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Don’t Yell at my Daughter

Don’t Yell at my Daughter

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How Do Crypto Twitter Scammers Work? Seriously Asking

How Do Crypto Twitter Scammers Work? Seriously Asking

Scammers are everywhere on Twitter in cryptocurrency related profiles and tweets. There are many kinds of scams but the main one is ETH…
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How Facebook Enforces its Community Standards

How Facebook Enforces its Community Standards

People come to Facebook to stay connected with their friends, family and share things that are important to them like photos, videos, news…
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Need Some Chaos in User Profile Algorithms

Need Some Chaos in User Profile Algorithms

Because of how current user profile modeling work we are getting more and more siloed to our biases. It affects what we watch, what we…
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Amazon X-Ray on Steroids, “Background” Advertising & Buying Option

Amazon X-Ray on Steroids, “Background” Advertising & Buying Option

Near the beginning of the movie Spectre, there is a scene where Bond is fighting and then choking someone on a helicopter, super intense…
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Stop Crypto On Crypto Crime

Stop Crypto On Crypto Crime

Ok it’s not really a crime, unless you consider hating a crime. More appropriate title would be “Stop Crypto On Crypto Hate”, but “crime”…
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“Alexa, I’m Sorry” Case Against Wake Words

“Alexa, I’m Sorry” Case Against Wake Words

Currently smart assistants from Amazon, Google and Apple require a wake word, a trigger, followed by a command/request/question before…
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Listen to Our Music (But Please Not Too Much) — Music Streaming Services

Listen to Our Music (But Please Not Too Much) — Music Streaming Ser...

Services like Spotify and Apple Music pay record labels and distributors on a per stream basis. This is a simple breakdown of how much they…
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Netflix’s “Skip Intro” Feature — How the Hell do They do That?

Netflix’s “Skip Intro” Feature — How the Hell do They do That?

If you are a Netflix fan (as I am sure most are) you may have noticed in the past 6 months or so that you can skip intros of most shows…
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Satoshi Mined 1M Bitcoins in 140 Days!

Satoshi Mined 1M Bitcoins in 140 Days!

I wanted to do a quick estimation on how long it must have taken Satoshi to mine his/her/their ~1M bitcoins.
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Social Games — Few Things to Know

Social Games — Few Things to Know

In the past six months or so I’ve picked up a few things on social games. These are games a company like Zynga is well known for. Which is…
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The Cute Discount

The Cute Discount

Went shopping for some clothes recently. First store had some great deals. On top of it being a tax free weekend in Houston I got to use my…
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Foursquare Missing Big Opportunities

Foursquare Missing Big Opportunities

I go to a new interesting place or a previous place I like, I find myself using foursquare. It has become a habit. I mostly do it to get…
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An Experience with Pay with Square

An Experience with Pay with Square

I went to San Francisco recently for some interviews. One of the companies I ended up speaking with was Square. I’m a big fan of the…
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Game of Thrones and Time

Game of Thrones and Time

The HBO show Game of Thrones is incredible. It ended its 2nd season recently and now the waiting begins. I can’t wait a year to know what…
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Hollywood Magic

Hollywood Magic

Conventional wisdom in business is, recover your investments, pay your expenses and if you earn more you earn a profit. Not necessarily in…
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Latitude + Longitude + Elevation

Latitude + Longitude + Elevation

Future location data will include all three data points.
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Foursquare Concept

Foursquare Concept

I’m a big fan of foursquare. Like most people I use it to find places and save money — and it can be very useful. Now there are few things…
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Power of Money

Power of Money

Couple of years ago I went to see my cousin’s new place. She just bought a new house and a few of us were in the kitchen talking and I was…
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SayHey — My Startup Attempt

SayHey — My Startup Attempt

Ready? I tried to launch a startup recently called SayHey. The goal was to simplify college. It was a mobile startup designed to make it…
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