BEg2 chapter 4 odds & ends (3rd & last) Deep Archer

[Mark Kohut]

....."Professionally Deaf & Dumb".....I think.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:08 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> “The game is just a promotional freebie,” Vyrva frowning cute-apologetic.
> “Our product is still totally DeepArcher?”
>           “Which is  . . .”
>          “Like ‘departure,’ only you pronounce it DeepArcher?”
>
> “Zen thing,” Maxine guesses.
>
>   “Weed thing. Just lately everybody’s been after the source code—the feds,
> game companies, fuckin Microsoft? all have offers on the table? It’s the
> security design—like nothing any of these people’ve ever seen, and it’s
> makin them all crazy.”
>
> “So, today you were out scouting your next round? Who’s the lucky VC this
> time?”
>   “Can you keep a secret?”
>      “What I do. Professionally D and D.”
>
>
> - I’m stumped. Discreet & ?
>
>
>
> “Maybe,” Vyrva considers, “we should pinkie-swear?”
>    Maxine patiently holding out her pinkie, hooking it with Vyrva’s and
> obtaining eye contact, “Then again—”
> [This is Vyrva having qualms?]
>
> “Hey, if you can’t trust another Kugelblitz mom?”
> [This is Maxine, “overcoming objections?”]
>
>          So, with the usual caveats, Maxine keeps her other hand in her
> pocket with fingers crossed as she solemnly pinkie-swears.
>
> - oh, Maxine!
>
>
> “I think we got a preempt today? Even back at the height of the tech
> bubble, this would be awesome money? And it’s not a VC, it’s another tech
> company? Big deal this year down in the Alley, hashslingrz?”
>
>   Whoopwhoopwhoop.
>
> [Danger, Will Robinson]
>
> “Yeah . . . think I’ve . . . heard that name. That’s where you were today?”
>  “All day down there. I’m still, like, vibrateen? He’s a bundle of energy,
> that guy.”
>   “Gabriel Ice. He’s made you a big offer to buy, what, this source code?”
>
>  Ear to shoulder, one of those long West Coast shrugs, “He sure came up
> with a impressive piece of change from someplace? Enough to rethink the
> IPO? We already put the red herring on indefinite hold?”
>
>
>  Red herring - preliminary prospectus
>
> https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/redherring.asp
>
>
> (Skipping a bit)
>
> “All they want is, there’s a part about getting somewhere without leaving a
> trail.
>             The content, they could care less. It isn’t about the
> destination or even the trip,
>             really, not for these jokers.”
>
>
>          Maxine is much too familiar by now, even God forbid intimate, with
> this cover-your-tracks
>             attitude. Next it morphs from innocent greed into some
> recognizable form of fraud.
>             She wonders if anybody’s ever run a Beneish model on
> hashslingrz, just to see how
>             ritually slaughtered the public numbers are. Note to self—find
> the time. “This DeepArcher,
>             Vyrva, it’s what—a place?”
>
>
>          “It’s a journey. Next time you’re over, the boys’ll give you a
> demo.”
>
>
> Beneish model -
> https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/beneishmodel.asp
>
> The Beneish model is a mathematical model that uses financial ratios and
> eight variables to identify whether a company has manipulated its earnings.
> It is used as a tool to uncover financial fraud
> <https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fraud.asp>.
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