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Linode increases price of compute plans and more
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Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations
You can now donate to support Signal, the secure messaging service, directly.
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Why You Make Less Money
Have you ever had a conversation with a fellow technologist that you felt wasn’t quite at your skill level, and at some point you discovered that she/he makes $20,000 more than you do? $50,00…
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JEDEC publishes GDDR7 graphics memory standard
ARLINGTON, Va., USA – MARCH 5, 2024 – JEDEC Solid State Technology Association , the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, is pleased to announce the publication of JESD239 Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR7) SGRAM. This groundbreaking new memory standard is available for free…
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Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
Is he secretly the best young economist today?
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Problems that attract smart people
The roller-coaster that is generative AI keeps chugging on, and for those of us sitting in the audience, it is more than entertaining.
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MGA Entertainment: A privately-owned toy company doing billions in revenue
The privately-owned toy company quietly doing billions in revenue.
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Gig Companies Violate Workers Rights
Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights.
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Announcing Tinker
Introducing Tinker: a flexible API for fine-tuning language models.
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"Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired
For other news from February, see my previous grapevine. This report is available free to the public. If you like my writings on genre issues, consider backing my Patreon.
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End artificial scarcities to increase productivity
My colleagues and I realized this over beer: dry erase markers cost almost nothing, yet a lecture hall never contains functioning dry erase markers.
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OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board
Nakasone brings cybersecurity experience to growing Board of Directors; will join the Board’s Safety and Security Committee
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Don't Trust Google (2002)
Many people have been writing about Google this week - either in response to the Newsweek cover story , or to the recent Wired article about Google’s growing pains, and its happy motto: “Don’t be evil”.
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Dropbox API v2 launches
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Remote Work Can (and Does) Boost Employee Productivity
Data proves it: Remote work boosts productivity. Here's why — and how you can empower your remote team to be more productive.
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Why You Need More Than Passion to be Successful
Stay ahead with the latest trends in experience analytics, digital marketing, product management, customer experience, and much more.
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Coinbase Commerce: merchants can accept multiple digital currencies
We’re excited to announce Coinbase Commerce, available today for merchants around the world. Merchants everywhere can use Coinbase Commerce…
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Radar Maps Platform
Radar Maps Platform is live, a fast, affordable alternative to Google Maps and Mapbox with integrated geofencing.
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“CEO said a thing” journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufacturer share by OS
As steer and drplokta pointed out yesterday , the Nielsen diagram was grossly out of proportion, so it looked like RIM and MS were better than they were. I passed the data to steer, who then played around with R (code is in the other post), and produced the second diagram. I've tried to line them…
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A better offer letter
At Carta we spend a lot of time thinking about how to better educate employees on startup equity. Even new hires at Carta often don’t…
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Requiem for a bank loan
A brief retrospective on an attractive product First Republic used to offer, and a wider discourse on the banking crisis.
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Why airlines tend to be unionized
The explanation lies in the interaction of labor laws and aviation regulations. Let's consider labor laws first. The law compels a company to negotiate with a labor union. If it cannot reach an agreement, however, and the union goes out on strike, the company is able to hire replacement workers and continue its…
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Caller ID Made Simple
I'm building OpenCNAM with friends: a simple API that returns caller ID names for phone numbers, with a free tier of 60 queries an hour, no account needed.
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Everything is an AI scam now
Whenever you watch a video on YouTube now, you will likely get an advert for a scammy product. In the past few weeks I've seen:
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Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.