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Savings and Loan Crisis 1980–1989
In the 1980s, the financial sector suffered through a period of distress that was focused on the nation's savings and loan industry.
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A better way to divide the pie
In his new book, Prof. Barry Nalebuff proposes a fairer, more principled way to negotiate: splitting the additional value created by reaching an agreement. In this excerpt, he explains the concept through a visit to one of New Haven’s iconic pizza spots.
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New lower Azure pricing
As part of our continued commitment to deliver Azure to customers at the best possible prices, effective October 1st, we are lowering prices on many of our most popular virtual machines (VMs).
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Stripe in Japan
Stripe は、あらゆる規模や業種のビジネスにおける決済の受け入れ、柔軟な請求モデルの構築、および資金移動の管理を支援する、金融サービスプラットフォームです。
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You don't have to sell your company to have financial security
Paul Graham thinks that startup founders need to sell their companies to get freedom and security: They want enough money that (a) they don’t have to worry about running out of money and (b) they can spend their time how they want. Running your own business offers neither. You certainly don…
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Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.
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Why we kept our startup in Australia
News, product updates, and conversations shaping the future of digital value from Macropod and the people building the next generation of payments.
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App Store: Sentence first — verdict afterwards
UPDATE 2 Jun 2010: Seems while Australia was sleeping a gazillion people read our little post, so allow me to clarify a few things – My Frame still appears to be in the App Store. No this was…
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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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How Much Does a Compiler Cost?
The compiler tool chain is one of the largest and most complex components of any system, and increasingly will be based on open source code, either GCC or LLVM. On a Linux system only the operating system kernel and browser will have more lines of code. For a commercial system, the compiler has to be completely…
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Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website.
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Lego MRI Scanners donated to hospitals to help children cope with anxiety (2022)
The LEGO Foundation to donate LEGO® MRI Scanners to hospitals globally
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Taking a stand on open source and patents
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers
Voice AI platform ElevenLabs unveils new AI Dubbing feature - the biggest milestone yet in the company’s efforts to remove language barriers
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Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs
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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Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
After a great run, we have decided to officially sunset Nylas Mail.
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Questions you have to answer correctly to get funding for your startup
Fundraising questions for startups: 1. Why do you need investment? 2. What does your service do? 3. Is there any competition? 4. Can you...
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The Workflow Pattern
How to implement event sourced workflows?
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Cloudflare’s Zero Egress Fee Object Storage, R2, Is Now GA
R2 is now generally available!! R2 gives developers object storage minus the egress fees
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Agentic AI Foundation
Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI have launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAF). Learn about this new non-profit organization dedicated to making agentic AI safe, accessible, and beneficial for everyone.
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