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Protestors Blockade Private Tech Buses
The day after an uncomfortable internal leak out of Google, anti-gentrification activists in San Francisco are attempting to shut down private shuttles from Facebook and Google, the old fashioned...
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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...
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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...
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Sploid Traveling in a Boeing 747 in the 1970s was pretty damn awesome | Paleofuture 12 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake | Defamer The Men of Full House Reunite in Embarrassing Yogurt Ad |...
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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 gross "joke" about loosing dogs on striking...
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Betas, a Struggling Silicon Valley Comedy, Deserves a Chance
If Betas, Amazon's newest web series about startup life, were a startup itself, it'd be time for a pivot. It just hasn't caught on. But even if it's not always good, it's important show—and, since it's...
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Sheryl Sandberg Is a New Billionaire
Thanks to Facebook stock closing higher than ever, Bloomberg reports the company's COO is now one of the youngest female billionaires on the planet.Read more...
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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...
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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.Read more...
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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...
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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. Read more...
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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.Read...
View ArticleNetflix has threatened to unleash hordes of protesting users in the...
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...
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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 arrogance, you wouldn't expect Steve Case, whose own hubris ran alongside the implosion of AOL-Time Warner. But here we are in 2014,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleDid you know that venture capitalists were not born infant investors with...
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,...
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Uber's Dirty Trick Campaign Against NYC Competition Came From the Top
Uber is a company that doesn't care about being hated. It flips off regulators, thinks taxi cabs are obsolete, and when it comes to other smartphone car services, plays very dirty. And the sabotage is...
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There Will Be a Lean In Movie
Sheryl Sandberg's international best-seller, an odyssey of corporate-approved quasi-feminism, will get a very strange big-screen adaptation, Deadline reports.Read more...
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