There's an interesting and detailed PDF linked from the first page that is packed with history and statistics about Russia's present and past manufacturing of missiles.
I'm interested in portfolio theory when I see something like this.
Let's say that the $1B is invested and reliably earns 8% when inflation is 3%, therefore leaving 5% to distribute as tuition. That's $50M for the first year, allowing for each following year to distribute 3% more than the previous year to account for inflation.
Tuition is $59K and there are 1,258 students [1], so the cost is $74M a year.
With my assumptions the endowment would slowly bleed away, but it would fund students for a long time. Perhaps less time, if the school added capacity. Or perhaps more time if there is some other endowment money or other funds from somewhere, or if not all 1,258 students get the benefit for whatever reason.
Whenever I read something like this, my jaded mind wants to think that the benefit being claimed is clearly not matched by the amount of money contributed. But in this case, the amount of money contributed is approximately the required amount of money needed to achieve the claimed benefit. So, good for Ms. Gottesman! She will have a good and achievable result.
I read a similar article a few years ago about Californians moving to Idaho. Californians were making Idaho even more red, because the ones that are moving are self-selected to be conservatives.
My favorite example in English is this sentence: "I peered at a pair of pears on the pier."
As a native speaker, the sounds in peer/pair/pear/pier are slightly but detectable different. But non-native speakers can almost never say or hear these differences.
I'm sometimes amazed by how many people work at some of these companies.
Nine percent is about 1,000 jobs. So, a back-of-the-envelope calculation implies that about 11,000 people work there. I don't doubt that running eBay is more complex than it appears, but it's just a web site to buy and sell goods. That's an army of people!
I remember being an electronics store once and seeing some cables intended for audio that described themselves as being "low oxygen" cables. My god, the nonsense that people fall for!
I have been using Optery (YC W22) and are happy with them. It's more money than I wanted to spend on this. But they have cleared my name out of more than a hundred sites.
The article linked here refers to ten data brokers. But there are far more than that that are handling and selling your data. There's no way you can delete your information from all of them without subscribing to a service to do it for you.
Along this topic, there is an interesting film called "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" [1] based on the true life story of Lee Israel [2], who forged letters from famous deceased writers and actors. She was eventually caught and plead guilty.
I used DJGPP quite a bit for several projects at work a few years ago. Worked really well. I was happy to use modern versions of C++ compilers for DOS apps.
A similar film is Silkwood, which is about the life of Karen Silkwood, who reported concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility where she worked. She was severely harassed by her employer and then died in a suspicious car accident.
The price of crypto coins (bitcoin, etc) is quite volatile. Stablecoins allow you to price products and services without caring about volatility of the currency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Roach_Underground