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I will never ever forget watching Colin Powell deliver his Iraq speech. I was a child and very impressionable. I had the Desert Storm trading cards. All of them. I thought wow here is this credible general telling us how how bad these peopl
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shoot, you are right!
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The (privatized) power utility in Nova Scotia, Canada just this week proposed a fee of $8/kWh for solar power entering the grid. It was met with a pretty ferocious response to the point the government started re-writing the legislation
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Facebook Groups and Marketplace are both good examples of content graphs. Your social network is irrelevant to them, in fact you may prefer NOT to see the listings made by your friends/family as the negotiation/purchasing is often
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That is right in terms of the business. For the consumer though, the Social Graph did (and does) have real utility. It just has zero business value now as it isn't even useful for the retargeting data.
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There is something else going on around FB. Almost all activity online has shifted away from the Social Graph to a Content Graph. Almost nobody wants to see what their friends are doing online anymore. In a lot of ways it can be cringey. Pe
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It's very difficult. If you don't LOVE it then don't fight it. If you loved it, you'd know. You might still dislike the amount of work or some of the work itself, but I think you'd know. The other possibility is tha
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This comment on Reddit today shook me a bit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRaceTo10Million/comments/sem15u/... The chutzpah has gone so far that anything proto-crypto is the solution to anything else. This
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This is the Spite Store of containers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YlA6gtha-w
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You are right! I actually grew up in Canada and the Ramsay kit shipped from Rochester NY if I remember correctly. 1 Watt was very clearly labeled for Export Only, although still not legal in Canada. I believe they do still sell the 1watt th
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Canadian Couch Potato is the closest.
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Wealthsimple now has in house advisors who email and call you to discuss your account. There is nothing 'robo' about the business model anymore and instead they are just focused on growing AUM by talking to people and convincing t
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SO LOUD
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There is something weird about the AirPods Pro product line. I think a lot of us who are very technology focused can appreciate the marvel of engineering that they are. Long battery life, excellent noise cancellation, the right weight, wate
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In the late 90s, while in high school, I built an FM transmitter and with a few friends ran a weekend pirate ration station. (AMF - Anonymous Mother ....) The kit was sold by a company called Ramsay Electronics. It was 1 watt and with the r
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I'd love to check out your service if you care to share the name here?
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Even if this number slides to 50% in a few years, we've accelerated what would have probably taken 20 years or more of transition in to just a few years. The impact on every city and region outside the historical major growth centres w
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How is this any different than Plaid? How has Plaid managed to avoid a lawsuit like this?
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It is just debt then.
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There was an app in 2007 called Dopplr. [1] It was part of the wave of new social networks that were to (and did) change how we use software. It was actually really useful and I met many people through it that I never would have otherwise.
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Something about this story is just so amazing to me. This is the kind of thing I always dreamed the internet would enable for people. So cool.
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To many of us these are technological marvels. Defenders of our lifestyle and enabler of our ambitions and dreams. To many people in the world these are insidious death machines that lurk unimpeded and can rain down death on entire villages
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I relate completely with the comments here. I have only recently even managed to finish reading a couple of books, but it took me months. I would really like to blame how busy I am (new startup, 3 kids, other commitments), however I see my
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AWS once tried/looked at/toyed with buying my company, mostly on the basis of the 'developer experience' we had created. In the end they didn't buy us and the aped everything they learned and launched a carbon copy
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I think we in the west need something like a 'doctrine of the foregone conclusion'. Often things are very obvious, even notorious, but because we do not want to face the eventuality, we do things like negotiate or perseverate our
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This is not the case where I am in Canada, but your comment caused me to check Google Images. https://www.google.com/search?q=gabion+wall What is going on here? This is a totally bizarre architectural element.
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This podcast/series is so intensely good it is hard to describe to people. Partially because it is devoid of any commercial intent, it's simply raw history presented in an extremely accessible digest.
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Ford had a US$657 million IPO in 1956. You can easily argue their hegemony lasted at least 60 years. Amazon's public IPO was 1997. We are now ~20+ years in to their life as a public company. How do you view Amazon if you believe they h
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Many larger b2b companies operate with a GM model. Why? Their businesses are a portfolio of products that essentially need a CEO rather than a PM. True P&L accountability and control. Different products within the company will have diff
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The TLDW; is: Get traction, don't be desperate, build a healthy company. There is some discussion about timing and that it's a bad idea to raise before you have a suitable metric that indicates you are on a successful path. The fu

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