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Betting on things that never change (2017)
Amazon launched 22 years ago this week.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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Strategy 101: An introduction to power
If you’re interested in strategy, this post will be valuable to you. It shares the the tools that I’ve found most valuable so far.
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Mystery Blips
A young operations engineer learns a lesson about creative debugging
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ChessBase and Stockfish end their legal dispute
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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How to sell tickets fairly
A proposal of how to sell a limited number of tickets to a live concert in a fair way
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Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20%
Every year, in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day.
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Carolynn Levy, Inventor of the SAFE
Levy shares how she wrote the five-page document that underpins much of early-stage venture capital today.
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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…
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Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer
2 weeks of dealing with Google as a developer
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Nokia and Airbus elected as judges at the UPC, an unheard corruption of Justice
Brussels, 16th November 2022 — Nokia and Airbus got their patent lawyers elected as part-time technical judges at the forthcoming Unified Patent Court (UPC). Europe is witnessing corporate capture of its Justice system. Being ‘judges’ in the morning and ‘ patent lawyers’ in the afternoon. The Unified Patent Court is…
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Laying myself off from Amazon
Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize the timing of this is quite coincidental— as this week Amazon began layoffs. My team was not affected by these layoffs (as far as I know, apparently the full scope is not yet known at the time of this writing.)
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Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
Evernote has been plagued by a series of managerial missteps and failed product launches. The company’s future is far from certain.
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Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
CEO Ian Small discusses what’s next for the company, and reaffirms Evernote’s commitment to helping customers remember everything and accomplish anything.
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The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
The reason will almost certainly surprise you.
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All companies are fucked up
Belts in Karate are ordered from white to black. This is of course a new invention. Originally, new colored belts were not given upon arbitrary levels of attainment, a white belt was given at the beginning of one's training and you just never washed it. Over the years...
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Rimac Nevera Hits 412kph to Become World’s Fastest Production Electric Car
The Rimac Nevera has set a top speed of 412kph (258mph), making it the fastest electric production car in the world.
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Four Years of Sourcehut
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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What Happened at Alameda Research
Milky Eggs
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FTX was registered with and licensed by the CFTC, which failed to regulate FTX
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Dennis M. Kelleher, Co-founder, President and CEO, issued the following statement regarding the CFTC’s failure to properly regulate or supervise FTX, which was registered and licensed by the CFTC and which had hired innumerable former CFTC officials: “FTX via FTX Derivatives US LLC, a derivatives…
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Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?
Jeffrey Lee Funk and Gary Smith have a list of startups with $3 bllion or more in cumulative losses:
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Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?
Have you heard that it is complicated to start a business in Germany?
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Sam Bankman-Fried vs. the Match King
The similarities between Ivar Kreuger and Sam Bankman Fried.
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Demystifying financial leverage
Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.