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mellotron··on DoorDash (YC S13) Delivers Food Quickly In South Bay, Hopes To Expand Beyond Food
Pfsh.
mellotron··on Music to Let you Concentrate
Boards of Canada pandora, gradually tuned for minor key ambient electronica.

That's my work soundtrack of choice.

mellotron··on Stellar Wind (code name)
Been to Arizona lately?
mellotron··on Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
The escorts definitely didn't miss the opportunity.
mellotron··on Google Buys a Quantum Computer
Just wait until Google self driving tech is installed into a majority of new cars in 20 years. Or less.
mellotron··on 24 year old Ogilvy China employee dies from 'overwork'
Any statistics on US deaths like this? I couldn't seem to find anything particularly useful.

I just mean to say that China is an enormous country, and statistically these things are bound to happen. Does anyone else perceive this type of media coverage as part of a greater strategy of propagandizing or is the oversturation of news outlets just hungry for enything sensationalist to grab eyeballs? Both?

mellotron··on Send money with Gmail
Didn't Google already buy up a ton of dark fiber backbone? GFiber may be closer to disrupting the national ISP market than we think
mellotron··on Microsoft's anti-Google campaign gets a boost, from Google
So the implication of the article is that Microsoft deliberately made a YT app that they knew Google would be forced to C&D just so they could use that as a cog in a PR campaign? Seems penny wise pound foolish if true.
mellotron··on Google Buys a Quantum Computer
Singularity draws ever closer...