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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What are less-known best practices for email deliverability?

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stratechery.com 6y ago

Google and Ambient Computing

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stratechery.com 6y ago

Beachheads and Obstacles

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

How Much Is an Idea Worth? In Uber’s Case, $3.7B

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tim.blog 8y ago

Michael Pollan – Exploring the New Science of Psychedelics

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

How to Serve a Deranged Tyrant, Stoically

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Am I the only one who thinks Dropbox pricing is baffling?

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techcrunch.com 8y ago

The Dinner That Destroyed Gawker

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www.thedailybeast.com 8y ago

Peter Thiel Got His Revenge On Gawker. He May Yet Regret It

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

The Secret History of the Plot Against Gawker

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observer.com 8y ago

Seriously, You–OK, We–Need to Stop Watching the News This Year

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What is the best resource out there keeping track of great tools?

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medium.com 8y ago

A Genius Explains How to Be Creative: Claude Shannon’s Long-Lost 1952 Speech

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a16z.com 8y ago

A16z Podcast: From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age

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www.businessinsider.com 8y ago

Claude Shannon used this 6-step process to solve any problem

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medium.com 9y ago

10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon: 12 Unforgettable Lessons from a Digital Genius

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Am I the only one who keeps returning Apple's EarPods?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: How do you deal with sites auto-playing ads/videos with sound?

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backchannel.com 9y ago

Uber Needs New Leadership

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What questions would you ask if you had full access to Facebook's data?

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backchannel.com 9y ago

A textbook case in workplace discrimination

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observer.com 9y ago

Want to Really Make America Great Again? Stop Reading the News

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Tech/Entrepreneurship conference in LA/NYC?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Google's early days

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Should I turn off cookies when booking on Expedia/Orbitz/Hipmunk etc?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What posters do you have hanging in your office/room?

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www.fastcompany.com 13y ago

The Secret That Defines Marketing Now

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en.wikipedia.org 13y ago

Narcotizing dysfunction

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blog.chasejarvis.com 13y ago

[Interview with Ryan Holiday] — How Creatives Can Win the PR Game

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www.nature.com 13y ago

Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap

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What are the legal implications of doing this based on jurisdiction? There are also ethical considerations. I expect this to be another thing which will be an 'open secret' in the tech/marketing worlds until other people find out about it and will be upset about.

I use email all the time and have never even remotely encountered a point where I would need something like this. Why wouldn't you simply refer to a subject line? And why would someone say "Did you see email E2YKW3" I can't imagine a single person saying that frankly.

I tried the most recent MacBook Pro keyboard over a weekend in September. Absolutely terrible experience, not to mention the Touch Bar. I hope my 2015 MBPro doesn't die on my before Apple fixes this.

Related: Can someone from the industry share what is the current status of vertical farming? Is this considered the future or the verdict is not out yet? Any good people/startups/articles to check out?

I was logged out of my account, but reviewing logs of devices that are using/have used my account in the past I don't see anything suspicious. What is the likelihood that the account was breached and accessed without triggering any of those systems? Is it plausible to speculate that it was possible for accounts to have been accessed without users receiving emails from Facebook?

I second reading Decisive.

If I were in your shoes, I'd do the following:

1) Sit down and write down your "poor" decisions. How could you have prevented them? What information was missing? Could you have known this piece of information in advance if you sought it out? Some of this will help you unpack how much it's you and how much it's situational.

2) Ask your friends about your decision-making style and ask for blunt feedback.

3) Ask yourself how much you should have listened to other people vs how much to yourself? You might need to calibrate your ego/confidence--you might be too trusting (or not trusting enough of yourself)

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For future decisions,

1) Try to make them rationally and not out of emotions. This is tricky because you have to trust your gut, but your gut can be just fear and anxiety.

2) Most important thing: How reversible is a decision? What is the downside? What is the upside? Never, ever make a decision that has a chance of ruin.

3) Always ask: How is this decision wrong? Always be able to articulate for each option what are the downsides. No decision is perfect but you have to be able to weigh the downsides, and also see the problematic aspects of each. This is critical if you fall in love with one answer to a fork on the road.

Hope this helps! And do read Decisive!

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The only time I've felt a strong urge to write to Apple was in regards to iTunes and my complete disbelief that they still haven't figured it out decades in. It's shockingly bad.

This article will have merit if it was posted after their next earnings call and there was a percentage decline in users. This is all anecdotal and speculation. Habits are the hardest thing to break. And 50,000 people, even if US-only, are a rounding error for their MAU/DAUs. C'mon, NYT.

Yes, sorry, I should have been more specific. But what 'exactly' do they know. Does CA know that each person liked EXAMPLE POST ID #12379 on DATE XX/XX/XXXX and that you also like BRAND1, BRAND2, and that you also posted STATUS UPDATE1 on DATE .... What exactly do they have?

Is it clear exactly what 'data' was actually obtained by CA on those millions of people? (I am referring specifically to the millions, not the original subset of 200,000 or so).

Is it all public and friends-visible activity? Or it is basics such as name, email, profile photo, etc.? I cannot find so far addressed in the coverage exactly what kind of information CA have had on a per-person basis.

If someone can share coverage that outlines this I would be very grateful.

Hope this doesn't sound too harsh but your reply comes off as extremely self-centered. What about looking—at the very least—at it from a legal perspective? It's not like lawsuits and aspects related to discovery haven't been in the tech news lately.

"Something only Google is capable of, because it is the only entity in the world controlling the most important information portal: search."

How is Google the only search engine? A different one is literally a click away. This just doesn't pass as an argument.