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Shopify to Acquire Delivrr for $2.1B
The largest acquisition in Shopify’s history will create an end-to-end logistics platform to unlock fast and easy fulfillment for millions of merchants
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Games people play with cash flow
One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.
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Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
We're sorry, but this special is no longer available. Please visit our Specials section for a current list of active specials.
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AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
What happens when most "people" you interact with on the internet are fake?
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Google to Acquire Mandiant
Transform cyber defense with Mandiant. Engage frontline experts for incident response, threat intelligence services, and cyber risk management.
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Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
Nuclear power currently makes up slightly less than 20% of the total electricity produced in the US, largely from plants built in the 70s and 80s.
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Ethereum Has Issues
I first wrote about the problem of bots front-running transactions a year and a half ago in The Order Flow , citing Dan Robinson and Georgio...
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JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
Since the initial announcement of Fleet, we have had an overwhelming amount of interest from all of you, with over 137,000 people signing up for the private preview. Our reason for starting with a clo
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A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy
We’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.
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Who cares about diversity?
All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires.
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Why am I no longer qualified to be a Brex customer?
Get answers to all of your questions regarding Brex
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Why not hire part-time developers?
Very few companies even consider this option, and that's a mistake
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An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets
Monopoly This is the difference between “pro-business” and “pro-market” policies which are often conflated. The former leads to concentration of
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Tokamak Energy sets a temperature record among commercial fusion companies
Tokamak Energy has achieved a plasma temperature of 100m degrees Celcius, the threshold for commercial fusion energy.
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At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”
I was a “hardcore” Principal Engineer at SpaceX, achieving performance goals and working longer hours than most of my colleagues—yet I saw my work roles gradually transferred to younger engineers who fit the company’s “frat bro” mold.By John Johnson, former Principal Engineer at SpaceXI have watched the recent news…
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Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero payments
Mullvad is now accepting payments in the Monero cryptocurrency.
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Open AI gets GPT-3 to work by hiring an army of humans to fix GPT’s bad answers
A few months ago, Smith wrote an AI-skeptical article where he threw some sentences at the GPT-3, a text processor from Open AI. As wikipedia puts it:
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DoorDash lays off 1250 employees
The latest news and announcements from DoorDash.
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No, Google did not hike the price of a .dev domain from $12 to $850
But domain pricing is very confusing. Let's demystify it.
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Betting on things that never change (2017)
Amazon launched 22 years ago this week.
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Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes
A correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous points us to this article in Technology Review , “Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online. Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.” Here’s the story:
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Turkish Magician Built a $600M Nasdaq-Listed Scam Based on Lies
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of Enochian Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENOB). This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
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The 5% Rule
...I learned a lot from that period, but one of the things I learned that I did not expect was what I now call my '5% rule.' No matter how kind, warm, thoughtful, amazing, cheerful, consistent, and perfect I treated people roughly 5% of them would just be terrible (yes, I have the numbers to back this)...
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Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
Can Stripe actually use Stripe Billing to manage subscriptions and invoice its customers? We conducted the experiment.