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On the editor’s side, there was little incentive for adding high-level APIs needed for IDEs, because there were no potential providers for those APIs.

Why LSP?

matklad.github.io

Beijing locals have adapted to the proliferation of rules not with complete obedience, but discernment of which can be safely ignored. Northerners are thus often unruly.

2021 Letter | Dan Wang

danwang.co

But I think the real reason is that DWAC probably couldn’t have done this deal without lying. It’s not just that DWAC lied in its prospectus by saying it hadn’t had discussions with TMTG when it had. If it had told the truth — if it had said “we’re a SPAC that’s raising money to take Trump Media & Technology Group public” — it wouldn’t have been allowed to do its offering in the first place. A SPAC is supposed to be a blank-check company without any particular private company to take public. If you are raising money to take one particular company public, that’s not a SPAC. That’s just a regular initial public offering. You don’t just file for a blank check; you file for an initial public offering, with all of the regular disclosure about the company’s business and finances.

The APEs Can Be Saved

bloomberg.com

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