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I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco
Peak indifference, big tobacco, disinformation and death
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Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous
Convincing yourself that following more famous people online will lead to a better life is dangerous. You're simply wasting your time.
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How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
In January 2020 I closed a $5.1M seed round, my first financing for my first company. I’ve closed another ~$6M since then. This is how I raised that first round.
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Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
In an important step toward a fully implantable intracortical brain-computer interface system, BrainGate researchers demonstrated the first human use of a wireless transmitter capable of delivering high-bandwidth neural signals.
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How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client
Five years ago, we launched Missive, an innovative but somewhat hard-to-define email client to the world....
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Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time
Haiku, Inc. is proud to announce that we have hired existing contributor waddlesplash to work on general Haiku improvement full-time. The contract was signed on Monday, August 23, 2021 and waddlesplash plans to start work tomorrow. In the past Haiku, …
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Goodbye YC
I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t many people around. PG and Jessica were still running things. We had offices in Mountain View,...
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Introducing Windows 11
At a time when the PC is playing a more central role in our lives, Windows 11 is designed to bring you closer to what you love.
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Russia restricts opposition election voting app
Mobile app store metrics from NetBlocks confirm the removal of a popular opposition election tracking app from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The incident comes as Russia ...
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LLVM relicensing update and call for help
In this blog post, I’d like to summarize the main points I talked about in the relicensing update presentation at the 2021 LLVM Developer’s meeting. The very short summary is that we are currently in the long tail phase of collecting relicensing agreements of past contributors.
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Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community
The PostgreSQL Core Team and the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada (PGCAC) wish to provide clarification on the ownership and …
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What's Accenture? (2020)
Accenture made $43B in 2019 - you've probably heard of them, but you might not be sure what they actually do. This post will help.
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Funds for Open Source
Helping companies invest in open source projects because we want open source creators to have a good livelihood and work sustainably, which is critical to the health of the whole ecosystem.
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My Life in E-Ink
Collection of odds and ends relating to e-readers including personal reminisces Background # Reading has been a huge part of my life. The written word has had arguably more of an impact on my life than anything I have experienced in person. As a kid back in early 2000’s; this meant a lot of library trips and saving…
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LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology
LaMDA adds pieces to one of the most tantalizing sections of the language puzzle: conversation.
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Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
Whether controlled by an artificial intelligence or a remote human operator, armed police robots and drones pose an unacceptable threat to civilians. The ongoing revolution in the field of robotics requires us to act now to prevent a new era of police violence.
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If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
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Beating TimSort at Merging
Learn how to beat TimSort at merging sorted lists in Python by creating a C extension. Discover the performance advantages of merging lists compare...
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