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Apple Set to Release Nudity Detection in Texting, Other Features Remain on Hold(bloomberg.com)
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Posted this older piece because it is one of the better written articles on the dangers of shares in private companies that don’t pan out the way we would hope for and the risks involved.
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Good Technology Wasn't So Good for Employees (2015)(bloomberg.com)
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Reminds me of the great article by Matt Levine on how Good employees suffered from the not-so-good acquisition by BlackBerry: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-12-23/good-t...
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Every other year there is another prediction on the death of YC. It was super small and not elite in the beginning. Now that it is famous more companies apply by definition and they by nature of the class being small turn away very good one
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Woman Accused of Keeping Mother’s Corpse in Order to Collect Social Security(nationalinterest.org)
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My favorite interaction of Orwell with another writer is that with Aldous Huxley. Aldous Huxley wrote this in a letter to Orwell in 1949: Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning an
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Regarding Truman: In September 23, 1946, Robeson and a delegation representing the ACAL met with President Harry Truman to push for an anti-lynching agenda. Robeson demanded that Truman issue a public statement expressing his views on lynch
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NH woman accused of keeping mother's corpse for Social Security payments(wgme.com)
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That was so funny and clever.
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Humans display similar outcomes in the Ganges river. But it is dangerous for outside tourists for sure and it seems the locals are immune or inoculated to all the e. coli bacili in the river. The humans there believe the river to be purifyi
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A boycott would mean the players would not go like the real boycotts of 1980 Moscow or 1984 Los Angeles. This fake boycott of diplomats is not even performative art.
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I expect to see a lot more of this in the next couple of decades as the world adapts to American (and to a lesser extent Western) tactics. The term whataboutism was invented to deflect international charges on killing and lynching of Blacks
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Anne Rice was behind Interview with the Vampire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Chronicles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interview_with_the_Vampire
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Maybe it doesn’t make financial logic for the brand and it’s reputation in the long run. (Punnery not intended)
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In many parts of the world government schools are often free or close to free. But the private universities are not and most governments do not offer student loans for private schooling as there is the freeish government alternative (if you
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How about having an explicit exam only transparent admissions policy with overt extra points for say preferred disadvantaged groups? India has a similar system for entrance to universities with quotas for the lower castes. Or is that much m
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Salesforce’s MuleSoft Unit Is Going Through a ‘Rough Patch’(bloomberg.com)
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It’s at 76% now. In 53 minutes since the post it has gone down 4%. So say roughly 5% per hour as a back of the envelop calculation. That’s roughly 20 hours on a full charged cycle. It would be good to know if there is a fast charge capabili
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Raising money is never standard or plain vanilla. The devil is in the details and governance clauses and ratchet clauses. The majority-owning founders (70 percent) of Cisco were kicked out by minority shareholder VC Sequoia (30%).
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For payments you can look at solutions like Stripe and for auth solutions like acmelogin and keycloak. For hosting there are even credits available for startups from IBM, Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. AWS and Google are most popular with sta
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My favorite quote on inflation is: “There are four types of economies: Developed, developing, Japan & Argentina.” —- Japan in reference to deflation and Argentina to inflation.
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Let’s see if they can prevent US incursions into their terriorial waters as the US did to the Soviet Union in the early 1970s in the Sea of Okhotsk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
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Jeff Bezos finally responds to Edwardsville Amazon warehouse deaths(nypost.com)
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It’s interesting to see how sports is orphaned in academia in the rest of the world. You either leave school to be a real sports athlete or stay at university and do sports on a more ad hoc intramural level. The sports staff and coaches, if
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Apple has a vested interest in giving less business to Samsung which it competes with on mobile phones and had also sued separately in the past for alleged copying the iPhone.
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The Assange Case Is the US Defending Its Right to Lie(caitlinjohnstone.substack.com)
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Clearly they get their inspiration from our political leaders and their super responsible parties: https://nypost.com/2021/08/08/dj-posts-pics-of-obamas-birthd... https://www.nytimes.com/2021&
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Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis(reuters.com)
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The Chinese company Geely owns Volvo. This might be one of the first reports I have seen of a Chinese company being hacked to have their IP being stolen.

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