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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Governmental crackdowns Governments regularly use surveillance to track illicit behavior and curb or curtail activities. You think Turkey is going to be eager to allow the movement of capital it can’t track?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries.

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