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Surviving Amazon: Work, life, and bias inside one of the world’s most ambitious businesses

GeekWire

A couple of years ago, I was reading an article and they denied ever having done stack ranking, and I was just stunned because I participated in that exercise three or four times in my career there. But at some point, someone made a Wikipedia page called “frupidity,” for the merger of “frugal” and “stupid.”

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Apple’s $64 billion-a-year App Store isn’t catching the most egregious scams

The Verge

Call Recorder iCall is clearly not an exercise app, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped these “reviewers” from trying. Below you see "Live Wallpaper Z", allowed to keep stealing $40k/month from unsuspecting people. I think its great to use your own body weight to get that burning workout. I'm speechless. How do I know?

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Doing shots with true believers at Ethereum’s biggest party

The Verge

Then he told a story about when he and Elon were working on Zip2, their first company, which was an internet replacement for the Yellow Pages. Buterin doesn’t exercise direct control over much, but given his celebrity, his endorsement is very important for everyone who works in Ethereum. “I look young, of course, but I’m old.”

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Can Polestar design a new kind of car company?

The Verge

It’s not just a marketing exercise where you do a perfect plan from A to Z. Of course, bit by bit the creative part, being in the design studio disappeared, and now I’m only, I don’t know, four hours per week over there and being together with Max [Missoni] and Robin [Page] in the design studio. It is a living thing.

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Microsoft Surface Duo review: double troubles

The Verge

The Kindle app is a nice example of turning the gap into an advantage: you get a page on each side and the ability to hold the Duo like it’s a little book. The result of that technical debt is that Android is woefully unprepared for devices like the Surface Duo and Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2. It’s Microsoft’s.

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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti and Gawker’s Nick Denton on why the 2010s digital media boom went bust

Vox

And yes, this is, in part, a nostalgia exercise, aimed at a not-super-tiny group of people who felt passionately, one way or another, about the likes of BuzzFeed and Gawker a decade ago (I was one of those people because I was both working at and covering digital media startups myself). What was the one big thing you missed back then?

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Nine things we learned from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg facing his employees

The Verge

It attacks a private company, Twitter, for exercising its First Amendment right to comment on the president’s statements.”. Misinformation about MSNBC running footage of World War Z instead of real protest images went viral on Twitter last weekend. The Verge ). And finally. This is NOT what America is about. Talk to us.

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