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Visual Basic doesn't include a Bold statement and function. Instead, there's a property named Bold . (A property is usually an attribute of an object, such as its size, its color, or whether or not it's bold.) Bold is a property of the Font object. Likewise, Font is a property of the Selection object that returns a Font object.
Conceptual Differences Between WordBasic and Visual Basic
docs.microsoft.com
The FTX situation is not the same, but it rhymes. The role of TerraUSD — the “debt” — is played here by FTX’s customer balances; the role of Luna — the backing token — is played by FTT and SRM. In both cases, confidence in the business collapsed, and it turned out that the debt was actually backed by nothing.
FTX’s Balance Sheet Was Bad
bloomberg.com
Many upstream projects find it easier to bundle or “vendor” dependencies, but for Debian, this means that there can be many copies of some popular libraries. When there is a need to fix a security or other severe problem in such a library, Debian would have to find all copies to fix them.
Why Is Debian the Way It Is?
blog.liw.fi
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