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How we paid for the War on Terror
Or, why Keynesianism and functional finance demand politics.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,121 posts.
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Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires
Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” (Facebook), “organizing the world’s information” (Google), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Amazon) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” (Apple), the founding missions of…
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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
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Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon
The origin of AWS and the story of Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon.
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‘Horizon Workrooms’: remote collaboration reimagined
The way we work is changing. More people are working remotely, more people want flexible work options, and more people are re-thinking what it means to be in an office. So today, we’re excited to launch the open beta of Horizon Workrooms, available for free on Oculus Quest 2 in all countries where Quest 2 is supported.
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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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GitHub Discussions is out of beta
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.
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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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Mastodon now a non-profit organisation
In June, I was able to officially register Mastodon gGmbH after nearly 8 months of legal work (“gGmbH” means “non-profit limited liability company”). A non-profit limited liability company in Germany is structered and operates similarly to a for-profit limited liability company with a few key differences. The founding…
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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?
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Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M
Parsecs technology allows creators to work together remotely and leverage high performance processing from anywhere Unity (NYSE: U), the worlds leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the high performance remote desktop…
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End of the line for Uber?
Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends.