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Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks
Bad things lead to more bad things. But (some) bad things can be fixed.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,981 posts.
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The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
In tech, switching jobs almost always comes with either a financial or a title upside. However, it doesn’t always come with both. Switching for higher compensation can result in a “lower” title, like going from Senior Software Engineer to SWE 2 or VP Engineering to Senior Engineering Manager. This
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A Compass for the Politics of Collapse
The word "collapse" appears more and more often in recent political debate. Online, in the media, in the Academia, and in radical politic...
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Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer
This post was inspired by a comment on HackerNews that I am not able to find anymore. The gist of it was “While architecture is often over-engineered, code i...
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Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)
When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then they look at the problem of people sending…
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Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?
I set out to investigate whether Hacker News is a useful barometer for up-and-coming technologies that will hit the mainstream within the next few years.
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How we paid for the War on Terror
Or, why Keynesianism and functional finance demand politics.
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AWS doesn’t know who I am
AWS needs an identity that uniquely represents its users, not fractured across corporate identity providers.
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Ashley's Apple Story
Ashley's Apple Saga
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What is ‘elite overproduction’?
Elite overproduction … describes the condition of a society which is producing too many potential elite-members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.
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Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations
Read this story without a payall
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Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report is strange
According to new data, the most popular post on Facebook is a business that sells golfing dates with former Green Bay Packers players. What?!
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T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People
T-Mobile is warning that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions of the stolen…
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Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run.
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Marc Andreessen on Investing and Tech
Transcript of interview on how tech changes the world
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Historian suspended by Facebook after sharing document by Goebbels
To: Oversight Board Good day, My name is Igor Petrov, I am an independent historian. The list of my publications, including those for Cambridge University Press, is available at https://independent.academia.edu/IgorPetrov40 On August 6, 2021, whilst conducting archival research and working with…
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Why Doesn't Software Show Up in Productivity?
Productivity growth has not been as fast as proponents of the "digital revolution" expected. Besides a short burst of higher productivity growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s (the higher slope portion), it is hard to see the impact.
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Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?
In the middle of a conflict, good analysis is hard to come by. Because adversaries do not telegraph their plans to one another, plans depend greatly on the fact patterns surrounding their execution…
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Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
A framework to make your pitch 10x more compelling in a few minutes
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The case against crisis-mongering
We face problems. As have all societies ever.
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Quality and Effort (2018)
It seems as though the opposite of “careless” ought to be “careful.” That the best way to avoid avoidable errors is to try harder, to put more care into the work. This means…
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The Problem with Ethereum
How did Ethereum become a system that looks more like the current financial system than anything revolutionary and just?