Huawei’s P10 smartphone. Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge The heads of six major US intelligence agencies have warned that American citizens shouldn’t use products and services made by Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE. According to a report from CNBC , the intelligence chiefs made the…

https://agingmillennialengineer.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/fuck-you-i-like-guns-2/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Choppy markets make everyone nervous. Here are six tips for helping you to eliminate emotion from your trading and become a more risk-aware investor: Think about risk first – It’s tempting to think about all of the profit you’ll make if you’re right, but far more important to understand what happens…

Some young people say they won’t ring or answer the doorbell because they are far more comfortable announcing an arrival by text message. Photo: ISTOCK Chanan Walia, a sophomore at University of California, Berkeley, can’t remember the last time he used a doorbell or even knocked on a door. At home,…

For the past year, weekly senior staff meetings at global firm Salesforce have been attended by an artificial intelligence (AI) machine known as "Einstein." Marc Benioff, the cloud-based software company's CEO, revealed Thursday that he relied on the software every Monday morning. Speaking on a…

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/internet-platform-monopoly-threats-by-roger-mcnamee-2018-01

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-downward-spiral/amp?__twitter_impression=true

In an effort to promote my upcoming presentation at SaaStr 2018 , which is currently on the agenda for Wednesday, February 7th at 9:00 AM in Studio C, I thought I’d do a quick post sharing what I’ll be covering in the presentation, officially titled, “The Best of Kellblog: 10 Non-Obvious Things…

The Local @thelocalgermany 24 January 2018 08:36 CET+01:00 afd islam politics brandenburg Share this article Photo: DPA The Local news@thelocal.de @thelocalgermany 24 January 2018 08:36 CET+01:00 The Alternative for Germany is known for its mantra that “Islam doesn’t belong in Germany.” Now a senior…

In cities from San Francisco to New York, and Houston to Atlanta for that matter, we hear the buzz of easy, quick lifestyle choices these days. Just hop in an Uber to get to the restaurant—forget driving and insuring your own car! Summon DoorDash to get a hot meal delivered to your home; why buy…

In celebration of New York Magazine’s 50th anniversary, this weekly series, which will continue through October 2018, tells the stories behind key moments that shaped the city’s culture. In the summer of 1988, the hedge-fund manager Donald Sussman took a call from a former Columbia University…

Strelka Institute/Flickr/Attribution License Both teenagers and adults seem to be suffering from an unhappiness epidemic, according to psychological research. A new study finds the rise of digital technology such as smartphones, laptops, and social media have been a major factor. People may be able…

What should an investor do when all asset classes appear overpriced? The 10-year U.S. Treasury bond currently yields about 2.6%, much lower than the 5% historical average and only slightly higher than the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target. Yields of lower-quality bonds are unusually meager…

http://timharford.com/2018/01/why-you-should-check-email-less-often-and-how-to-do-it/

By Mark Gamache Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain! Wherever you turn, someone seems to be talking about blockchain technology and how it’s poised to change the finance industry (among others)! So, what is it, exactly? Blockchain technology first made a splash in the financial sector with the…

A simple system to tell you what to do today to accomplish your big goals. It turns out that a massive project is really just a very long list of todos. Here’s how I reduce that massive list into a simple daily todo list. I call it the Daily Action Funnel. Copy this Google Spreadsheet or create your…

Co-written by Tim Soulo (CMO @ Ahrefs) & Dmitry Gerasimenko (CEO & Founder @ Ahrefs) Here at Ahrefs, we don’t like to obsess over metrics. But at the risk of bragging, here’s one number we’re proud of: We’ve grown our ARR by more than 65% two years straight (+83% in 2016 & +65% in 2017). How did we…

Filecoin could be a game changer for the crypto space. It’s one of the few projects that are extremely well thought out, built by an amazing team, and actually needed. Add to that the fact that they created a new proof mechanism and have a legitimate need for a blockchain. In other words, it’s…

Joe Frank, whose radio monologues brought listeners to strange new places, in an undated photograph. Michal Story Joe Frank, who stretched the boundaries of radio storytelling with mind-bending, absurdist monologues often fueled by his neuroses and his dark view of the world, died on Monday in…

I know we’ve hit a number of these points individually before on SaaStr, but after getting the question again and again, I thought it would be worthwhile to assemble a Top 10 List on mistakes made in hiring your first sales team. Because it seems like so many of us just make these mistakes again,…

Cryptocurrency prices are tumbling once again overnight with Ripple getting smashed... Bitcoin is back below $12,000 and Ethereum testing down towards $1000... There are no clear catalysts but @IamJosephYoung notes that the South Korean government previously announced that under-aged investors and…

In 2014, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja were bitcoin-obsessed engineers hanging out at pizza-fueled meetups in San Francisco. Their conversation often turned to the central problem of bitcoin: How to make it more useful? The bitcoin network’s design effectively limits it to handling three to seven…

I am sending this message from the year 2025. Things are looking bleak here, and some of you will carry blood on your hands. If you don't believe me, please move on, as I have no way of proving to you I'm really who I claim to be. I don't want to waste any of your time, so I'm merely going to…

Chronicle Review Illustration by Scott Seymour ( Source ) C hristian Smith, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, wrote a true but trollish column for the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. He titled the piece " Higher Education is Drowning in BS ." His list of…

The insight could lead to fewer unnecessary C-sections being performed By 2:49pm, January 16, 2018 Email Print Twitter Facebook Reddit Google+ PRECONCIEVED NOTIONS A decades-old idea about how quickly a woman’s labor should progress has not held up in recent studies. Tyler Olson/Shutterstock Email…

Editor’s Note : Christine Magee is an editor for CrunchBase. Hiring is going high tech thanks to a crop of new venture investments. Recruiting can be a nightmare for companies of all stages and sizes – it’s a time suck for current employees, often a shot in the dark in terms of candidate search and…

Just a month ago, as friends and families prepared to gather for the holiday season, the men and women at the U.S. Census Bureau were busy releasing their latest annual estimates of population changes across the United States. With the hustle and bustle of the season, many Americans missed the…

A year ago, before the investor lawsuits and the federal investigations, before the mass resignations, and before the connotation of the word “Uber” shifted from “world’s most valuable startup” to “world’s most dysfunctional,” Uber’s executives sat around a hotel conference room table in San…

About halfway through his essay “ Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool ,” George Orwell offers a startling explanation for Leo Tolstoy’s notorious antipathy towards Shakespeare: Tolstoy is “trying to rob others of a pleasure he does not share.” Further, “Tolstoy does not know, perhaps, just what he misses in…

I love what I do. As a venture capitalist I support brilliant founders as they build companies that have the potential to reshape the world. It rarely comes as a surprise to anyone when I say I plan to be a VC for the rest of my career. However, it almost always surprises when I say that in holding…

Sixteen months ago, Ripple raised $55 million by selling equity in a typical Silicon Valley funding round from strategic investors, following earlier financing from Alphabet 's GV (Google Ventures), Andreessen Horowitz and others. The round placed the value of the company around $400 million . Today…

Bitcoin is currently having congestion issues, and is facing a political battle over said congestion. The same could have been said about BitTorrent starting around 2007. By 2010, in a spirit of cooperation between competitors, the pain rapidly began to fade. A similar spirit of cooperation can help…

Featured May 30, 2016 | By Allen Scott - | 6896 | Today, major banks are touting their mobile banking apps as the next best thing. But are these “innovations” or just renovations on the proverbial deck of the Titanic? And similar to how BitTorrent impacted the entertainment industry, would incumbent…

Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities…

China is set on stopping its citizens from trading bitcoin. Chinese authorities plan to widen their crackdown on domestic crypto-trades, by targeting methods including over-the-counter trading, offshore sites used for centralized trading, and peer-to-peer trading of large transactions, according to…

layer innocent nothing argue pottery winner cotton menu task slim merge maid T he sequence of words is meaningless: a random array strung together by an algorithm let loose in an English dictionary. What makes them valuable is that they’ve been generated exclusively for me, by a software tool called…

Background This is a follow-up from an earlier post, “ Stablecoins are doomed to fail ,” from December 10th. I’ll keep this one short. Long have I been a critic of the “stablecoin” concept – the techno-magical idea that a cryptocurrency can tell the market what its price should be, rather than the…

A brief history of the stablecoin Those of you who have been following this blog for awhile may recall my deep and enduring disdain for the “stablecoin” concept, that is, the idea that it is possible for “crypto-economic” magic and game theory to ensure that a cryptocurrency can be reliably pegged…

This is the latest in my ICO mania series of blog posts. I have written a follow-up to this post, The Bear Case for Crypto, Part IV: Bitprime Loans . Background A couple of months ago, when the price of 1 Bitcoin hovered around a relatively benign $5,000, I sat down for coffee with an investor who…

This is the latest installment in my series of posts about ICO Mania . A question of liquidity On Sunday , I pointed out that Bitcoin, by setting itself up as a sort of decentralized bank, was also creating an unreasonable expectation to its new “depositors” that they will always be able to redeem…