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Always remember that a normal VC exit time is only 7-10 years. Then it's either IPO, or selling the company and its users. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-codin...

 

The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant: http://www.businessinsider.com/american-worker-less-vacation-medieval-peasant-2016-11?IR=T

 

In plain English: it means we can do away with blockchains for many use cases previously thought impossible to solve in a fully permissionless and decentralized way without them.

 

Maidsafe researchers claim to have solved asynchronous, decentralized, Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus. Significant implications if the math checks out: https://blog.maidsafe.net/2018/06/01/parsec-a-paradigm-shift-for-asynchronous-and-permissionless-con...

 

Polls on fedi: what's the status?

 
 
 

Shitcoin cringe of the day: in order to even launch the EOS blockchain, the holders of at least 15% of tokens have to vote who will be the oligarchy nodes, which will control the network. Currently, they're expected to do this via a CLI program. 2 days left for educating the masses of "investors" in the largest ICO to date about it: https://www.coindesk.com/eos-coming-anyone-can-figure-vote/

 

Free Software win of the day: signing PDFs using a scanned signature, extracted in GIMP, and placed in PDF using Xournal. Once you have the signature file ready, you can sign anything within seconds.

 

Is it really the case that on macOS there's simply no other option to increase font sizes than lowering the resolution of the display?!

 

GDPR fail of the day: Head to the EU's very own https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-protection-eu_en and try to open "Overview of national data protection authorities". Result: "You are not authorized to access this document" (delivered in style, by a proprietary web framework as an HTTP 200, of course). πŸ–

 
 
 
 
 
 

China's social credit system has blocked people from taking 11 million flights and 4 million train trips: http://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-blocked-people-taking-flights-train-trips-...

 

So when some of you said "it's great that GDPR forces people to ask me about another opt-in for storing data or sending newsletters", under GDPR itself, emailing that question is illegal *especially* in the case that you haven't given consent yet. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

 
 

And here's where it gets interesting. Look at the other recent articles from the same author, and tell me if you notice a pattern: https://www.wired.co.uk/profile/amit-katwala

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