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Why there is no Facebook killer: the death of the P2P dream (2014)
This is why we don't have a Facebook killer, and why we won't. We might have a 'better' Facebook, but it will still be a Facebook.
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Performance Culture
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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Automattic Purchases .blog TLD for $19M
It’s now public that Automattic is the company behind Knock Knock Whois There LLC, the registry for the new .blog TLD. (And a great pun.) We wanted to stay stealth while in the bidding process and …
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Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test
How the physical box design for a subscription box affects retention.
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Job Descriptions Should Be Better
Most job descriptions are terrible. We need to make them better.
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Platform wars: the final score
The platform wars and over and Apple and Google both won. So, what's the score, how many smartphones and tablet are out there, and what should we think about next?
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The threat of technological unemployment
There is a widely reported threat to our economy: robots are going to replace human workers. It is nothing new... In 1930, Keynes, the famous economist introduced the term "technological unemployment"... We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they…
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Stephen Hawking confirms: The problem is Capitalism, not robots
To call what we have now as Capitalism, is just wrong. What we have bears little resemblance to even what I saw as a child in the US, let alone anything like what Adam Smith talks about. What we have is at best crony capitalism, and more likely straight corruption top to bottom, with a fake veneer of something called…
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You can't trust Amazon Underground
Bid on the RGP-Domain discours.es. Bid now from €10 and secure the domain at an early stage!
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Why Are Medical Ultrasound Systems So Inexpensive?
Hackernews linked to a Medium post on ultrasound devices today, entitled " Why are Ultrasound Machines So Expensive? " which, being my cor...
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What If I Don't Actually Like My Users? (2008)
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Accounting in 2016 – Still a manual and tedious process
The past few weeks I’ve been struggling with automating my accounting, invoicing and banking processes to the point I don’t really have to think about it anymore. Currently, a lot of my accounting-related processes are still way too manual for my liking. Being both a virtuous, lazy programmer and an entrepreneur I’d…
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On the Road to Recap
Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” By…
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Why We're Sponsoring LambdaConf 2016
Occasional writings about Haskell.
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The Impact of Index Investing: A Follow-Up
The prior piece received a much stronger reaction than I expected. The topic is complicated, with ideas that are difficult to adequately convey in words, so I’m going to use this piece as a follow-up. I’m going to look at the specific example of the Tech Bubble, which is a clear case in which the broad adoption of a…
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Another Way of Looking at Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo
Imagine a contest in which we are going to pit man against machine. But instead of measuring who is best in playing the game of ‘Go’ we are going to measure who is fastest. In the one corner: Human, all of 175 pounds of extremely well trained runner. And in the other corner, a Formula 1 racecar with a remote control…
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Hyperloop Freight is a Joke
As the ongoing attempt to build a Hyperloop tube in California is crashing due to entirely foreseen technical problems, the company trying to raise capital for the project, Hyperloop One, is lookin…
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The War on Cash
Corbett Reporteers will be no stranger to the war on cash. I’ve made videos discussing it, conducted interviews about it, written articles examining it and dissected it on the radio .
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The Brexit Possibility
Brexit’s downsides are clear; might tech help realize upsides in building something new based on a new world order?
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The meaning of trust in the age of Airbnb
I am on holiday in Bavaria, where, in between the beer and schnitzels, I have been contemplating the nature of trust. A rather old-fashioned guest house happily took our reservation and let us run …
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'Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe Meets the Koch Brothers
If you haven't seen it, my name appeared a few weeks ago in a headline next to Koch Industries
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Developers don't build cheaper housing because we make it illegal (2014)
One of the protests against allowing more housing construction is that supply and demand has failed – that developers only want to build luxury units or that the global elite will invariably buy al…
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