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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

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  Open source work is largely voluntary, so its maintainers need periodic breaks too.

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  it helps sending a signal and a reminder that Open Source is to a large extent done voluntarily and even maintainers need a break at times.

  What the bliss taught usdaniel.haxx.se

AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  In coding agents, untrusted repositories should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent into risky actions via approved tools.

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  untrusted repos should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent toward reading files, running commands, or sending data through approved tools.

  Using Local Coding Agentsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com

Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  Whatever a state thinks it will gain by sending soldiers is inferior to what it would have got from sending diplomats and lawyers.

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  And their idea is we must hash out our different differences with diplomats and lawyers cuz when you send the soldiers in, it is uh whatever gains you think you're going going to get are going to be inferior to what you would have done with the diplomats.

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Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.

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  A product monetised through what users pay for their own engagement beats one monetised by advertising, because ads work by sending the user away.

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  We made this something useful for adults and we had this user pay model that could monetize your engagement instead of trying to show you an ad and getting you to leave the game to go somewhere else. It actually the more engaged you were, the more likely you were to, you know, spend money.

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Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  The bargain that funded the open web was that a crawler could take your pages because it would send you readers; an AI crawler that sends nobody has broken it.

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  The deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million times for every one user they send to your site, all they're giving you is higher costs.

  Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com

Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  Getting a data centre permitted in the empty middle of America is far easier than putting one in orbit.

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  And so I think people are figuring out how to build these things and permitting like I I just like ultimately like permitting and red tape in middle of nowhere Texas or middle of nowhere Wyoming or middle of nowhere like New Mexico is probably a hell of a lot easier than sending stuff into space

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Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.

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  The archaeological record of early writing is misleading, because people across the Middle East were sending each other messages long before the Sumerians.

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  And my hunch is that the archaeological evidence that we have on this score is ultimately misleading, because I think this: that probably for a very, very long time before the Sumerians, people in the world, the world of what we call the Middle East, were in contact.

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Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.

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  Wise

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  I use Wise for sending & receiving money internationally. They have really low rates compared to the rest of the market.

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  I use FreeAgent for sending invoices and handling bookkeeping. I've been using it for over five years at this point and I don't know what I'd do without it.

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Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

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  Letting banks ruin the economics of businesses they dislike by demand letter will inevitably be abused.

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  We should not allow banks to get into the habit of sending demand letters to ruin the economics of businesses they simply do not like.

  Open Banking and payments competitionbitsaboutmoney.com

China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  When assessing an economy's trajectory, current performance signals are more useful than forecasts of potential GDP growth.

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  But for a variety of reasons I think it makes more sense to stay agnostic about forecasts of potential GDP growth, and focus more on the signals the current performance of the economy is sending.

  Who believes in China’s output gap?andrewbatson.com