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Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud
Customers discontinuing their use of Google Cloud can move their data without incurring any network data transfer fees.
How to Ruin Your Company With One Bad Process
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
Things learned while running your own self-funded startup
Here's a brain dump of the things we've learned while running our business and shipping our first product ( Basis ). My experience at Valv...
Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach
Cloudflare launched nearly twelve years ago. Over that time, our set of services has become much more complicated. With that complexity we have developed policies around how we handle abuse of different features Cloudflare provides
Things are about to get worse for generative AI
A full of spectrum of infringment
American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
American, the world’s largest airline, poised to have the world’s largest supersonic fleet with new Boom Supersonic aircraft
Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas.
Rejected from YC (Again)
We got rejected from YC S19. Read on to learn more about this canon event and how it drove us to create an impromptu plan to get our first paying users.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.
How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy
How Germany Is Able To Run The World’s Second Largest Export Economy In The Post-Industrial Era “ The Germany Shock ” describes European growth & the efficiency-maximizing centralization of European manufacturing activity after the launch of the Single Market and the Euro . Two questi
Google Is Not God of the Web
Almost exactly two years ago, I warned that Google was on track to replace God of us all. Last month, The Verge's Dieter Bohn reported ...
Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII
Germany set to vote on the Unitary Patent Court (UPC), a proposal that would kill jobs and innovation in software. Open Letter to the Bundesrat: “Germany will violate 3 international agreements with the Unitary Patent” Dear Members of the Bundesrat, Tomorrow Friday 18 September 2020, the Bundesrat will be asked to…
Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement
A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.
Stripe Atlas for LLCs
LLCs are the entity of choice for many small teams, side projects, and bootstrapped businesses.
The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life
Important update for LTSE Equity customers.
The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
Reader warning: there's gonna be a lot of pretend puke photos in this post. If you've fired up HBO Max recently, you've probably seen that o...
At least now we know why Color really got that funding
Link to: http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-bill-nguyen-qa-2011-3
Engineering principles for building financial systems
Best practices and principles to create accurate and reliable software based financial systems.
Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
A US and UK data study: when the same product ranks in both Google AI Mode and traditional search, the AI Mode price is about 21.6% higher.
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Do AI companies work?
The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.
An update on YC China
In the summer of 2018, Qi Lu joined [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-china-qi-lu/] Y Combinator to help create YC China, a localized version of our U.S. program. As we worked to establish YC China, we had a change in leadership [https://blog.ycombinator.com/geoff-ralston-for-president/]. With this, our strategy…
Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]
UPDATE, 10:56PM CT: THE POWER OF THE INTERNET SAVED THE DAY. All of the bags of caffeinated coffees sold out. That’s approximately 24,000 bags of coffee. You all are amazing! We are overwhelmed with gratitude and will update tomorrow. Hopefully we can find these lonely bags of decaf a good home, too. We’ve had a…
Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about how penny auction sites make you money. As a reaction, some readers sent me links to day trading brokers that promise easy returns. These brokers allow private investors to hold stocks or currencies positions for a short time which makes it possible to speculate on small…
Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla cited as leading
As Tesla Motors {NASDAQ: TSLA] overarching mission witnessed a milestone via the International Energy Agency's (IEA) report we wrote about yesterday, it turns out there's more great news. Expanding on this further, according to the IEA,