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Why predicted gridlock almost never happens
Why predicted gridlock almost never happens and what this teaches us about travel demand
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IBM Building First Universal Quantum Computers for Business and Science
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
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Why getting traction is so hard these days
The end of the cycle One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. Although he doesn’t directly talk about it, the end of a tech cycle has major implications…
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United Airlines made passenger abandon mobility device at gate before honeymoon
I did everything right, according to both United and TSA’s disability policies. The TSA told United it was OK.
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Selling t-shirts beats selling mobile apps
Stop doing the apps. Start selling t-shirts. I spent an enormous amount of time doing apps, or even programs (before we begun to call it apps). I spent days on doing more or less challenging stuff like PGP [https://github.com/krzyzanowskim/ObjectivePGP] implementation or Cryptography [https://github.com/
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Startup School Online: Registration and Deals
Startup School online registration will be open from March 20th, 2017 to March 27th, 2017. Since the announcement of Startup School Online, we’ve received nearly 50,000 signups from prospective founders from Brazil, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Bahrain, Nepal and over 100 other countries. From this tremendous response, the…
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ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm ARM vs. Intel CPU Comparison
One of the nicer perks I have here at Cloudflare is access to the latest hardware, long before it even reaches the market. Until recently I mostly played with Intel hardware.
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Mozilla launches a new identity
We’re working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it.
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How Tesla Will Change the World (2015)
The story of how change really happens.
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React, Facebook, and the Revocable Patent License. Why It’s a Paper 🐯.
Update(9/25/17): My article about the licensing change.
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Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II
Any regulation, including those around net neutrality, should be put to a cost-benefit analysis. In this case regulation advocates come up short.
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Five Worlds
Something important is almost never mentioned in all the literature about programming and software development, and as a result we sometimes misunderstand each other. You’re a software develo…
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Finally, live TV made for you
There’s no question that people love TV, from live sports to breaking news to sitcoms and dramas. But the truth is, there are a lot of limitations in how to watch TV today. Unlike online video, people can't watch TV when they want, on any screen and on their terms, without commitments. Consumers have made it clear…
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Worldwide, Median Household Income About $10,000
New Gallup global income data estimate the median household income across 131 countries at $9,733, and median per-capita income at $2,920. Incomes in the 10 wealthiest countries are more than 50 times those in the 10 poorest.
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The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of…
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The Productivity–Pay Gap
The huge gap between rising incomes at the top and stagnating pay for the rest of us shows that workers are no longer benefiting from their rising productivity. Before 1979, worker pay and productivity grew in tandem. But since 1979, productivity has grown eight times faster than typical worker pay (hourly…
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Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
When you’re trying to get people to switch from a competitor to your product, you need to understand barriers to entry, and you need to understand them a lot better than you think, or people …
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The Stanford Professor Who Fought the Tax Lobby
Paying taxes in America doesn’t need to be difficult. But it's kept that way by the lobbying efforts of tax prep companies that profit from confusing tax forms.
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How To Legally Own Another Person
Even the church had its hippies –Coase does not need math –Avoid lawyers during Oktoberfest –The expat life ends one day –People who have…
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Transparency report
Proton's transparency report with aggregate statistics of legal orders from the Swiss authorities, covering Proton Mail, Proton Drive, and Proton Calendar.
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How Microsoft Lost the API War
Here’s a theory you hear a lot these days: “Microsoft is finished. As soon as Linux makes some inroads on the desktop and web applications replace desktop applications, the mighty empir…
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Understanding the Historic Divergence Between Productivity and a Typical Worker’s Pay: Why It Matters and Why It’s Real
The data series and methods we use to construct our graph of the growing gap between productivity and typical worker pay best capture how income generated in an average hour of work in the U.S. economy has not trickled down to raise hourly pay for typical workers.
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Painless Functional Specifications
When The Joel Test first appeared, one of the biggest sore points readers reported had to do with writing specs. It seems that specs are like flossing: everybody knows they should be writing them, …
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Benedict’s Newsletter
What mattered in tech this week? A weekly email newsletter.
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Patreon | News
Patreon gives creators the tools they need to reliably reach their fans, strengthen their communities, and build sustainable businesses
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As G Suite gains traction in the enterprise, G Suite’s Gmail and consumer Gmail to more closely align
Google’s G Suite business is gaining enormous traction among enterprise users. G Suite usage has more than doubled in the past year among large business customers. Today…
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[REPOST] The Non-Libertarian FAQ
[This is a repost of the Non-Libertarian FAQ (aka “Why I Hate Your Freedom”), which I wrote about five years ago and which used to be hosted on my website. It no longer completely refle…