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medium.com 6y ago

Reflections on a Failed Startup

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www.theatlantic.com 7y ago

Bike Share Graveyards

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Intertwingularity

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www.wsj.com 8y ago

How Killers Bought Guns They Weren't Supposed to Get

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www.wsj.com 8y ago

Machines Took Over the Stock Market. Next Up, Bonds

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www.reuters.com 9y ago

British Airways left to count cost of weekend IT meltdown

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www.taxhistory.org 9y ago

Presidential Tax Returns over the years

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests Now on YouTube

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anchoreditions.com 9y ago

Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps

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kasrarahjerdi.com 9y ago

Some Things That Make Me Scared

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www.reuters.com 10y ago

Relatives of Palestinian attack victims sue Facebook for $1B

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killedbypolice.net 10y ago

People Killed by Police – Unofficial Statistics

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www.kegel.com 10y ago

The C10K Problem (2004)

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Public School 188 – Where Nearly Half of Pupils Are Homeless

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Obama to Help Push for Open Market for Cable Set-Top Boxes

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blog.udacity.com 10y ago

Udacity will Refund Tuition if you Fail to get a Job in 6 months

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omeleto.com 10y ago

Data Visualization of WWII Fatalities

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vimregex.com 10y ago

VIM Regex (2002)

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www.reuters.com 10y ago

New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

The Narrative Frays for Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Greenland is Melting Away

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

The Solution to Drug Prices

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www.kickstarter.com 10y ago

How the FBI Routinely Circumvents First Amendment Rights – Documentary Film

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github.com 10y ago

Genetic Access Control Using 23AndMe

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Super PAC Donor Breakdown

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www.nature.com 11y ago

'Devious Defecator' case is a landmark for US genetic-privacy law

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twitter.com 11y ago

Anti-Cheating Drones Used During Chinese National Exam

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wolfstreet.com 11y ago

Dumping American Junk Bonds in Japan

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thenextweb.com 11y ago

RealNetworks Launches RealTimes - A Photo Sharing Service

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blog.textit.in 11y ago

Why Buying Provisioned IOPS on RDS Might Be a Mistake

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And the best thing of all: they crawl the stupidest pages possible. Recently, both ChatGPT and Amazon were - at the same time - crawling the entire edit history of the wiki. And I mean that - they indexed every single diff on every page for every change ever made.

Is it stupid? It makes sense to scrape all these pages and learn the edits and corrections that people make.

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I also cut cable 8 years ago and haven't turned back.

It was hard at first for sports because I had to watch random internet streams that were often bad quality, getting shutdown or full of browser ads (just use adblocker.)

In the last few years it has gotten a lot better. Almost every network has an AppleTV/Amazon Fire/Hulu app or online streaming service with cable quality streaming. Most of them require you to have cable subscription, but thats easily circumvented by using a friend's TV login.

'...[they] literally "smashed" on the keyboard to see what would happen when arbitrary keys were pressed together. Using that smashing technique, the researchers were able to figure out how to escape the kiosk mode.'

They also just invented the newest SaaS model: "Smashing as a Service"

I don't agree with it, but the Bloomberg administration in NYC tried a program where they bought one-way plane tickets for homeless families[1] to leave the overcrowded shelter system. Critics were against it because it wasn't addressing any of the root causes of the problem, rather just moving/hiding it in a similar way to the bulldozing of "the Jungle"

I am struggling to find the name of the program in the article in order to see if it has "worked" in any way to reduce homelessness. Not sure if it is even still around.

EDIT: It's called Project Reconnect[2] and it is still around even though De Blasio apparently was against it[3]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29oneway.html [2] http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/3601/project-recon... [3] http://nypost.com/2014/09/06/de-blasio-has-sent-1412-homeles...

Hello, World 11 years ago

Good for you man. I took a year to do the same thing and travel.

The first step for me was creating a blog and writing a similar post, reflecting on what I had been doing and what was about to change. I also wrote down a lot of things I wanted to do in that next year. While I only did a handful of them, its great to look back now a few years later and see where my mindset was.

It is also great to reflect on the things that I did do on that year off that were so amazing, the things which I didn't write down, because they weren't even things I could imagine. That's the best part, realizing you've broadened your horizons.

:a toast: Wishing you do many unimaginable things.