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This is one of the main things that happens in finance. It describes how companies work — they issue debt and equity, etc. — and your mortgage, and banks. In its purest form, where you just have some set of cash flows and you slice them up into junior and senior claims, it is often called “securitization,” or “structured finance.”
Money Stuff: Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings
Matt Levine
In the Supercloud both code and data are mobile and move around the network. Attach data to the code (such as with [Durable Objects](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-durable-objects); hello Actor model) and you have a foundation for applications that can scale to any size and move close to users as needed to provide the best performance.
Welcome to the Supercloud
The Cloudflare Blog
To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is:
- Composable
- Shareable
- Degrabable
- Learnable
- Semantic
- Grammatical
- Efficiently expressive
- Suggestive
- Intentional
- Legible
I can’t quite tell whether I’m trying to force together two concepts (notation and user interface) which are fundamentally different, or whether there is something fruitful in seeing them as aspects of the same thing.
Collecting My Thoughts About Notation and User Interfaces
interconnected.org
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