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Apparently there is a 1 year lock-up period for the sponsors & directors during a SPAC [1]

Which I guess means it's harder for e.g Social Capital to do a pump & dump (in the case of Clover they couldn't sell until June 2021 at the earliest)

[1] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/07/06/special-purpose-a...


It doesn't mean that he can't get a loan on those shares that are locked up.


> You mentioned that Spot is now robust enough to dance all day. How about Atlas? If you kept on replacing its batteries, could it dance all day, too?


That doesn't answer the question. Even Spot requires constant battery swapping to be able to function all day. Its battery life is measured in minutes, not hours.

The comment referred to robustness, not endurance.


Wow, that makes Omniverse II and other massive projects even more impressive...


Was very short-form but the mobile app Secret had a fair amount


I made https://lessnoise.net/, which recommends who you should unfollow on Twitter (right now it's very basic and just shows you who tweets the most out / is noisiest of everyone you follow)

Would love to hear any feedback!


Permitting sales of illegal drugs & services is a defining feature probably worth mentioning.


> then suddenly get an email that Google is discontinuing the product.

Google is unlikely to discontinue GCP


The list of discontinued things that people said that about is getting longer by the day. That's kind of the point here.


IMO: Outlook on iOS is a better email client than Apple Mail.


Gmail and Android can be considered moonshots, completely separate bets from the cash cow search product. They have both been enormously successful and been the starting point for new revenue lines (the whole GSuite for businesses, the Play Store)

Next moonshot which looks extremely promising is Waymo


And the NHS is the world's largest purchasers of fax machines in the world in 2017 http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Care-News/digi...


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