in themarket, and have done so before, especially in the case of a bankruptcy. Even if a company does go bankrupt, in reality shareholders often do receive some residual payment back, but this is usually just pennies on the dollar. This fact should ...