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Paypal cryptocurrency fees
Paypal's fees for both buying and selling crypto.
The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger
Excellent simple breakdown of why pretty much all crypto is complete nonsense.
Monetizing Open-source is problematic
Some background on the faker.js (and colours.js) situation.
Wikipedia Endowment: The Site Is Rich. Why Is It Fundraising?
Article that talks about why Wikimedia keeps raising funds when it seems to be pretty well off.
Game Development Budgets and Customer Value
A brief but useful explanation of how game development budgets relate to perceived and actual consumer value. Helps answer the question "is a higher-price but higher-budget game better value than a lower-price but lower-budget game?"
Oh the Humanity
Opening: An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me, "I wish I could give a workshop for Apple alumni jumping into startups, to help them un-learn The Apple Way." As someone who strives to build products with the craft and quality of Apple, it pains me to admit that The Apple Way can destroy a lot of startups. Which brings us to Humane.
the madness of king altman: how ai became the god of silicon valley
"At this point, it doesn’t matter if tech executives and VCs believe their own hype and wild claims about what’s next for AI — though I firmly believe that they genuinely buy into the things they’re preaching and chugging their own kool aid — because they’ve made the grand pronouncements, they started their cults, and they promised a future of AGI-powered wonder. They sold equity to investors who give them billions every year, and those investors now expect steady double-digit percentage returns."
A fun (and hopefully concerning) take on the AIification of everything.