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Samsara's founders also previously started and sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2 billion. Pretty rare to have founded 2 unicorns in ~15 years.

Criticism of the company's product seems pretty tangential to the blog post. Either way, the value provided comes not from the labeling alone, but from the platform it provides to …

There are plenty of jobs that pay better and don't require you to devote your lives to the company (incidentally, one of them is mentioned in the article). If a firm wants people w…

Except a lot of governments have indeed enacted policies that protect tenants and employees during this period.

Columbia, UC Berkeley and Dartmouth too. I think this move is gaining traction.

Sure, but even among the remaining 2/3rds, meat consumption is much lower, compared to other regions where they typically eat meat every meal.

$9 an hour works out to about 100,000 rupees a month, which allows one to live relatively comfortably in India.

Works for me (FF on Ubuntu)

Singapore might be a flawed democracy, but it still is one. The ruling party does fear losing vote share in elections and adapts its policies to win public support (e.g. in the 201…

Wouldn't the user's speech data need to be sent to Apple to convert to text, or identify the intent first?

I don't see why this could not be possible on Android. All Google needs to do is build an API for Assistant that other apps can use to 'donate' frequently used actions/intents. Ass…

While I agree that Ivy League admissions could be more transparent, I certainly hope they don't move to the Oxbridge style of purely focusing on academics. University admissions ar…

I doubt it would make much of a dent in their reputation. It is already widely perceived (whether true or not) that children of important donors, legacies and other groups get pref…

The key difference is that designers are free to show the work they've done in their current jobs or internships. Programmers usually aren't at liberty to do the same.

I daresay sharing memes is arguably the most commonplace use of Facebook among teens nowadays.

Students in elite American universities (ivy-plus) come from the top 1% of all American students in their cohort, not to mention other countries. However dismal American performanc…