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The Home Depot Teams Up with Walmart to Expand Same-Day and Next-Day Delivery
The Home Depot continues to offer faster delivery options to more customers – this time through an innovative partnership with another of the world’s leading retailers.
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Open source is not a business model (2018)
Person 1: Did you know that 60% of restaurants close within three years of opening ?
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LibreOffice 7.1 Community Edition
A brand new version of the best free open source office suite, based on the LibreOffice Technology platform for desktop, mobile and cloud productivity Berlin, February 3, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.1 Community, the volunteer-supported version of the best open source office suite for desktop productivity, is available from…
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US Customs Export Control Says: I’m Screwed
Update: It looks like this problem may have been resolved by USPS, with international shipments sent May 11 or later proceeding normally. But there’s still confusion about the source of the problem, the date it was resolved, and whether it’s truly fixed. It appears it’s necessary to buy new postage to reship any…
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Interview with Patrick Collison
In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs.
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Treasury Dept. Seeks to Track Transactions of Personal Bank Accounts over $600
The Biden administration is proposing that banks be required to report all transactions greater than $600 to collect more tax revenue. This policy is poised to suffocate businesses and stifle the financial privacy of Americans.
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Pitching your early stage startup
Tell your company's story more effectively, including specific details that matter to investors.
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AWS Region Coming to New Zealand
We are currently working on regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Spain , Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Auckland, New Zealand in the Works Today I am happy to announce that the new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region is in the works and will open in 2024. This region will have three Availability…
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Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation
Yet another sad story of how big companies kill small ones because of poor processes.
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Against Hickelism
Poverty is falling, and it isn't because of free-market capitalism
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The Importance of Price Signals
Originally published: December 2021 When price inflation occurs, it can be a very challenging time for everyone. In that type of environment, prices of goods and services often go up faster than wages, and the public and policymakers wish to constrain them. Historically, when price inflation becomes rampant…
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Monopoly supplier of critical Pentagon semiconductors shuts down its production
Monopoly Supplier of Critical Pentagon Semiconductors Shuts Down Its Production.
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Computing Performance on the Horizon
USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon
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Make Boring Plans
You’re probably familiar with the concept of Choose Boring Technology. If you’re not, I’ll wait for you to read the excellent blog post by…
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Golden Handcuffs
Stock-based compensation plans throughout the startup and tech sector are based on “golden handcuffs” – the idea that an employee can’t leave because they would be giving up too much money if they do. I’ve never loved that concept. It feels like staying in a bad marriage for the kids. So I have been involved […]
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Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021
Counterpoint Research Insight
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How to write a resume that converts
Keywords and outcomes that will get you an interview
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The 'Great Resignation' is really the 'Great Discontent'
Employees are quitting in droves. Learn what's fueling the mass job change.
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Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers
We’re proud to create good jobs and spur innovation and economic growth across the country.
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Proof of X
I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about different proof-of-work mechanisms. When I say proof-of-work, I’m not talking about consensus algorithms like the ones that some crypto currencies use. I’m talking about social networks.
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Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools
Update on pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools for a safer experience for users under 13.