The day after an uncomfortable internal leak
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Protestors Blockade Private Tech Buses
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This Is How All Startups Should Fail
The Cult of Silicon Valley worships failure—fail fast!—but only after it's been reversed and perverted. Actually calling it quits, admitting that you didn't succeed, and declaring your project dead, is rare. But 4chan founder Christopher Poole just conceded with perfect dignity and intelligence.
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Terrible Idea Punished with Death
Have you ever yearned: I love the physical junk mail I get, but is there any way I could have it intercepted, opened by strangers, scanned, and routed directly to my email inbox, so I don't have to touch paper? San Francisco startup Outbox thought it had the solution. Maybe it did. Now it is gone. Good.
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Sploid Traveling in a Boeing 747 in the 1970s was pretty damn awesome | Paleofuture 12 More Viral Ph
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Twitter Fires Hated Exec
The name Ben Grossman might sound familiar if you read it here, this October, after the Head of Global Operations for Twitter Media sent an infamously
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Betas, a Struggling Silicon Valley Comedy, Deserves a Chance
If Betas
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Sheryl Sandberg Is a New Billionaire
Thanks to Facebook stock closing higher than ever, Bloomberg reports the company's COO
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Napster Cofounder Shawn Fanning Is Allegedly a Deadbeat Dad
When Jessica Wigsmoen first met Napster cofounder Shawn Fanning at a party at Sean Parker's West Village party house, she didn't think it would end like this. "I lived in New York, I had a really good life," Wigsmoen told me by phone last week. "I met this guy who acted like prince charming." Now, she claims Fanning is denying child support for their 2-year-old daughter, Scarlett.
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How I Hacked Snapchat's Dumb Anti-Robot Security In Less Than 30 Minutes
I woke up this morning and saw an article detailing Snapchat's new verification system designed to help cut back the snap spam that seems to be slowly infiltrating the service.
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Defamer Quentin Tarantino Throws Temper Tantrum After Script Leak | Paleofuture This Hilariously Ret
Defamer Quentin Tarantino Throws Temper Tantrum After Script Leak | Paleofuture This Hilariously Retro Soap Ad Promised You a Robot Butler | Regressing What You Need To Know To Bet On The Super Bowl (Early Edition) | Truck Yeah! 2015 Lincoln Navigator: This Is It | Kinja Popular Posts
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This is why we can't innovate nice things.
This is why we can't innovate nice things. Image via the Facebook profile of Sam Lessin, the social network's director of product management.
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Startup Removes Meritocracy Rug
This is either the greatest act of symbolism in Silicon Valley, or a quiet admission by GitHub that its ostentatious display of faux-democracy was misguided. Either way, a smart move, too late.
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Netflix has threatened to unleash hordes of protesting users in the "draconian scenario" that Net Ne
Netflix has threatened to unleash hordes of protesting users in the "draconian scenario" that Net Neutrality laws make it legal for ISPs to impede streaming video. Slower Netflix bingeing sounds more like a doomsday scenario.
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A Moment of Rare Silicon Valley Sanity from... Steve Case?
Hey, remember this guy? Among critics of Silicon Valley's virulent
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Ten tech firms including Google and Facebook "pumped a combined $61.15 million into efforts to influ
Ten tech firms including Google and Facebook "pumped a combined $61.15 million into efforts to influence federal regulators and lawmakers in 2013," up almost 16 percent. The only way to wield more influence would be if they become the politicians themselves.
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Passive-Aggressive Facebook Post Tells Princeton To Fuck Off
Last week, two Princeton researchers used an epidemiological model to predict that Facebook will soon lose 80 percent of its peak users base. Slate called the methods "fatally flawed" and everyone forgot about it until Facebook decided to be a total spazz.
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Paleofuture The Original ASCII Art Was Just This Guy and His Typewriter | Truck Yeah!
Paleofuture The Original ASCII Art Was Just This Guy and His Typewriter | Truck Yeah! The Pentagon Is Throwing A Free Army Truck Giveaway! | Defamer Now Shia LaBeouf Wants to Flog Himself Like a Medieval Monk | Regressing Map: Which States Produce The Most College Basketball Recruits? | Kinja Popular Posts
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Did you know that venture capitalists were not born infant investors with silver term sheets in thei
Did you know that venture capitalists were not born infant investors with silver term sheets in their mouths? Some had to struggle through the rigors of a "regular jobs" first. This "beautiful, life-affirming" revelation brought to you by TechCrunch.
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Uber's Dirty Trick Campaign Against NYC Competition Came From the Top
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There Will Be a Lean In Movie
Sheryl Sandberg's international best-seller, an odyssey of corporate-approved quasi
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