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by ForrestN 13y ago
Your company should consider investing in some top women.
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As well as Rand would like this story, with its normative, visionary captain of industry, its worth remembering that this line of thinking is as bankrupt as it is naive. First of all, it would be utterly impossible for a purely private init
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I would leave that company immediately if I worked there. This isn't a TV show. You don't fire people that coldly and abruptly regardless of the circumstances, especially not in public.
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This is, in my opinion, an overly straightforward conception of influence. I'm not saying Bezos would want to buy the Washington Post in order to effect positive coverage of Amazon. Calling people and starting a PAC with a transparent
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Just because he's smart doesn't mean he's benevolent, right? I would never argue that he's stupid but I'd be curious to know if anyone has any insight into the extent to which he's likely to be making this purc
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Does anyone have any real insight into the strategy behind all of these acquisitions? Apart from blasé speculation about acqui-hiring (for what products?) and supposition that Yahoo executives are merely stupid, I'd be interested to un
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I would say "found as" is a little misleading when the size is so small. Maybe "initial evidence suggests" or something would be more accurate.
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"Ambition" is probably a less useful frame, in the article and in the comments, than "expectations." I've only been to Denmark a few times but I think the feeling I got is that they are happier because they have man
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Currently filled with incredibly depressing, offensive nonsense...
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This cannot be overstated. As a practical matter, and in any kind of near term, political solutions are drastically more likely to bear fruit. But more radical, long term solutions are still important! An exciting prospect.
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Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer. I run a small, internet-based non-profit (in a totally unrelated sphere, contemporary art) as my job, so these sorts of questions are directly applicable to what I do. I certainl
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That's interesting! Is this indeed what the thinking is?
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Congratulations on this great news, I think what you're doing is really valuable. Can you elaborate a little bit on what you mean by this: "Also, most startups don't open source their core business code. Some do, and I think
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This isn't a particularly good moment to weild this cliche. The core value proposition here is that it re-presents your data more beautifully than google analytics itself. Unlike the examples from which your cliche arose, this isn&#x27
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Yeah. If I were Snowden I wouldn't trust this evil government in the least. Hopefully he's still looking for somewhere else to go.
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The decline effect and the scientific method (2010)(newyorker.com)
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Agreed. Even the use of language, "forgiving," is how teachers talk about media, not children. Unfortunately, if you look closely, the paintings are actually quite awkward (the portrait of his grandfather especially) and are worse
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Easily: customers who have lots of money, who have a predisposition to prefer "traditional" artwork, and who believe the plausible idea that a child who is being recognized (according to the dealer) as a "prodigy" is lik
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Just a bit of context from a person who works in contemporary art: the question of "exploitation" is complicated by the fact that a career like this is probably based in some part on exploiting people who don't understand the
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That free-market capitalism sometimes produces unjust results, I assume?
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At the time it was widely reported that the story he was working on was related to a socialite from Florida named Jill Kelley, but it looks like that isn't true: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/26/m
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I definitely already feel some sense of pause. I remember reading this article when it came out; does anyone know if there have been any further developments in the case?
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Small typo in the phone picture. The text says "its fantastic" when it should say "it's fantastic". Not a big deal obviously, good luck with everything.
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Two things I am wondering: First, what does it mean that these poses, these concepts ("power" as the desirable mode of relating to your coworkers for example) and even the key hormone we are meant to incite are so gendered? The poses are mo
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by ForrestN 14y ago
This is a weak argument full of murky assumptions. Apple was an "edgy brand" until Jobs died, and now that they sent an email blast about the fact that an independent agency with a fair amount of credibility thinks they make the best phone,
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This whole situation makes me deeply uncomfortable. First, because it demonstrates the extent to which a company can be brought to its knees by a group of hostile people organized online. Second because hundreds and hundreds of men here and
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Both in your reply and in the original article, I wish there had been more attention paid to the value of talk therapy in some cases. While it may be true that for some depression originates as a chemical imbalance in the brain, I think for
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I want to second this. It's already quite nice but I'd recommend being as extreme as possible with optimizing for focus. I don't need all the corner information, so let me have the option of turning it off or having it fade out. Also, I don
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Your old impression of google was a result of branding. Google has been heavily reliant on branding from the very beginning. Being nerdy, "don't be evil," even being anti-marketing are all very conscious branding strategies, emphasized over
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People are attached to their phones because they are lonely. Instagram, facebook, etc. are so successful because they pluck our "togetherness" chords without any of the complications of actual intimacy. Maybe she couldn't talk about being l

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