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What the midterm madness means for startups

TechCrunch

Assuming Congress is slow to act (as divided branches often are), there could be less federal government spending on social safety net programs, leading to a drawn-out recovery. lost its perfect AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor in August 2011, prompting the stock market to plunge more than 5%. That compares to 15.1%

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This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned

TechCrunch

And making the raw components of the system freely available leaves the door open to bad actors who could train them on subjectively inappropriate content, like pornography and graphic violence. ” But Mostque argues that — by making the tools freely available — it allows the community to develop countermeasures.

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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

Every time I have assigned someone a task, rather than taking it on myself, the net effect – short-term, long-term, or both – is decidedly positive. So often dissonance, disappointment, or disaster is a result of poor communications. For me, this is a positive development. The Danger of Assumptions. Motivation.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

mRNA vaccines have given us a promising path to COVID immunity, developed in record time. And mRNA vaccines are also easily tweaked, raising the possibility of even quicker response to mutations, and even the creation of a framework for rapid development of many more vaccines. Climate change and the energy economy.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Most monopolies or duopolies develop over time, and have been considered dangerous to competitive markets ; now they are sought after from the start and are the holy grail for investors. How might that market have developed differently? It can also apply to large companies, governments, and even nonprofits. So what’s the rush?