There were no companies, as that would require private ownership of factories and other means of production. As the article says these were built in state owned factories. There were no other kinds.
There were no other factories and even small business was mostly nonexistent until the late 80s and in some cases punishable under the law as “speculation”.
The government very clearly provides for support for the equities in many ways (which I’m sure you’re aware of) How do the following not count as benefits to the equities in your vault?:
1. Maintaining a navy that reduces piracy enough to have global JIT delivery networks that reduce costs for corps
2. Protects corp interests abroad allowing a larger market and higher profits
3. Enforces regulations that attract a larger than otherwise likely share of people to put their money in the stock market, increasing the value of your equities.
I love the fact that a large portion of medicine is basically debugging and reverse engineering as a profession.
It seems to be a good time in the debugging of these complex pathways as there's another, related avenue of signal manipulation research that may lead to scar-less tissue healing (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6540/eaba2374)
At first I thought it was yet another experiment that generates nonsense papers to show which journals will accept just about anything, but after running a quick search on some of the authors (https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Massimo+Fioranelli) seems like some sort of academic SEO/backlink/reference/paper mill operation going on?
Would be fascinating to map the cross referencing and co-author graph here.
That part is not as weird as it seems. It's not unheard of for VCs who are looking to maintain a relationship with a startup to provide an introduction even before investing as a gesture of good faith. Also, to clarify, the call was just a regular VC chat, the customer intro came later.
Granted that's usually the case when there's a competitive fundraising round that's coming up but it still not completely crazy.
I usually bring up this research when talking about employee onboarding but there was a study done in 2015 (with Mozilla) that showed a “good first issue” approach didn’t actually lead to the intended outcome - having more folks successfully integrate into and continue to contribute to a project over a long term. To my knowledge there hasn’t been a ton of follow up or replication but still something to consider.
Not only is the translation of a surprisingly high quality, but reading the original in Russian is more awkward since a lot of the technical terms are originally English. I needed to read a particular portion 3 times before I realized it meant memory allocation.
There were no other factories and even small business was mostly nonexistent until the late 80s and in some cases punishable under the law as “speculation”.