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  1. May 2023
    1. Bond

      A bond is a fixed-income instrument that represents a loan made by an investor to a borrower (typically corporate or governmental). A bond could be thought of as an I.O.U. between the lender and borrower that includes the details of the loan and its payments. Bonds are used by companies, municipalities, states, and sovereign governments to finance projects and operations. Owners of bonds are debtholders, or creditors, of the issuer.

  2. Sep 2022
  3. Jul 2022
    1. Speculation, herd exuberance, irrational optimism, rent-seekingand the temptation o f fraud drive asset markets to overshoot andplunge - which is why they need careful regulation, something Ialways supported. (M arkets in goods and services need lessregulation.)
  4. Aug 2021
    1. Dungless is another GameMaker Studio asset flip from serial copy+paste infringers, Imperium Game. All these guys do is rip off game templates and projects from the Yoyogames/GameMaker Studio store and try to scam people into paying for someone else's work on Steam.This time they've ripped off a basic template for a 2D retro pixel platformer/brawler. In line with this asset flipping behaviour, the game was dumped immediately at launch into DailyIndieGame shovelware bundles.In line with dishonest asset flippers, this has a number of fake positive reviews from compromised accounts, all in the same broken English. Even if this wasn't just an asset flip, it would be garbage. Impossible to recommend.
  5. Jul 2021
    1. BlackRock employs a stable of former policymakers, underscoring the importance the company occupies in both financial and policymaking ecosystems, in something akin to a shadow government entity.[157] Good government groups have documented 118 examples of “revolving door” activity by the company—cases in which a government official joined BlackRock’s roster, or vice versa.[158] In one particularly troubling example of how Washington’s revolving door operates, in 2017, a former BlackRock executive was put in charge of reviewing the FSOC’s work for the Treasury Department.[159] Unsurprisingly, the Department’s conclusion was that FSOC should “prioritize its efforts to address risks to financial stability through a process that emphasizes an activities-based or industry-wide approach,” the company’s preferred position.[160] This conclusion all but ensures that BlackRock will not be designated for greater regulation by the FSOC under the Trump administration.

      To Big To Fail? Above The Law? Shadow Government?

      The term "shadow government" comes up often when investigating Revolving Door partnerships between corporations and former government policymakers. One particular public corporation, BlackRock Investments is the poster child of revolving door activity and comparisons to a shadow government.

      BlackRock is front and center in the manipulation of todays Real Estate bubble.

      BlackRock should be marketed as;*The Largest Asset Manager and Keeper of The Neo-liberal Flame; We Kill Children to Make You Money and We Enjoy Doing It!*

  6. May 2021
    1. Are you also tired and fed up with the bulkiness of jQuery, but also don't want to have to type document.querySelector("div").appendChild(document.createTextNode("hello")); just to add some text to an element?

      happy middle/medium?

  7. Apr 2021
    1. This looks and feels like an Unreal Engine asset flip, where they slapped together a bunch of assets from the Unreal store and tried to call it their own game. Many of the game assets are very low quality. It's buggy and incomplete. That didn't stop the shady devs or their publishers from selling this in game bundles as a complete product. Extremely dodgy behavior there! Regardless, the (terrible) quality of this "game" speaks for itself. Impossible to recommend.
    1. Nothing but a lazy asset flip from the Unity Asset Store:https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/sky-flight-full-game-template-113460And yeah, the developer bought a low poly winter landscape as well. Buy two asset kits, replace above asset kit for gameplay and then replace the map with a new winter low poly asset map to try and "hide" the laziness and using asset kits. SMH.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJPJqok8iecExport, change the name to "Bird" and ready for Steam in less than 10 minutes of work! The developer couldn't even be bothered to make a way to EXIT the game much less add Steam high scores, controller support, or achievements! NOT RECOMMENDED! *Refunded this myself* ..Let your wallet talk and Please don't support lazy developers like this one.
  8. Mar 2021
    1. A cryptoasset is a digital asset that uses cryptography, a peer-to-peer network, and a public ledger to do three things: To regulate the creation of the units, to verify transactions and to secure these transactions without any middleman.

      crypto asset def

  9. Feb 2021
    1. we failed, mostly because they could not understand our non-asset-based business model or grasp that a small company from the region could actually compete with the giants of the industry
    1. For the director, an important mo-ment of the film is when Giles draws with new inspiration when he meets the monster.
    2. ‘I envisioned him emerging from the pool [...] We wanted him to look as if he were emerging in front of the sun figure on this temple’

      god like rising figure

  10. Jan 2021
    1. § 3-55. City Council may authorize sale or lease The City Council shall have the exclusive power to authorize sale or lease of any real or personal estate belonging to said City, and all conveyances, grants, or leases of any such real estate shall be signed by the Mayor and sealed with the City seal.

      Burlington

      Sale or lese of city assets

    1. Alternatively, you can build a custom icon system from existing icon libraries. To save on load times and improve performance, I would recommend always creating icon systems that include only the icons that you will use. If you’re only using 10 of them throughout your site, there is no good reason to link to the entire Fontawesome library of icons.
  11. Nov 2020
    1. Microbundle also outputs a modern bundle specially designed to work in all modern browsers. This bundle preserves most modern JS features when compiling your code, but ensures the result runs in 90% of web browsers without needing to be transpiled. Specifically, it uses preset-modules to target the set of browsers that support <script type="module"> - that allows syntax like async/await, tagged templates, arrow functions, destructured and rest parameters, etc. The result is generally smaller and faster to execute than the esm bundle
  12. Oct 2020
    1. Perhaps we should detect URLSearchParams objects differently (using duck typing detection instead of instanceof window.URLSearchParams, for example) but the solution isn't adding a specific polyfill to Axios (as it'd increase the bundle size and still won't work with other polyfills).
  13. Sep 2020
    1. Many people recently are complaining about bundler performance. But I don’t think any tool is going to solve performance problems. Bundlers can try innovative ideas such as multi-threading and improved caching, but you’re always going to hit a limit. If you’re having performance problems, it’s more likely because you’re not keeping tabs of what you’re importing, and haven’t considered splitting your project into multiple projects.
    1. This is a demonstration of building a custom D3 4.0 bundle using ES2015 modules and Rollup. Custom bundles can be optimized to contain only the code you need. This example exposes just three fields on the d3 object: d3.event, d3.select and d3.selectAll. The minified and gzipped bundle is only 3,691 bytes, a savings of 93% over the default build!
    1. If we compile our empty component and bundle it with Svelte internals, it ends up being 2,080 bytes uncompressed, and 1,043 bytes gzipped. So the overhead for using Svelte ends up being only a kilobyte. Compare that to other frameworks that require 10x or 100x that many bytes just to mount an empty component!
  14. Aug 2020
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  17. Feb 2018
    1. Center of Excellence

      Join the Center of Excellence. It is designed to help you improve your practice of Integrated PM through:

      • Collaboration
      • Training
      • Shared Assets
      • Knowledge Management
      • While helping you overcome change adoption hurdles

      https://youtu.be/z-2pXcwUv9Q

  18. Jul 2014