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Greece’s Proposals to End the Crisis
The only antidote to propaganda and malicious ‘leaks’ is transparency. After so much disinformation on my presentation at the Eurogroup of the Greek government’s position, the only response is to post the precise words uttered within. Read them and judge for yourselves whether the Greek government’s proposals…
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A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
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Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade
Access the latest perspectives on the energy transition with samples of research reports and data-driven analysis from BNEF experts.
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Why I chose Electron.js for my side business
Why I chose Electron.js over native macOS and Windows apps to build my side project.
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I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games
A Queen's Wish screenshot. Note that I use game art that I like to look at. This is necessary because I'll be staring at it for years, and...
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AppStore Reviews Should Be Stricter
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)
Mortgages are popularly thought of as loans, but to understand the industry, it's better to model them as complex manufactured products.
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When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.
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People in Silicon Valley Don’t Click on Ads
At least, not according to Facebook data
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What Killed Innovation?
I entered the data visualization field in 2012, when D3.js had just come out and interactive graphics were going through a digital Renaissance. By the time I was fully steeped in the field in 2016, it felt like a new, experimental project was coming out every week—each one pushing the boundaries of how we think about…
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The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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China, Leverage, and Values
If there is a new tech cold war, it is one with shots fired over a decade ago, largely by China. The questions going forward are about both leverage and values.
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Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
Anthropic commits to covering consumer electricity price increases caused by its data centers, including grid upgrades and new power generation.
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New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+
Where are you from? Try using TOR to sign up if your country is blocked, once you have an account you should be able to access the service without having to run TOR again.
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Kindle Paperwhite
Amazon’s goal should be for Kindle typography to equal or match print typography. They’re not even close.
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Where's my petabyte disk drive?
Fourteen years ago I noted that disk drives were growing so fast I couldn’t fill them up. Between 1997 and 2002, storage capacity doubled every year, allowing me to replace a 3 gigabyte drive with a new 120 gigabyte model. I wrote:
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America's reputation drops across the world
The proportion saying the United States will have a positive influence on world affairs has fallen in 26 out of 29 countries over the last six months. America’s reputation has fallen most markedly in Canada. For the first time in our decade-long survey series, China is placed ahead of the US when it comes to playing a…
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Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?
Link to: https://x.com/markgurman/status/2067741507273289766
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A 100x Investment (2019)
comma.ai has raised $8.1 million, Zoox has raised $990 million. Cruise and Waymo have raised even more.
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An update to our pricing
Our pricing model is getting much simpler!
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Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run.
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Very Good Security
“Never answer an anonymous letter” —Yogi Berra Did you ever wonder why doctor offices ask for your social security number? They don’t want to keep your SSN, but it’s the primary “key” that identifies you to an insurance company. In computer science/math terms, they need to call a function. Let’s call it: int…
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ICANN has taken my site hostage
This is an short story on how ICANN acts like mafia and has taken my site Nomad List hostage for 2 days now. Here’s how my site used to look: Here’s how it has…