Diego Segura

"There is a tremendous squeeze these days," said Arnold Kaufman, editor of Standard & Poor's Outlook newsletter, which tracks dividend trends. "Profits are no longer high enough to pay for dividends at many companies."

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The tape recorder (which Warhol called “my wife”) was always on, fashioning one-act plays out of casual conversations—the journalistic answer to found art.

In 1925, Congress passed a law creating the Federal Helium Reserve (FHR), a storage facility that once held over a billion cubic meters of it. Initially created to ensure supplies for airships, the reserve took on heightened importance after World War II, when helium’s utility in rocketry became apparent. For decades, the federal government’s... See more

Velez’s clothes are thrashed, harsh, and even imply some kind of violence. She isn’t interested in “beauty” in the old-fashioned sense of the fashion industry, but in the chaotic multiplicities contained within femininity, even as women are portrayed exclusively as victims in the media.

The idea behind Gumroad was simple: Creators and others should be able to sell their products directly to their audiences with quick, simple links. No need for a storefront.

I built Gumroad the weekend I thought up the idea, and launched it early Monday morning on Hacker News. The reaction exceeded my grandest aspirations. Over 52,000 people checked... See more