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"Is Revenue Model More Important than Culture?" is a very interesting read, I read it twice, once yesterday, once again today while taking notes about it. The "dominant term rule" …

You frame corruption as financial gravity, fixable by governance design at the firm level. But the dollar's strength has been reinforced for fifty years by oil trading in dollars. …

I wish you the best, my brother-in-law (also a close friend) lost his fight against cancer in 2019, it changed my perception of life forever. What we live is a bit like how we die,…

As long as banking works with web browsers, I think the future looks good for this usage, but I could de-bank my phone and still have plenty of useful things to do with it.

5 years ago, we had a major performance issue with our platform as a service (PaaS). I migrated our service to AWS in a rush just to get us back running smoothly again. Temporarily…

Yes, and second analysis by an independent party: https://socket.dev/blog/npm-provenance

This tool make it easier to use: https://github.com/lynaghk/sandboxtron

Vegans are and were as happy as vegetarians to eat non-processed vegetables patties. I could push this point further by stating that a high percentage of vegans are turned off by t…

This guy is a car salesman, no wonder he wants to force an in office working policy.

It’s all virtue signaling in the end so we could just call it that.

It's absolute bonker, the patent got granted. The current state of the patent system is a complete joke.

Exactly, this kind if import without a hash validation is a big no for security reasons (unless you 100% trust your import source). This feature exists on the browser side with the…

Projet N95 is a legit organization. They were an official member of a project I volunteered for at the beginning of the pandemic: https://c19coalition.org/directory Eric Ries (The …

We use it as a flow designer, we export the graph data it produces to handle real procution code. It's open source, highly customizable & well made.

I'm very happy about this, an official support to run Workers locally. I invested some of my personal time to get this tool, I submitted a patch on a community project (since Cloud…

It's already possible to move money between accounts without cryptocurrencies: banks, payments systems (example Paypal), fund transfer services (example Interac). The transactions …

Worldwide glaciers are shrinking: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/... I don't know about your example or your source. When you refer to climate changes,…

I feel like sharing my experience I had with the YC Startup School program might be appreciated by some of you. I joined the program when it was first announced. It means I followe…

I missed that detail. I personally would choose Vancouver over Ottawa but affordability can be an issue.

See the top rated comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27343109 Montreal isn't there because it wasn't rated. It would probably be above Toronto and Ottawa but below Vancou…

It might be overkill but I'm managing my small business with ERPNext (from that list). I'm surprised by the quality of the software and its user interface design. It seems I'm the …

Store of value like gold & crypto currency is an idea that has a clear side effect. There will be inflation, it's how governments move the economy around. Yet, bankers and crypto f…