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Anywhere Duke students are, from fraternity parties to Perkins Library to Krzyzewskiville, you will probably find someone listening to a Big Bootie Mix.

Stricter and more complex banking rules are further isolating nations like the Marshall Islands, whose only domestic bank is losing its international partner.

#finance #international

The Amazon founder and Washington Post owner has quietly become a freewheeling DC socialite—and soon he'll be spending more time here. The story of how the world's richest man is becoming a Washingtonian.

#Washington DC #Jeff Bezos

#gender #satire

#WeAreAmerica #John Cena #patriotism #Independence Day #July 4th

#google #2015

To be beautiful is to transcend, to move through the world frictionlessly, as consistently pleasant as the weather: temperate, no clouds, photo ready. I no longer believe this is true. I don’t live here anymore, but when I visit, I see many good-looking people getting in and out of cars in workout pants, going to and from spinning or the farmers’ market, or driving to the outdoor staircases they will run up and down ten times before getting back in the car to drive home, where they will draw the blinds on the sun they moved here to see. I wonder if their lives feel easy or strained, if they’re blissed out on endorphins and vegetable juice or if they hate themselves, only working this hard to remind themselves they have a body when the air offers no resistance. It is possible to become so healthy that you become sick. This way of life is kinder to the men than to the women, who are still promised more for physical perfection—a career, a love, a future. But the men do it too, pouring all of the energy and passion of a human life into their bodies, including the ones who have already won everything there was to win. It’s a paradoxical lifestyle, self-improvement as an ethos. It demands one remain just shy of perfect, leaving some room to improve.

#Los Angeles

The reality is, few professions seem so openly hostile to their current members as software engineering. There is always this lingering caution when interviewing a new candidate that somehow this individual has gotten through every interview process and team review without anyone realizing the incompetence before them. Founders swap stories of “that one guy” who somehow managed to work on infrastructure at Facebook, but was a complete idiot.

#engineering #hiring #Silicon Valley

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 23:17:17 -0500 Subject: Island From: Max Temkin To: Dan Lyne

Dan, Can you help us get a private island? We'd like to own it as soon as possible. We need it by November at the latest. Let me know how to proceed. Thanks, - Max

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 23:20:05 Subject: Re: Island From: Max Temkin To: Dan Lyne

Just to clarify: this isn't a joke, we really want to buy an island. - Max

Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 04:27:38 +0000 Subject: Re: Island From: Dan Lyne To: Max Temkin

Sure. Why the hell not. - Dan

#Cards Against Humanity #private islands #real estate

Sharing the stage with Schmidt were the sorts of tech-industry insiders, legal scholars, human rights advocates, and media leaders that one might expect Google to call on, among them Wikipedia’s Wales; Le Monde’s editorial director, Sylvie Kauffman; and Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond. But there was one advisor who stood out: an Oxford professor, trained in metaphysics, epistemology, and logic, named Luciano Floridi. To build its court of philosopher kings, Google needed a philosopher.

#Google #philosophy #Oxford #Luciano Floridi #technology #identity

#hyperlapse #Rob Whitworth #Barcelona

#Millennials #digital life #devices

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