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  Reading "Feedly became unbearably slow" for nth time. Guessing that is at least partially caused by the freemium model? From what I can tell they advertise 15M users but more like 100K paying. I'm good with subscription-only for Yupdates but I bet it's going to affect traction

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  I knew it had millions of users, but didn't realize Google Reader had hit over 30 million. A shame that is still a "rounding error" at Google. theverge.com/23778253/googl…

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  "Moving to Hpc7g offers up to 70% better performance and almost 3x better price-performance compared to the previous generation AWS Graviton instances for compute-intensive workloads. They also consume up to 60% less energy for the same work"

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  Separating services out is not guaranteed to be the wrong design or anything, but identifying externalities and where complexity is shifting to will lead to better decisions. x.com/seancribbs/sta…

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  "GPT-3 is a double-edge sword: In comparison with humans, it can produce accurate information that is easier to understand, but it can also produce more compelling disinformation"