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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.
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The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
Employees are quitting in droves. Learn what's fueling the mass job change.
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Rust in Production: Qovery
What are the pros and cons of using Rust for production applications? Find out in our interview with Benjamin Chastanier, a senior software engineer at Qovery.
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Apple’s Mistake
While it’s possible to understand Apple’s motivations behind its decision to enable on-device scanning, the company had a better way to satisfy its societal obligations while preserving…
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Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap
Looking to learn more about what makes TomTom tick? Read the latest articles and news about maps, location data and the world they power in the TomTom Newsroom.
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Screw You, Microsoft Edge
Recently while searching for a book on Bookshop.org, I was interrupted by a popup apparently generated by Microsoft Edge advising me of an alternative:
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Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse
When tech companies take it upon themselves to arbitrate what is or isn't misinformation they think they're the patricians of internet discourse. The reality is they're the plumbing. Meanwhile, most of the mainstream media coverage around the pandemic can be classified into five logical fallacies.
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The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
OnlyFans has become part of the zeitgeist recently. The rise of e-girls and the prospects of making millions make it a fun thing to gawk at in a
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Captcha Patent Is an All-American Nightmare
A newly formed patent troll is looking for big money from small business websites, just for using free, off-the-shelf login verification tools. Defenders of the American Dream, LLC (DAD ), is sending out its demand letters to websites that use Google’s reCAPTCHA system, accusing them of infringing...
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Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view
Apple has announced the new client-side content scanning (based on parameters received from the center) to find child sexual abuse materials to be reported to law enforcers.
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A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
Build a censorship-resistant inflation dashboard. If we pick your project, we'll fund it with $100k.
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Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
Recently the Surgeon General of the United States weighed in on the spread of disinformation on major platforms and its effects on people and society. He e
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Early Retirement (2006)
The joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young.