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Your Money and Your Life (Edward Snowden)
Central Bank Digital Currencies will ransom our future
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,982 posts.
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The idea maze
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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The Art of Closing
How to close patches for your open source project you don't want.
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The Ethics of Running a Data Breach Search Service
No matter how much anyone tries to sugar coat it, a service like Have I been pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) which deals with billions of records hacked out of other peoples' systems is always going to sit in a grey area. There are degrees, of course; at one end
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The anti-inflation pivot of 2022
In response to the surge in prices that began in earnest in the summer of 2021 central banks all around the world are hiking interest rates.
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The rise of the U.S., the rise of China
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan in the second half of the 20th…
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It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices
Henry George was right about land values. And today we have a homebuilder cartel rooted in control of land and financing.
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Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Books are not too expensive
Let’s Explore a Little Math
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I’ll Give MongoDB Another Try In Ten Years
A few weeks ago I wrote a small app that fetches JSON documents from app.net’s API and draws a word cloud . At first I wasn’t keeping the content around after generating the images. Later I thought of other things I’d like to do with the documents, so I decided to start storing them.
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How much is YouTube worth today?
Google acquired YouTube for US$1.6bn in 2006. In 2022, YouTube could be worth over US$180bn achieving a +110x return. Analysis of YouTube revenue and usage statistics and financial metrics.
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A few words about FiveThirtyEight
Silver Bulletin will begin publishing some new features soon — including Trump approval ratings. But the media just lost an extremely valuable resource.
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Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023)
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.
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How to Afford Anything
Home Donate New Search Gallery Reviews How-To Books Links Workshops About Contact
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The AI Productivity Gap
Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.
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Marc Andreessen on Investing and Tech
Transcript of interview on how tech changes the world
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An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft
Salesforce-Slack and Penguin-Simon & Schuster both show a failure to enforce antitrust laws creates monopolies.
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Look How Big Is My Team
I'm used to getting asked how many employees work at my startup. For most people, it's a quick way to assess a startup's success. Supposedly, the bigger, the better. But does it really reflect success?
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Building a Treasury Bond Ladder
A US treasury bond ladder is a great alternative to a high-yield savings account or CDs to invest short-term funds that you don't want to put at risk. Treasury bills, notes, and bonds (treasuries) are US government debt securities that may pay interest and return the principal at a specific time. While not FDIC…