The Silicon Valley paradox: one in four people are at risk of hunger
Exclusive: study suggests that 26.8% of the population qualify as ‘food insecure’ based on risk factors such as missing meals or relying on food banks
We messed up. We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change. - The Patreon Blog
Creators and Patrons, We’ve heard you loud and clear. We’re not going to rollout the changes to our payments system that we announced last week. We still have to fix the problems that those changes addressed, but we’re going to fix them in a different way, and we’re going to work with you to...
The Merge
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced...
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Posted on 2017-12-08T03:54:03+0000
Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy
The San Francisco start-up has been at the center of the virtual currency boom. But like any young company, it is experiencing growing pains.
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Posted on 2017-12-07T16:55:27+0000
"Red Blob Games: Hexagonal Grids"
"Guide to math, algorithms, and code for hexagonal grids in games"
"Cinemark announces $8.99-a-month subscription service to fill more seats \u2014 and take on MoviePass"
"Cinemark, the nation's third-largest theater chain, on Tuesday said customers who pay the monthly fee of $8.99 will get a credit for one movie ticket a month, plus additional tickets for $8.99 each. The deal also includes a 20\u0025 discount on food and drinks."
Hasnain says:
all I can say is: "lol".
not sure how this takes on movie pass since this is $8.99/mo for *one* ticket...
Posted on 2017-12-07T05:20:21+0000
Why are America's farmers killing themselves in record numbers?
The suicide rate for farmers is more than double that of veterans. Former farmer Debbie Weingarten gives an insider’s perspective on farm life – and how to help
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Posted on 2017-12-07T04:33:15+0000
Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance
Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy.
Hasnain says:
America continues to disappoint me. Sad that this had to ever happen.
"The two men started talking and texting a few times a week. “I think he has a mental illness that allows him to think he did nothing wrong,” Therrien told me. (Tucker didn’t respond to most of my emailed questions and kept putting off interview requests. “Lies are not stories,” he wrote in one email. He said that any debt he’d sold was legitimate.)"
Posted on 2017-12-07T04:27:37+0000
Is there data on the quality of management decisions?
A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly be eliminated. A contentious example of this is the claim that companies can’t be discriminating because the market ...
Hasnain says:
This a great read and analysis. So much good stuff.
"If we think about the general case, what’s happening is that decisions have probabilistic payoffs. There’s very high variance in actual outcomes (wins and losses), so it’s possible to make good decisions and not see the direct effect of them for a long time. Even if there are metrics that give us a better idea of what the “true” value of a decision is, if you’re operating in an environment where your management doesn’t believe in those metrics, you’re going to have a hard time keeping your job (or getting a job in the first place) if you want to do something radical whose value is only demonstrated by some obscure-sounding metric unless they take a chance on you for a year or two. There have been some major phase changes in what metrics are accepted, but they’ve taken decades."
Posted on 2017-12-07T02:59:31+0000
Senate Republicans Appear to Have Made a $289 Billion Mistake in Their Tax Bill
This is what happens when you pass handwritten legislation at 2 a.m.
Hasnain says:
This is what happens when you push a 2am hotfix to prod without peer review
Posted on 2017-12-07T01:53:49+0000