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Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet
Apple is working with states across the country to roll out the ability for their residents to add their driver’s license or state ID to Wallet.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 167 posts.
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Our thoughts on compensation, and how they reflect Oxide's values.
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Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007)
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
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Doing a Job – The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover
Excerpt from a speech Adm. Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) gave at Columbia University in 1982 outlining his leadership style.
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Ideas are just a multiplier of execution (2005)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Progress Delayed is Progress Denied (Safari feature lag)
Apple's iOS browser (Safari) and engine (WebKit) are uniquely under-powered. Consistent delays in the delivery of important features ensure the web can never be a credible alternative to its proprietary tools and App Store. This is a bold assertion, and proving it requires examining the record from multiple directions.
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Costs of the 20-year war on terror: $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths
A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people.
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Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana.
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How Tech Loses Out
This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Hi everyone, This is a transcript of my presentation over at the European Microwave Week 2020, actually held in 2021. You can find the video here and the slides here. I’d like to thank Frank van Vliet, general chair of the EMW, for inviting me…
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The Value of In-House Expertise
An alternate title for this post might be, "Twitter has a kernel team!?". At this point, I've heard that surprised exclamation enough that I've lost count of the number times that's been said to me (I'd guess that it's more than ten but less than a hundred). If we look at trendy companies that are within a couple…
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An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (2014)
Millions of Americans struggle to get by on low wages, often without any benefits such as paid sick leave, a pension, or even health insurance. Their difficult lives are made immeasurably harder when they do the work they have been hired to do, but their employers refuse to pay, pay for some hours but not…
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Psychology of Human Misjudgment (Transcript) by Charlie Munger
In The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, Charlie Munger explains why we behave the way we do. This is a transcript of the fully updated talk.
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Productivity vs Wages | Productivity is Soaring, But Wages Aren't Keeping Up
The debate about productivity vs wages has been answered here. A study has found that the growth in compensation is lagging behind the productivity of employees.
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Basecamp's new etiquette regarding societal politics at work
Jason announced a raft of changes we've made to Basecamp earlier today. By far the most controversial is a new etiquette around societal politics at work, and the stances we'll take as a company. So to expand on that, here's a segment from what I wrote internally on that topic, as part of the announcement to employees…
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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false information to the press.
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Changes at Basecamp
At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck with what we have, we can create what we want. Just as we improve products through iteration, we iterate on our company too. Recently, we've made some internal company…
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Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist
We would like to provide important clarifications regarding the case of the climate activist who was arrested by French police.
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How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.
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Starship is still not understood
Another entry into my blog series on countering misconceptions in space journalism. I discussed this post on The Space Show on November 5 2021. It has been exactly two years since my initial posts …
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Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
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NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.
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Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues
The Atlassian Customer Agreement governs our Cloud and Data Center product offerings under a single, simplified contract for all customers.
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Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”
Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false information to the press.
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How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
A collection of all my interviews about my ‘How to Get Rich’ tweetstorm. Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep You probably know Naval from his Twitter account. We’re going to talk about his tweetstorm, “How To Get Rich (without getting lucky).” More
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Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model
Bronze/Starter is being phased out and current customers have over a year to transition.