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Where are the robotic bricklayers?
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades.
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New Leadership at Blizzard
A message for the Blizzard community.
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We Switched to Mattermost
Secure workloads with Identity-First Reachability. NetFoundry closes inbound ports and replaces VPNs for simpler, zero-trust networking.
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Why is China smashing its tech industry?
Maybe because what countries think of as a "tech industry" isn't always the same
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Savings are now more liquid and part of “M1 money”
Money is marvelously nuanced. Because different assets can be used as money, we need several categories and definitions to keep track of it. M1 describes the most liquid and widely...
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It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
The mental minefield of capex and opex
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Murray's jailing is latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
The supreme court’s refusal to hear Craig Murray’s appeal against his unprecedented conviction for ‘jigsaw identification’ means the British state is now effectively credentialising journalists. Only corporate journalists will be safe from state retribution.
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Where has all the productivity gone?
Why hasn't new technology made us more productive than it has?
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Enterprise, IT architecture and strategy is getting more and more frustrating
With increasing IT volumes in the world, landscape change is getting harder and harder, and we need to adapt to that fact. Upper management is very slow to adapt and the Enterprise/IT Architect/Str…
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The Itanic Has Sunk
By today, July 29, 2021, Intel has shipped the last of its …
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Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it
A collection of my personal work, including essays, projects, and photos.
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Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers
The lie from ad tech is that there's no such thing as a premium publisher and all ad views are basically the same.
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Vaccines and our return to office plans
An update on Google’s return to office plans, including vaccine requirements and extending voluntary work from home.
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Funding GIMP developers for sustainable development
GIMP is developed by its community - support the humans behind
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Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – a Sad but True Story (2020)
From time to time Microsoft decides to block or even silently drop emails that are sent by my selfhosted email server. It’s always a pain and takes a lot of effort to deal with it. This time I decided to…Read more ›
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Discord Launches Threads
Today, we’re excited to introduce a new home for all those winding discussions happening in your communities: Threads!
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Getting sweet patron money on the modern internet (2020)
Once, to survive in the arts, you needed someone like this : The profoundly rich product of centuries of inbreeding. This is a blog pos...
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Google launches new vulnerability reward platform
Posted by Jan Keller, Technical Program Manager, Google VRP A little over 10 years ago , we launched our Vulnerability Rewards Program (VR...
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Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little
Previously published at GBH News. I have nothing against Substack. The newsletter platform seems like a clean, simple tool aimed at helping independent writers charge subscription fees for their wo…
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Making The World's Most Detailed Print Maps
To make the world's most detailed print maps, we only make maps when our data resolution exceeds that of our printed resolution and we print our maps using the highest resolution mediums available.
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Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
NBC drops the ball on distribution
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Why Japan Didn’t Create the iPod (2008)
At the end of last year, there were a couple of articles about Japan’s failure to be a giant in the new digital age (Newsweek on Why Apple Isn’t Japanese , and there were some interesting comments in a blog response Japan is no longer a leader in Electronics ). Unfortunately, the Newsweek article completely ignores…
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The SaaS Org Chart
You've raised a new funding round. You need to staff up. Here's what that looks like.
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Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.