Jay-Z: From Selling Crack to Hip-Hop Billionaire by zaplin

Breaking Down The Strategy In 1969, a young kid was born to a single mother on the streets of Brooklyn, New York. By 13, that young kid was already selling crack on the streets. By 14, he’d dropped out of school for good. By 16, he’d been arrested for the first time. But by 50

ByHackTechNovember 14, 20230Comments

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DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2B by Plasmoid

F-450 coal rollingCourtesy: Salvatore Arnone | Wikipedia CCEbay could be on the hook for as much as $2 billion in fines for allegedly allowing hundreds of thousands of “rolling coal” pollution devices and other products that violate environmental laws to be sold on its platform.Rolling coal is the practice of installing a tampering device to

ByHackTechOctober 13, 20230Comments

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Selling Subscriptions by hhs

Working Paper 31547 DOI 10.3386/w31547 Issue Date August 2023 Retailers are increasingly selling goods and services via subscriptions instead of spot markets. In this paper, we study one benefit to the retailer of selling subscriptions: the possibility that – presumably because of inattentio

ByHackTechAugust 25, 20230Comments

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Is Austin selling itself out to the highest bidder? by barbe

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ByHackTechAugust 5, 20231Comment

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Ask HN: Is anybody selling API access to HuggingFace models? by JuanPosadas

I've used the OpenAI and GCP chat-bison APIs with great success, but I'd like to put my money into more ethical companies with free-as-in-freedom-er models.I don't want to fickle around with buying or renting GPUs or installing random LLM scripts that don't work 90% of the time.I also don't want to pay $XX/month subscriptions, I

ByHackTechJuly 8, 20230Comments

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What Was Selling Out? by MattJ100

Back in the latter part of the 20th century, a lot of subcultures held onto a concept called “selling out”, a nebulously-defined idea based on a negative view of compromising one’s values or creative expression in the pursuit of money or, sometimes, power. And the thing is, like a lot of taboos or loosely-defined cultural

ByHackTechApril 19, 20230Comments

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Selling Dead Startups by corentin88

You might think that the title doesn’t make sense. Why would someone buy a dead startup? Think about it, over 90% of the startups fail. If we take into account the projects that never live enough to get into the statistics that’s a damn big number. Or as I like to see it, unused real…

ByHackTechMarch 30, 20220Comments

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