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Most Americans say government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage
Most Americans (66%) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.
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Marketers are addicted to bad data
Modern marketing is all about data and however hard you might try, you can't spend any time around marketers online without being subjected to endless
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The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees
Legal Fees: Not a Hill to Die On, But Some Parity Would be Nice
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Policy, not tech, spurred Danish dominance in wind energy
An analysis of Denmark’s wind industry offers lessons for policymakers seeking to increase renewable electricity production with limited budgets, according to Cynthia Lin Lawell.
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HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”
HP never stopped innovating. From its origins in the 1930s as a leading electronics manufacturer to its role in the birth of PCs and performance servers, it has always demonstrated incredible ingenuity.
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Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)
April 2008 Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there aren't more Googles is that most startups get bought before they can change the world.
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RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos
"youtube-dl" is a popular free software tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other user-uploaded video platforms. GitHub recently took down youtube-dl’s code repository at the behest of the Recording Industry Association of America, potentially stopping many thousands of users, and other...
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Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
I just spent the past 6 hours migrating some of my open source projects from Travis CI to GitHub Actions, and I thought I'd pause for a bit (12 hours into this project, probably 15-20 more to go) to jot down a few thoughts. I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. For almost a decade, Travis CI made it possible…
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We are building a CLI first PaaS without a web frontend
At the start of this hectic year I have joined Micro, an open source microservices platform. The company was born out of a Go framework. We took the concepts...
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The Economics of Sex Robots
This is a lightly edited version of an article I wrote that first appeared in Jacobite. I had a great conversation about this article and evolutionary psychology more generally (link here) with Joh…
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Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
Documenting the white-hat disclosure, Chase Support DM transcript, Tom Kelly email, and the resolution of the false banking narrative.
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Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs
Discogs Digs is the place to start your journey of music discovery. Explore recommendations, unique stories, guides, and more.
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Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Published November 2020 Lately, it has become fashionable to debate what is, or is not, “money-printing” by central banks. This debate is natural, due to the extreme policy nature of 2020, with massive fiscal expenditures, huge increases in central bank balance sheets, and changes in central bank inflation targets…
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Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users
November marks one year since we launched Brave 1.0, the most private, safest, and fastest (3-6x) browser. Over the past year, we've seen amazing growth on multiple fronts and we're happy to celebrate Brave 1.0's first anniversary by announcing that we officially passed 20 million monthly active users (20.5), up from…
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Study: Focus will shape the future of distributed work
The shift to working from home has mostly been positive for knowledge workers, but the challenges reveal a $1.2 trillion opportunity.
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The new pricing model for Travis CI
At Travis CI, we design CI/CD products to make code testing and deployment easy. We are a huge supporter of open-source teams, with many projects such as…
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Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking over Time
On average, UX changes have a smaller impact on quantitative metrics. This trend means that UX has substantially advanced since 2006.
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D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) sunsetting DC/OS and focusing on Kubernetes
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
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Product-market fit for a B2B company
Some big cloud earnings this week
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Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
NumFOCUS's Code of Conduct Committee's apology to Jeremy Howard
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Apple reported its fourth quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Thursday, October 29, 2020.
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Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by the Intercept
An attempt to assess the importance of the known evidence, and a critique of media lies to protect their favored candidate, could not be published at The Intercept
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My Resignation from the Intercept
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
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Introducing Semgrep and r2c
An extensible developer-friendly application security platform that scans source code to surface true and actionable security issues with AI-assisted SAST, SCA, and Secrets Detection solutions.
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Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU
Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Voting has already begun in one of the most consequential elections in U.S. history. More than ever before in American politics, t…