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  1. 1 hour ago

    Has anyone tested Google's MagicEraser on Stalin's rivals yet?

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  2. 1 hour ago

    9 yo was very amused to learn that the Roman Empire was invaded by the Goths. He couldn't stop laughing at the thought of Roman legions being vanquished by skinny, pale teenagers.

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    6 hours ago

    The most indisputably great news in medicine in a while!

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  4. Oct 18

    If you raise money you don't need, it will turn into expenses you shouldn't have.

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  5. Oct 18

    Apple got rid of the touch bar! Finally I can buy a new laptop.

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  6. Oct 18

    Founders often wonder whether they should raise money from investors. The answer to that one is surprisingly simple. You should raise money if and only if you (a) need money and (b) are currently appealing enough to get it.

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    Oct 17

    “If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will either fix it or come up with something better.” That’s why people matter. (from Creativity Inc. by Pixar’s CEO Ed Catmull)

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  8. Oct 17

    Whatever the problem is that this procedure is designed to avoid, Silicon Valley is evidence that it's not important.

    To make an investment in a German startup, I've had to use a notary to sign power of attorney, then send it to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to be apostilled. Then wait 3-4 weeks. Germany appears not to be a country that values investment in its startup ecosystem.
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  9. Oct 17

    Notice that every one of these logos embodies the noob mistake of trading legibility for distinctiveness. If you're designing a logo for your startup, I recommend you skip this stage and go straight to legibility.

    Early logos for Amazon, Google, Netflix and Twitter:
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    Oct 17

    I read this ACLU brief. This is the first time, at least to my knowledge, that ACLU is explicitly arguing in court that the First Amendment's free speech clause has been interpreted *too broadly* by courts, and are advocating *a more restrictive view* of what free speech means.

    BREAKING: Three teachers in Loudoun county are going to court simply because they don't want to use trans & nonbinary students' pronouns. 👀 We and partners filed an amicus brief to tell the court: Refusing to use a student's pronouns because of who they are is discrimination.
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  11. Oct 17

    Theranos execs in 2015 complaining that Ron Conway saw through them.

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  12. Oct 17

    A sign of how bad Google search has become: the page containing the original quote is not even on the first page of search results for it. Bing does better though:

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  13. Oct 17

    Here's what the center of Bristol looks like as a result. Good luck making that walkable. The upside is that more of the countryside around Bristol is preserved, but very much at the city's expense.

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  14. Oct 17

    If you're on the M4 and want to get to Bristol Airport, for example, Google tells you to go through the center of the city. "That can't be right," you think. But alas it is.

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  15. Oct 17

    Bristol answers a question that I hadn't previously considered: what happens when a city doesn't have a ring road? The answer is that all traffic goes through the center of the city.

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  17. Oct 17

    "After United Airlines mandated vaccines, there were only 232 holdouts among 67,000 employees."

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  18. Oct 17

    9 yo: Click here for an interesting fact. Me: Ok, what is it? 9 yo (singing): Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...

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  19. Oct 16

    For a long time it was a safe bet intellectually to be on the left. As a result it became a sort of custom among certain people. But as soon as that happened, it stopped being a safe bet.

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  20. Oct 16

    New cuisine very popular with kids: home-cooked McDonald's food. 1. Get plain burgers at McDonald's drive-thru. 2. Take them home, disassemble them, fry patties in butter, melt cheese on them, toast buns in oven, add condiments, reassemble. Fries remain an unsolved problem...

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