At the same time, the end of the Soviet Union also saw the wildest conspiracy theories uncritically adopted by the population.That’s what a breakdown of trust in the state looks like. People believe nothing, and then they’ll also believe anything.https://t.co/3num0vr5n8 https://t.co/ppUOlK2G3q ...

At the end of the Soviet Union, all the secrets came out.The gulag was real, and the cancelled Solzhenitsyn was vindicated. The USSR really had murdered Poles at Katyn, while blaming it on the Nazis. Millions of innocents truly had been liquidated by Lenin and Stalin. And Chernobyl was indeed a coverup.Everything everyone had darkly suspected to be true was confirmed, and then some. The consequence was the meltdown of a nuclear-armed superpower. It lost its European satellites, and its overseas military bas ...

Think of this as a game of regulatory limbo where you stay below the line of what an acquisition is.It’s a licensing deal.It’s only 49%.It’s a dividend.It’s all the personnel, but temporarily.And so on. You see the line, and you stay on the right side of the line. https://t.co/KeuBHKWdSvAntoun Nabhan (@AntounNabhan):@balajis You mean “license” the assets. Outright asset acquisition is a typical M&A. ...

Can I clarify something?Google actually is acquiring Windsurf. But the new mechanism to do this which doesn’t run into bogus “antitrust” objections is to buy the assets rather than the company.Like all these other deals. Investors still get paid and employees still get an exit.Deva Hazarika (@devahaz):Welcome Windsurf to this list of totally serious independent companies https://t.co/JfJ4xLM9hS ...