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AI makes it really easy to build things until you realize you don't know what to build. You may think you know what you want to build until you start to build it, only to find out that not only have you not defined some of the requirements
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How US users might get around Trump's Tiktok and Wechat bans.
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We talk a lot about users owning their own data. Data ownership means control. Having control means taking responsibility. Responsibility is a lot of work! Let me explain… For the past year, this blog made a temporary move over to the salibra.com domain. The reason for this move was
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Why federated chat protocol XMPP died and lessons for today's decentralization movement
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Control of your personal identity isn’t something the Internet is known for. It’s more famous for taking away control of your information and giving it to big companies can monetize it. Bitcoin blockchain technology promises to change that. Those that know me know I’m a huge fan
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Just finished day #4 with the Apple Watch. I keep getting asked what I think about it so I'm collecting my impressions here. Some background: I'm not a watch guy. I have little interest in expensive mechanical watches and haven't worn a watch since
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Great post about in ChinaLawBlog about how China is putting an end to so-called variable interest entities (VIEs) that most of China's large internet companies, including Tencent, Sina and Baidu, used to IPO overseas and raise funds from foreign investors. Yet, the remarkable fact is that these
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Paul Graham in his latest treatise argues that the USA should allow more foreign tech workers into the country. American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US. Anti-immigration people say that instead of letting
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Great conversation with NYU artificial intelligence expert Gary Marcus by Russ Robert on EconTalk puts our progress on AI in perspective. TL;DR: Progress on artificial intelligence as we know it today is almost all the result of brute force and not actual intelligence. people have always been saying it&
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My friend Michael Michelini asked me why visitors to his blog sometimes get sent to a Russian .ru site when they try to visit his blog. He asked his IT friend about the problem and was told he couldn't replicate it. Never send an IT guy to do
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Google recently opened up a field trial of it's Google+ Facebook/Twitter competitor. So far, reaction to G+ has been largely positive among the early adopter crowd. Google+ has even earned a stamp of approval from the Chinese government which blocked Google+ within days of its launch...a
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All of our internal production sites starting in 2009 have been launched with dual stack IPv4/IPv6 from day one. We typically serve static assets (images and javascript) from our content delivery network to improve load performance. Unfortunately, the CDN we use is IPv4 only. The following Ruby on Rails