#silly valley

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Uber, Lyft main reason for increased traffic congestion in SF, study finds | Hoodline

The San Francisco County Transportation Authority reports that ride-hailing services accounted for about 50 percent of the increased congestion between 2010 and 2016.

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Bless Google for finding a way to put IoT trash into low-income housing and call it charitable environmentalism. No doubt with some public subsidy. Canonize these saints, what would we do without them.

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The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org

Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warni

Perfectly predictable, and yet all the more sad as a result.

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This isn't a video, this is just a par-for-the-course ad on Tumblr.

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Two former eBay executives sentenced to prison for involvement in cyberstalking scheme

The former eBay executives hatched a campaign to harass the editor and publisher of the website eCommercebytes

Hey, those ebay execs got jailtime! Maybe next time don't mail spiders to critics?

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Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours

Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post called Dropbox: the First Dead Decacorn. At the time, it was the most widely shared take I’d ever written.

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Tech’s Fractal Irresponsibility Problem

Each small bad story reflects in miniature the shape of the industry’s big problems.

“Tech has a fractal irresponsibility problem: Each small worry reflects in miniature the shape of the industry’s big problems. The scale changes, but the substance doesn’t.“