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If you’re a Delicious user, you will have to find another place to save your bookmarks. The site will stay online. but on June 15, I will put Delicious into read-only mode. You won't be able to save new bookmarks after that date, or use the API.
Hasnain says:
Pinboard acquires del.icio.us for $35k. How the mighty have fallen (Yahoo bought it for $15-30M)
"Even Yahoo, for whom mismanagement is usually effortless, had to work hard to keep Delicious down. I bought it in part so it wouldn’t disappear from the web."
Posted on 2017-06-02T05:24:06+0000
Here’s what happened when Iran introduced a basic income
The results surprised skeptics.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-06-02T03:18:46+0000
Google Will Help Publishers Prepare for a Chrome Ad Blocker Coming Next Year
Google has told publishers it will give them at least six months to prepare for a new ad-blocking tool the company is planning to introduce in its Chrome web browser next year, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-06-02T02:54:45+0000
Crafting Interpreters
This book contains everything you need to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You’ll learn both high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details like bytecode representation and garbage collection. Your brain will light up with new ideas, and your hands will g...
Gimme shelter: The super-rich are different: they pay less tax | The Economist
The Swiss leaks and Panama papers open a window on the tax-dodger’s world
Hasnain says:
"Their research leads to two conclusions. First, tax evasion is extremely concentrated (see chart). The average Scandinavian household paid around 3% too little in taxes in 2006; the richest 1% of households, with net assets of at least $2m, underpaid by around 10%. The truly rich, though, behave truly differently. The top 0.01% of households, with net assets of over $40m, short-changed the taxman by a whopping 30%."
Posted on 2017-06-02T02:48:05+0000
TLDR Stock Options
An easy tool to ballpark the value of startup options.
'Sense8' Canceled at Netflix
The cancellation comes a week after the streaming giant axed 'The Get Down.'
Hasnain says:
Haven't seen the show, but the reasons for cancelling it make no sense.
"News of the decision also comes a day after Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings told CNBC at the Code Conference that he thinks the content platform hasn't canceled enough shows. "Our hit ratio is way too high right now," he said. "I'm always pushing the content team; we have to take more risk, you have to try more crazy things, because we should have a higher cancel rate overall.""
Posted on 2017-06-02T01:45:29+0000
Netflix is stepping back from the fight for net neutrality
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings isn’t going to fight the rollback of the rules governing an open internet and believes change is coming no matter what.
Hasnain says:
""We're big enough to get the deals we want," he said during Recode's Code Conference on Wednesday."
Hypocrites...
Posted on 2017-06-01T11:14:19+0000
Career Monogamy: The Awkward Tech Sin of Longevity – Nemhouse
The Slack message was genuine and brief, “congrats on 20 years!” My name had apparently been listed on a slide during the quarterly all…
Hasnain says:
A great read on tech, career growth and companies in general.
"That experience opened my eyes to how the sausage gets made. All my naive conceptions of how executives always knew what to do were shattered. What I saw were incredibly smart people spending most of their time trying to do what they believed was right for the company, and the rest of their time engaged in political jousting with other executives who were fighting for investment and visibility."
Posted on 2017-06-01T06:51:11+0000
Ohio Sues 5 Major Drug Companies For 'Fueling Opioid Epidemic'
The state's attorney general filed the lawsuit Wednesday, alleging fraudulent marketing. "They knew they were wrong," Mike DeWine says, "but they did it anyway — and they continue to do it."
Hasnain says:
"As All Things Considered notes, the state of Ohio estimates some 200,000 people within its borders are addicted to opioids — a number roughly the same as Akron's entire population"
Posted on 2017-06-01T06:34:52+0000