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Uber built Kraken to solve the same problem with distributing images: https://github.com/uber/kraken

Is there any difference between this and the kind of forced attrition that Meta and Google have also signaled recently?

Not to be confused with Uber's Zanzibar: https://github.com/uber/zanzibar

This reads like an April 1st gag. Is there a corroborating account from a different, reliable source?

The podcast Futility Closet had an entire episode on the book: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/05/18/podcast-episode-58...

Hey bbhat - glad to see you landed on your feet. :)

Revolutions by Mike Duncan. I've always been interested in History, but Revolutions has really deepened my understanding of how our nations and political philosophies came to be, a…

There's a good interview with the curators of the museum here: http://calvertjournal.com/features/show/4654 .

Probably worth pointing out that the website a forked version of Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski Very similar style to Infinite Jest, but the story seems much more sinister.