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Saudi money in the startup world isn’t new. SoftBank is bundles quite a bit of it under a less-noxious brand.

Most of those pigs are, by western standards, inedible. With the exception of the very young adults (and the piglets), their meat is tough and has a very objectionable gamer/musty/…

The NSA does exactly that.

The time plot of CO2 in the bedroom is sobering - it seems that they’re reaching levels where CO2 causes cognitive impairment.

Reminder, with Facebook’s restructuring, it’s no longer FAANG, it’s G-MAAN.

LinkedIn is a career and promotional tool. Some people use it to discuss their work, some people discuss their work environment.

If you want to call people out for passive aggression, well, that’s your choice, I guess. Not what I’d do, but hey, whatever makes you happy.

Seems like a lawsuit magnet.

This is probably an API gateway fronting Spark NLP and a mini GPT. They have 25 engineers, what do they all do?

That all sounds great, but you’d better be sure about the “causes of criminal behavior.” Not everyone agrees on that, and as such, you might be unpleasantly surprised at what ultim…

Target has started closing their San Francisco stores at 6pm as a response to the increase in theft. Do you really think that this wasn't a data-driven decision, and that Target as…

Why would the police arrest a suspect if they already know the suspect won't be prosecuted That's what's really happening here.

This is the first time I have ever heard the claim that the CCP's hold on power is anything but rock solid. Unless you mean that specific leaders within the party have a tenuous ho…

Sorry - what’s a CRUD startup? CRUD as in create, read, update, delete?

You should probably offer him sexual favors in exchange for excellent performance. I’m sure your HR department will be fine with it.

My strategy is to ignore the license and do whatever the hell I want. So far I’ve been 100% successful with it.

For those of us who want to start an indie one-person SaaS, this is sobering - because it means that for a while, you’ll be doing all 50 of these jobs. And, paid far less than any …

As much as I hate _Kelo vs. City of New London_, I can see the temptation in this case to invoke eminent domain and hand over those vacant properties to another private owner who w…

Same here. Weeding and trimming my small yard now fills my weekly compost bin, that never used to happen in the past couple of decades.

The quotations excepted from his videos are unsettling but ultimately positive - apparently he’s talking about his journey to overcome anti-Semitism. But in a way, the central mess…

The score is a masterpiece though.

Thanks for bringing some sanity and perspective to this discussion. Just like we judge some ancient civilizations for human sacrifice as a way of securing prosperity (or whatever),…

The political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has done some very significant work in showing exactly that, and has built robust and successful empirical models demonstrating and …

Totally agreed with this. MongoDB’s default security posture is ridiculous, and amazingly it used to be even worse.

I’ve seen 4chan. I honestly mean no offense to you, but I can’t imagine there is anyone who contributes here who could tolerate that.