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Algorithmic stablecoins are provably impossible without continuous funding
Financial theory demonstrates that the concept is fundamentally flawed
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,886 posts.
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Legal win
Just got word that the court dismissed several of WP Engine and Silver Lake’s most serious claims — antitrust, monopolization, and extortion have been knocked out! These were by far the most signif…
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Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
When you read in the news that a person whom you know as rich and wealthy is in financial trouble or has declared bankruptcy, it is easy to feel a sense of futility about managing your own money. Y…
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Xerox to acquire Lexmark
Your resource for Xerox news on our products, business solutions, citizenship, company information via news releases, videos and more
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GDC 2020 has been postponed
After close consultation with partners in the game development industry & community around the world, organizers have made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March.
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The Need to Remove Bad Management
I’ve talked a lot recently about bad management as a root cause of poor infrastructure, especially on Twitter. The idea, channeled through Richard Mlynarik, is that the main barrier to good U…
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GitHub is sinking
The one where I suggest finding the nearest lifeboat.
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IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency
In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies.
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Why so few Matt Levines?
Why are popularizing educational newsletter-frequency writers of important fields like Matt Levine for finance so rare? Because most fields are too slow or ambiguous, and writers of the right combination of expertise, obsession, and persistence are also rare.
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Some notes on influenceering
The ups and downs of publishing non-commercial content on the internet.
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Apple security bounty upgraded
Apple’s Security Bounty program has paid nearly $20 million in rewards to security researchers in just two and a half years. Our new site makes it easier than ever for researchers to submit reports on the web, get real-time updates from Apple engineering, and earn recognition for helping to improve security for the…
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Announcing The Zig Software Foundation
In the United States, people look at you funny if you tell them you are starting a non-profit.
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Shorting Bitcoin
I just bought put options on MicroStrategy ($MSTR) , Coinbase ($COIN) , and Purpose Bitcoin ETF ($BTCC-B.TO) , all at a strike price not far off the current (late June) price, expiring around Christmas. Here’s the thinking.
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Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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WordPress’ market share is shrinking
There’s no more denying it: if you look at W3Techs CMS market share numbers, WordPress’ market share is shrinking, losing 0.4% market share since February. I do
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Android for all and the new Nexus 5
Just in time for Halloween, we have two new treats for Android fans.
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New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
With a unanimous vote, the Times Guild Unit Council and The Athletic’s contract action team approved the following statement:
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Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?
A look into the rising trend of technology companies creating or commissioning typefaces for their exclusive use.
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DreamWorld (YC W21) MMO raises all red flags
Wake up and smell the bullcrap.