I wish our parties didn't view each other as opponents as much as collaboration partners ultimately responsible for the continued well being of the nation rather than only for their own political good.

One thing, discuss, vote.

No "hey if we give you this, you give us this." just simple "do most of us agree on this?" level politics.

That's real democracy, not the crap we have today.

-- this is me. I am seen.

LBOs can have other formats. Take Debt, assign debt to part of the company, auction off arms, legs, kidneys of company to pay off debt... you're left with a shell of your former company but a boatload of cash to pay off the debt and everyone gets their bonuses.

Unfortunately a lot of LBOs tend to result in job cuts. The Twitter deal was a bit of that sort of thing, and we all see where that went.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate)

This sort of acquisition is typically called an LBO or Leveraged Buy Out. The story gets into the details of key figures involved, including Henry Kravis who people today would better know for his private equity firm KKR.

Basic formula is raise cash using junk bonds, buy company, fix up company or kill off costs, use money company earns to pay debt, sell company. Since you have leveraged, your payout can be large.

It's a similar style financing activity to a house flipper. example: buy house for 1M, but pay $200K + 800K debt (mortgage). Fix up house, sell for $1.2M. Pay off $800K debt. You're left with $400K, or 100% return!

curious!

This is sort of why "brand" matters; it provides a source of trust.

Encyclopedia Britannica used to be that source of 'facts'. Then it became whatever page-rank told you. Eventually SEO optimization ruined that.

News stories are the same thing. For certain groups, they have their 'independent' publication whose reporting they trust.

Or that guy is just a really bad programmer.

So for ideas, sorry that’s going to be whatever floats your boat. You listed a bunch of different things.

But hobby is normally “playing softball” or “guitar”, but it could be “researching next gen PCs”… but that seems more like a PhD lab project.

There’s plenty of visual experiments of pianists doing this “rock band” “guitar hero” style visualization of notes.

Could anyone in legal chime in on the legality of now 're-implementing' this type of system inside other products? Or even just having an AI look at the architecture and implement something else?

It would seem given the source code that AI could clone something like this incredibly fast, and not waste it's time using ts as well.

Any Legal GC type folks want to chime in on the legality of examining something like this? Or is it liked tainted goods you don't want to go near?