I'm not too sure about the paper quality/weight/foldability tradeoff, but I appreciate the fact that it's really light and I can just fold it in half and stuff it into my inside jacket pocket and go out and read it over coffee.
It might depend on the CI process. If the CI is only run on the tip of the branch being merged, then the PR should squashed, otherwise if a rollback it required, it would be possible to rollback to a commit that was not tested by CI. Unless there is a list of 'known good commits' somewhere.
I wonder how those mistakes were caught - I guess it is hard for them to track since they seem to rely on news reports.
If it is usually some audit firm, seems like it is working somewhat as intended, at least in the business related ones. - in other cases like research it might be important enough to hire an audit firm to verify your spreadsheet model/data provenance.
+1, played when I was a kid, picked it up again a few months ago for nostalgia, I must say it holds up really well. It’s feels well-constructed, put together from simple concepts/components, in a way that makes it quite replayable. Many decisions have big-ish consequences, and there is not too much micro managing, unless you play really big galaxy and want to exterminate everyone. Very tight UI as well for the era. I like it much better than Moo2. I only wonder what would have to be different if there was multiplayer.
Options usually have an expiry when granted, i.e. they need to be exercised (employee pays cash at the strike price for it) before the expiry.
You need to pay capital gains tax when the gains are realized, I.e. at exercise.
I’m just speculating here but I think the problem is that the value of Airbnb stock has increased so much that the taxes due on the capital gain large enough that these option holders can’t afford to pay it without a liquidity event e.g IPO, where they could just sell the acquired stock to pay taxes.
So these early employees that were compensated in options are in this weird place where they can’t afford to exercise and are short on luck if their options expire before an IPO.
Also if you leave the company, your options usually expire some time after (perhaps 90 days?). I think that’s why some employees are complaining the lack of an IPO prevents them from moving on.
I presume later employees are conpensated in Restricted Stock Units which don’t have this problem.
It's been a long time since I've looked into this, but things like this generally are regulated (in the US). The sweepstakes promoter generally must post the odds of winning, and can't actually require a purchase of a product to enter (though you might need to pay return postage and wait 2-4 weeks for the free entry option). Some states have stricter requirements and you'll often see nationally advertised sweepstakes specify that they're not offered to residents of those states.
It was regulated in the sense that it gave the odds of winning, just as how lootboxes/gacha mobile games just now are giving drawing odds (since there is starting to be a crackdown on those).
