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How is money created?
Most of the money in the economy is created by banks when they provide loans.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 146 posts.
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Big data is dead
Big data is dead. Long live easy data. | Reading time: 18 min read
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Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
Accessing Wolfram|Alpha's computational knowledge with ChatGPT--an ideal combination of precise computation with human-like expression of ideas. Stephen Wolfram explains how.
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How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009)
This is a series of pages that guide you through the creation and operation of a successful consulting business. I’ve written this after running a fairly successful consultancy business in the mid-90’s and reviving this business in 2008. I’m primarily active in software, so some of the things in here will be skewed in…
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Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Last year, our mighty donor base generously donated a record-breaking amount to the Thunderbird project! Here's our 2022 Financial Report.
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Money Laundering and AML Compliance
A brief overview of what money laundering is, what financial institutions do about it, and why.
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A response to the git.centos.org changes
More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.
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Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google.
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The Cloud Computer
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
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Mixtral of experts
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain
The end of a dramatic weekend in tech is that OpenAI has split and Microsoft is partnered with one and has hired the other; this is the ultimate failure case of what should have been a for-profit c…
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Urgent: Sign the petition now
Nearly 40,000 of all depositors at Silicon Valley Bank were small businesses. If swift action isn’t taken, over 100,000 people could soon lose their jobs.
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Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa
After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.By Yasser ElabdI was recruited by Microsoft in 1998, and I helped bring the company’s products throughout…
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LXD is now under Canonical
The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.
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We stand to save $7M over five years from our cloud exit
Since declaring our intention to leave the cloud in October, we've been busy at work making it so. After a brief detour down a blind alley with an enterprise Kubernetes provider, we found our stride building our own tools, and successfully moved the first small application out of the cloud a few weeks ago. Now our…
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Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
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If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired . I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:
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Mistral 7B
The best 7B model to date, Apache 2.0
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Credit card debt collection
Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
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Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.
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Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Kagi raises $670k
Kagi has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date. This was made possible with the participation of 42 accredited investors, most of whom are actual Kagi users....
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How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features
As part of our commitment to transparency and user control, we're providing clarity on our approach to Zoom’s AI features and content sharing for product improvement purposes.
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Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018)
Digg was having a rough year. Our CEO left the day before I joined. Senior engineers ghosted out the door, dampening productivity and pulling their remaining friends. We had only one remaining shot at revival, launching our two-years in the making rewrite: Digg v4. It did not go as planned.
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A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
Element has chosen to pursue future development of Synapse, Dendrite and associated server-side projects under the terms of AGPLv3.
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Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions
In December of last year, we paused the planned deprecation of Manifest V2 in order to address developer feedback and deliver better solutions to migration issues . As a result of this feedback, we’ve made a number of changes to Manifest V3 to close these gaps , including: