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Yesterday: "Twitter CEO Dick Costolo laughs off 'crazy' calls for his resignation"[0] [0] (warning: auto-play video on page) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/twitter-ceo-dick-costolo-laughs-off...
I had 2 autoplay videos and 1 popup, ibtimes has really gone to shit.
Glassdoor: 88% CEO approval rating from 220 ratings. It's interesting that there is such a disconnect between employees and stakeholders. On a related note Chris Sacca wrote this blog [0] titled "What twitter can be" last week. [0]: http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2...
The only way to allow that connection is to have employees as a collective majority shareholder
Problem of course is that traditional investing is how you get startup funds.
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Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. If our "leaders" stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.
If it was wildly successful, how did we end up with tons of private competitors with a large market share (FedEx, UPS, DHL, OnTrac, etc). The U.S. Is one of the only countries where the state run postal service isn't sufficient. In Switzerland, for example, there is only the Swiss Post. Most countries, to my knowledge, operate with just one major postal network.
The last mile of shipping is the most expensive. In the US, there are tons of last miles that are thousands of miles from very large cities.
Switzerland is a tiny country relative to the US, so it's much cheaper to deliver mail.
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It's maintained by the original author. The readme is a good place to start researching, but it's not that interesting a topic tbh. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md
I read this and the wiki page and still have no idea which I should run (usually Chrome / Mac if that matters). I'm using non-Origin right now.
Note: that's an old version. The current revision is here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Maintainership-transf...
It doesn't seem to matter which fork you use, but I personally use uBlock Origin
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I just bought "Hatching Twitter" yesterday, so I guess this might be a spoiler, but why did they fire Ev?
Because Ev's a great product guy but not such a great manager. Speaking of which, Jack's also better at coding / product than managing himself. (i worked at the company before both 'founders' jack and ev joined as employees.)
What he should do: 1: reopen the API up to everyone, guaranteeing access for 10 years. Let's the clients bloom. 2: reduce rhose costs. Insane. 3: That's it.
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Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. If our "leaders" stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.
> Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. You have to be kidding! The USPS is a disaster and barely works. I'm about to cancel my prime membership because Amazon started using the USPS although Amazon have finally got the message at least for my account and rarely use them now. Look up Prime and USPS if you want to see pages and pages just how bad service is with the USPS.
Then I moved to Chicago and understood why the USPS gets such a bad rap. Lines a mile long, counter agents that can be called uncaring at best, tons of misdelivered/undelivered mail, etc. It was like two entirely different services.
I'm since back in Minneapolis and the USPS here is just as reliable as UPS or Fedex. 9 out of 10 packages arrive on time, which is about average for all of them.
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The problem with this, as an early Twitter user (summer 2006), is that I don't really want Twitter to significantly change. The minimalism is a feature. It was SMS on the web. I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility, but that's impossible now because it's been "monetized."
Users don't want change unless it's really good change, then it's the best thing that can happen. Here's what Twitter used to look like: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/188430472 https://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/190576959 I remember those days too and the product is much better now. It could be much better still.
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The problem with this, as an early Twitter user (summer 2006), is that I don't really want Twitter to significantly change. The minimalism is a feature. It was SMS on the web. I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility, but that's impossible now because it's been "monetized."
> I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility Twitter is a business, how were you expecting this to work? For the USG to aqui-hire them?