Byrne Hobart
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Types fairly fast. Tweets are map, not territory. Co-author: Boom (Stripe Press): https://t.co/u8do6HYFRF
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Were Forward-Deployed Engineers Designed as the Ideal CEO Training? Plus! Funds; AI; Business and Politics; The Trade Map; The DollarThis post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign inJoin 50,000+ industry professionals and curious generalists by subscribing to The Diff.
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Plus! Crypto; Omnimedia; Tariffs and Competitive Advantage; The Everything App; Talent AcquisitionsThis post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign inJoin 50,000+ industry professionals and curious generalists by subscribing to The Diff.
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In this issue:What Happened to Working Your Way Up from the Mailroom?—The stories of people working their way up from a menial, unskilled job to the top of a big company are mostly old, and in a way that's a good sign about efficient markets in talent. But there are downsides to a world with better, earlier sorting—so it's good news that sorting mechanisms are never perfect.
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2 weeks ago |
thediff.co | Byrne Hobart
LongreadsIn Bloomberg, the real story of the great SEC EDGAR hack, in which a group of traders got access to filings, including earnings announcements, before they were made public. It's partly a reminder of how much rickety infrastructure is out there—EDGAR dates back to the early 90s, and has been iteratively patched since then, but apparently still has a fair number of vulnerabilities.
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I think the main market reaction to the US bombing Iran is about 2% WW3 risk and and 98% “Trump really will do random crazy stuff like, for example, putting massive tariffs on Vietnam in order to reshore our strategically vital sneaker industry.”
Before Linux, one of the most widely-used Unix implementations—possibly the most used by total installs—was Microsoft’s Xenix.
Linus Torvalds & Bill Gates just met each other for the first time https://t.co/vEGq6C44pg
SSL, PGP, all basically a waste of time. The new cutting-edge encryption technique is just putting all of your secrets in the second paragraph.
What on earth? “College Board, which does the SAT, cut "reading passages from 500-750 words all the way down to 25-150 words, or the length of a social-media post, with one question per passage," writes Torres. The test eliminated material, including “passages in the U.S.
