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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace2022137 points254 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
Russia’s war in Ukraine has an infinite number of scenarios, but scores of war games point to two likely paths.
This week, MPs have returned to Parliament from their summer recess. As they walk through its corridors, drink in its subsidised bars, and plot in its tea-rooms, I wonder how many MPs stop to ask: …
Evernote has been plagued by a series of managerial missteps and failed product launches. The company’s future is far from certain.
In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.
Don’t build the startup ship of Theseus.
Our bikes kept getting damaged in transit. Our solution – print a giant TV on the side of the box. Here's how that one tiny decision made a huge impact.
Manufacturers of vehicles, electronics, appliances, and more are making it tough for independent shops and DIYers to make repairs. Shouldn’t you be able to get stuff you own fixed where and how you want?
Jeffrey Lee Funk and Gary Smith have a list of startups with $3 bllion or more in cumulative losses:
Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years, and for the first time in the U.S. we have simultaneous bubbles across all major asset classes.
In March 2022, it was reported that the United States was sending over some Switchblades to Ukraine.
Optus notifies customers of a cyberattack that has allowed unauthorised access to customers personal information.
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PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
I subscribe to a lot of streaming video services, and that means I use a lot of streaming video apps. Most of them fall short of my expectations. Here, then, is a simple specification for a streaming video app. Follow it, and your app will be well on its way to not sucking .
Why best products and leaders are not heroes; they solve 3 layers of every problem
There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. So the idea behind unbundling of Airbnb is simple: Pick a niche use case with passionate but unsatisfied guests and then build a business around it.
Headline Blitz: Semiconductor Edition
Product updates, company news, and educational content on AI storage, object storage, data lakehouses, and cloud-native infrastructure from MinIO.
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…
In my writeup the other day about not getting a new computer (or, more accurately, about ordering one and then cancelling the order because of supply chain issues), I mentioned that in lieu of gett…
It's can't just be an excuse — we need to improve our policies
And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55.
Does it stop third-party tracking? Or is it just an illusion of privacy?
In this episode, Jeremy Utley explains why good ideas are often preceded by not-so-good ideas.
For the Winter 2022 batch, we received 17,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 414. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at Y Combinator’s 34th Demo Day.
Measuring the extent of self-reviewing at the New York Review of Books from 1963-2022
