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Welcome To The Outrage Machine, 'Unquestionable Greed' — The Startup CEO Who Stole $765k From His Friends, Broken Men And Their Broken System, Here's How Much Water California Needs To Save This Year, Why We Need The Veto, When A Brand's April Fools' Day Prank Is Just A Lie The Daily Digg Thursday, April 2, 2015 GOOD LUCK GETTING OUT Welcome To The Outrage Machine digg.com On this week's Reply All — how quickly, easily, and thoroughly the Internet can ruin someone.​ TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN 'Unquestionable Greed' — The Startup CEO Who Stole $765k From His Friends arstechnica.com Jon Mills had moved to California five years ago with a dream to hit it big in Silicon Valley. The company he founded, Motionloft, uses small sensors to perform analytics on in-store foot traffic. Everything worked. The company continues to succeed, and celebrity venture capitalist Mark Cuban remains its sole investor. But that success wasn't enough. PERSONNEL FOUL Broken Men And Their Broken System medium.com The NFL is doing a great disservice to its ex-players. What's worse, the situation is an avoidable one. NO MORE BATHS, CALIFORNIA Here's How Much Water California Needs To Save This Year wired.com To put it one way, roughly the same volume as 1,766 Empire State Buildings. VETO POWER POWER Why We Need The Veto politico.com How else will we know what our politicians really think? CHUTE THE SHIT When A Brand's April Fools' Day Prank Is Just A Lie dailydot.com This year marketing company Boogie tried their hand at a "prank" that wasn't very funny. The agency created a landing page and a brand design for an application called Chute that supposedly protects your phone from shattering when dropped on the ground. Get more stories on Digg.com → PARTY CRASHERS A pigeon dips its head in a water fountain as they take a bath in suburban Quezon city, east of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Aaron Favila Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014