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“If I asked you how a restaurant was and you replied with ‘bimyou,’ I’m not going there. If I gave you a gift and you called it ‘bimyou,’ I’d think: ‘Great, she hates this gift.’”
The Good, the Bad, and the Bimyou
foreignpolicy.com
Why the Tilde Is Used to Represent the Home Directory
In the 1970s, the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal was in widespread use. On the ADM-3A keyboard, the tilde shared the same key as the Home key.
Small, Sharp Software Tools
Brian P. Hogan
Why would this work? Why would the sliced-up claims (senior bonds, junior bonds, shares) be worth more ($105) than a single unitary claim ($100)? There is a famous theorem saying that it shouldn’t work, that the value of the cash flows shouldn’t depend on how you slice them up. But of course people do slice them up. At least sometimes, it seems, there is more demand for a very safe cash flow plus a very risky cash flow than there is for a single blended kinda-risky cash flow.
Slicing Cash Flows for Better Ratings
bloomberg.com
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