Ford Made the Perfect Ad in Response to Saudi Arabia Lifting Its Ban on Women Drivers
‘Welcome to the driver’s seat’
Hasnain says:
This is an amazing ad, with an idea stolen from an indie artist :/
Posted on 2017-09-29T04:51:22+0000
Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet?
Now we have the "Russia-hacked-the-voting-systems-of-21-states" to add to this trash heap of debunked official claims. Is this a healthy climate?
Hasnain says:
"Regardless of your views on Russia, Trump and the rest, nobody can possibly regard this climate as healthy. Just look at how many major, incredibly inflammatory stories, from major media outlets, have collapsed. Is it not clear that there is something very wrong with how we are discussing and reporting on relations between these two nuclear-armed powers?"
Posted on 2017-09-29T04:19:54+0000
We’re sending our daughters into a workplace designed for our dads
In January 1949, Fortune magazine advertised a survey of its readership. The ad announced: “We have just completed a statistical portrait of men, like
Stream VByte: breaking new speed records for integer compression
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Posted on 2017-09-28T06:59:01+0000
YC’s Essential Startup Advice
A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve collected here what we at YC consider the most important, most transformative advice for startups. Whether common sense or counter-intuitive, the gu
CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
Who placed the JavaScript code on two primetime dot-coms? So far, it's a mystery
This Startup Is Luring Top Talent With $3 Million Salary Packages
China may have a reputation for low wages and sprawling factories. But in a sign of changing times, one startup founder has embraced a strategy of paying top employees the highest salaries in the market -- and so far it's working.
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Posted on 2017-09-25T02:34:53+0000
Given One Year To Live, Facebook Engineer Chooses To Share His Gift With Others
Rising from intern to management, 32-year-old Eric Sun has had a great career at Facebook. Ask him what's most important to him, however, and he'll not only say something else but spend the rest of his life proving it. Garvin Thomas reports.
Opinion | Pakistan, Let’s Talk About Sex
The country’s population is exploding because the state is too coy about family planning.
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Posted on 2017-09-24T06:15:15+0000
Opinion | How to Win a War on Drugs
Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.
Hasnain says:
"It’s not a miracle or perfect solution. But if the U.S. could achieve Portugal’s death rate from drugs, we would save one life every 10 minutes. We would save almost as many lives as are now lost to guns and car accidents combined"
Posted on 2017-09-23T07:20:32+0000