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Why none of my books are available on Audible
And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55.
Wasmer and Trademarks
Wasmer attempted to register the WebAssembly trademark. ## We shouldn't have done that. We're sorry. We won't do it again. _Update: post edited on Feb...
Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky shared our design for living and working anywhere with employees around the globe.
We need a middle class for startups
Idea: Make Mittelstands cool in America. Rebrand the US Middle Market. Create a studio and fund to build and buy Mittelstands.
Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
In this article, Lago's cofounder Raffi gives an overview of the technical challenges we faced while implementing a hybrid pricing model at Qonto, and what we learned during this journey.
FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet
The FAA delivered September 1 the long-sought approval of an unleaded fuel now cleared to power every spark-ignition engine on any airframe in the general aviation fleet.
Second-Order Thinking
Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how it works.
Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas.
I am not a supplier
For the past few years, we have seen a lot of discussions around the concept of the Software Supply Chain. These discussions started around the time of LeftPad and escalated with multiple incidents in the past few years. The problem of all the work in this domain is that it forgets a fundamental point.
Elementary OS is imploding
elementary founder: "I might take some time off from Linux or join another community maybe"
Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
Nuclear power currently makes up slightly less than 20% of the total electricity produced in the US, largely from plants built in the 70s and 80s.
On the removal of Come Back Alive
The safety of our community is vital to us and we will continue to uphold our community guidelines to ensure a safe environment for our creators.
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2022.
Apple security bounty upgraded
Apple’s Security Bounty program has paid nearly $20 million in rewards to security researchers in just two and a half years. Our new site makes it easier than ever for researchers to submit reports on the web, get real-time updates from Apple engineering, and earn recognition for helping to improve security for the…
Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
This page is no longer available. Order to comply or sanctions issued by the CNIL may be made public. In this case, a time limit shall be specified in the decision. Once this time period has expired, the organisations that have been given formal notice or sanctioned are no longer identified in the public decision. For…
Oncall Compensation for Software Engineers
Which companies pay for oncall, and how much? Philosophies across the industry for paying for standby duty and numbers from 80 companies.
Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
Explaining Ethereum's consensus mechanism after The Merge
Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
We’re excited to roll out a new way to help your community server hold organized, meaningful conversations without drowning each other out: Forum Channels.
Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit
We’re pleased to share that Elastic and Amazon have resolved the trademark infringement lawsuit related to the term Elasticsearch. Now the only Elasticsearch service on AWS and the AWS Marketplace is ...
Russia’s Possible Invasion of Ukraine
If peace talks fail, the Russian military has several options to invade Ukraine through northern, central, and southern routes, raising critical questions for the United States and its NATO allies according to analysis by the CSIS International Security Program.
OpenAI
I have some exciting news (for me, anyway). Starting next week, I’ll be going on leave from UT Austin for one year, to work at OpenAI. They’re the creators of the astonishing GPT-3 and …
Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
Meta is not wanting or “threatening” to leave Europe and any reporting that implies we do is simply not true.