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Worth noting that this is the blog's first post. I like the tone, the humor, and the sheer nerve of writing something like this. It's inspirational without being preachy. It's also…

Google pulled support for its search API long before wave, leaving developers who started to build on it high and dry.

Wave was a perfect example of leading with technology rather than the problem to be solved. Nothing I ever saw or read about it spoke to a specific user problem. Sure, Google has p…

> “What Elon Musk wants to produce is a lifestyle,” Zulkifli said Wednesday when asked about the entrepreneur’s comments. “We are not interested in a lifestyle. We are interested i…

> From the point of view of the USA, this must start with a new administration. Not much happened under the old administration. Things got worse.

> Personal choice matters little globally. Is not the personal, voluntary choice to use Facebook a decision that matters globally? There is no compulsion or legislation there. At l…

How is that incompatible with what I said?

Given the dwindling space for burials: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2017/11/03/urban-cemeter... and the energy/greenhouse gas emission costs of cremation, I can see this tak…

I'm sure the emotions are genuine, but articles like this leave me with a sense that those concerned are waiting for others (especially "leaders") to make something happen. They wa…

> This was the sharpest downward revision in jobs totals since 2009, when the economy was just starting to emerge from the Great Recession. It's not clear what number the article i…

For those wondering why anyone would buy such a thing, consider: - Many financial institutions are required to hold a certain percent of portfolio in safe assets. German bunds are …

> Some $2.5 billion worth of subprime loans, those with FICO credit scores below 690, ended up in mortgage bonds in the first quarter of 2019. That is more than double a year earli…

The draft document here: https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/G... appears to be incomplete. Specifically, pages 3-7 appear to be missing. From the article: >…

Maybe because: > You've completed your member preview for this month, but when you sign up for a free Medium account, you get one more story. Not gonna happen.

> ‘We thought that, in general, all of these amino acids would react similarly because they are structurally similar,’ says Leman. But while almost all the experiments did produce …

Warren's blog uses the Microsoft antitrust case as a precedent: > In the 1990s, Microsoft — the tech giant of its time — was trying to parlay its dominance in computer operating sy…

> We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change. …

> Firstly, China has devalued the yuan to offset the rising tariffs that the United States has been imposing. In fact, China has devalued the yuan significantly since the Trump adm…

> Surprisingly, the root cause of bad software has less to do with specific engineering choices, and more to do with how development projects are managed. The worst software projec…