Do you think they’d be able to understand Shakespeare? Or a spell book from the same time as Shakespeare?
The bigger question is, do they need to understand Shakespeare?
Shakespeare is important in UK Muggle culture, not so much elsewhere, including the wizarding world which very much has their own cultural icons.
They probably aren't getting their spells from books that old either. The reason we don't transpose Shakespeare to modern language is the loss of artistic intent in the process. Something that wouldn't apply to purely factual books like a spell book.
Besides, they are expected to learn Latin; that's where their spells come from.
What goes on in college is very different from what goes on in employment.
In college it is often enough to just have functional code with a few comments. Not in the enterprise. You need to be able to follow coding standards, make sure your code can be followed by your peers and understand why things are done a certain way. Last time I was in uni, they didn't teach any of that stuff.
Feminism is something with many internal factions. But yeah, the loudest ones aren't usually interested in genuine discourse. Some of those factions can act every bit as unhinged as 'persecuted' Christians about total non-issues, like Oscars nominations despite womankind as a whole having some very real issues to worry about.
Imagine you get back after a long, hectic, infuriating day. You hear your car beep for fuel so you pull into a gas station.
You get out and you go through the motions of filling up your car. It is such a usual procedure you don't have to think any more. Which is good because you're using that time to think of choice words to describe your asshole boss.
You go into the station, pay and come back, still very much on autopilot while you think about your boss.
Except there's one motion you didn't go through. And now it haunts your gas tank forever. Until you take it off.
Do you happen to know why he wouldn’t have executed the options before this suit?
It's Elon. There are a wealth of possible reasons, ranging from actually reasonable to 'it sounded better in my head'. Elon can be kinda erratic in his judgement sometimes.
One possibility is that he may have been attempting his usual market manipulation shenanigans; he is quite blatant about using his cult of personality for this. Wherever he publicly goes in the market, he is followed by millions of worshipping fanboys. They raise the price, he executes, pretty much instant profit right there.
He could also be thinking the price would plummet below the contract price (or that he could make it do so then raise it again).
Or maybe he didn't like the fact that he'd have to hold them for 5 years before being able to do what he wanted with. Elon is not known to simply abide by trading regulations.
Maybe he wanted a tax write off?
Or he could have simply forgot.
The only real benefit to Elon is that he didn't have to pay out for shares he was no longer interested in buying, even if he did make a bit of a loss with the options.
So since he hasn’t executed on the options, there’s nothing he has to actually pay back, but he also won’t be allowed to exercise those options and purchase what would have been $56 billion worth of dirt cheap stocks?
Yes. Options have expiry dates. Him letting the options expire cuts off those cheap stocks for him.
Net worth calculations take all known assets into account, this includes options. Naturally the options are completely worthless now.
True, but their methods of learning do not differ significantly from that of muggles. They still need to take classes the same way we do, and this would need to learn maths and logic the same way too.
It's a form of contract that allows (but does not obligate) a person to buy X amount of shares for Y price in the future, regardless of the going rate at the time.
Does this mean he didn’t receive this compensation yet, and now he simply won’t receive it, assuming the company doesn’t appeal or move states like the article mentions?
It means he hasn't executed on those options yet - he hasn't yet bought those stocks at the price agreed.
Reading is very common at Hogwarts and the wider wizarding world. Hogwarts has an extensive library, and most of their communications and news media are done over written mediums.
Contrast that to maths where the hardest thing most wizards would realistically have to do is basic money operations. Made even harder by their bonkers monetary system.
Hermione mentioned in the first book that wizards tend to absolutely suck at things that are typically Muggle, like logic, so it follows that they probably suck at math too.
You need help.