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The first syllable is stressed in the US

I did this hike with some friends years ago. It can be wet, but it's a beautiful hike. You can camp on the beach and make fires every night. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a through hike with lots of terrain you can't access except by foot.

“removes the vast majority of the ME's software modules (including network stack, RTOS and Java VM)”

There’s a Java VM on these things?!

Update: This is wrong. Ignore it. The poison pill is not diluting any individual shareholder disproportionately. What it is doing is issuing the right to buy shares at a steep discount. For example, if shares of Company XYZ are currently trading at $50/share, the board would issue all the company's shareholders the right to buy stock at $25/share. Economically, everyone should exercise their rights since this is a good deal. The issue for the hostile bidder is that it can become quite expensive to actually fund the exercise price to maintain their ownership interest. The company now also has more cash and so purchasing all the remaining stock that the hostile bidder does not own will become more expensive/difficult.

I believe Microsoft offered a cash option so not sure subsequent returns are relevant.

When it came out, PageRank was a really innovative way to order search results that cut through most of the "SEO" at the time, which was webpages doing lots of unsophisticated things to range well for a given topic (e.g., putting that topic in the <title> many times).

Either reads fine to me.

I wouldn’t use this because it just seems like a hassle but how are 4 interest-free installments worse than paying upfront?

I’m unclear on Zip’s business model so appreciate I could be missing something here.

No, but you can hit it via after-tax 401k contributions and then convert those to a Roth IRA (i.e., Mega Backdoor Roth)

These are crude wells for which natural gas is just a byproduct. While crude can be stored in tanks near the wells and trucked intermittently to pipelines, the natural gas requires pipelines to the wellhead which may not be economic. Generally there isn’t a productive use of small quantities of natural gas in the middle of nowhere so it’s flared. The Bitcoin mining provides a “productive” use.