colmvp

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No, e-book sales are not falling, despite what publishers say(fortune.com)
2 points by colmvp 11y ago|0 comments
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by colmvp 11y ago
One of the journalists I follow in Canada has a Patreon and doesn't inundate his work with ads or paywall. I voluntarily pay him more money per month than any news site because he actually produces work that matters to me (politics, jo
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by colmvp 11y ago
Notice that it's Black and Hispanic, and not Asian? At least Asian women might have dedicated office hours ("We will start with Black and Hispanic founders and if successful we hope to launch future Open Office Hours for Women, Ve
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by colmvp 11y ago
Surprised no one here mentioned A9 and the updated camera. As a person upgrading from an iPhone 5, I'm pretty excited.
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by colmvp 11y ago
Funnily enough, my experience with Lyft has dropped significantly over the last year. In the last few months alone, I had an where the Lyft driver who was supposed to pick me up at SFO didn't know where I was despite following the inst
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by colmvp 11y ago
Exactly. Stories posted on HN/Reddit are clearly influenced by timing and title.
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by colmvp 11y ago
God this spoke to me. I'm in the midst of cleaning out our basement filled with old cassettes, VHS' and CDs. My siblings who moved out years ago, asked me to donate them or throw them away. So now I've got to spend hours sift
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by colmvp 11y ago
Zenefits was easily one of the worst experiences I've ever had for dealing with switching/canceling health insurance.
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by colmvp 11y ago
Thank you for actually pointing that out. As an Asian man, it annoys me that we also get excluded from being included as part of diversity. Asian men in tech? Who gives a shit, we need more x y and z! Not enough Asian men in Hollywood? Who
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by colmvp 12y ago
There were definitely some erroneous or unsubstantiated claims she made in the court, some of which was testified against by people who she quoted.
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by colmvp 12y ago
I know this is a vapid comment but the video on their website showcasing the Nebula Cloud Controller is slick.
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by colmvp 12y ago
> Ms. Pao, it emerged in testimony, compiled a “resentment” chart of colleagues who, she believed, wronged her. Wow. How petty. There's so many things that came from this case that make me question how much of the testimony from her
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by colmvp 12y ago
Are you suggesting that we Asians aren't minorities? That we don't get or understand what is it to be discriminated against?
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by colmvp 12y ago
This is especially more funny when you consider corporate influence in politics, along with the influence of money. Corporations and the rich have a disproportionate influence yet it would be audacious to ever propose workers having a vote
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by colmvp 12y ago
I submitted this story a few days ago which didn't get any upvotes but elaborates on your point http://recode.net/2015/03/20/ellen-pao-and-the-case-of-the-m... > Ellen Pao said she filed her gender di
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by colmvp 12y ago
The rebuttal wouldn't have had been posted if the original comment not been a histrionic observation.
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Ellen Pao and the Case of the Mysterious Missing Admins(recode.net)
1 points by colmvp 12y ago|0 comments
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by colmvp 12y ago
> To most people, "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" sounds reasonable. I know it's impossible, but I really recommend people who have that opinion to watch the TED talk by journalist Glenn Green
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by colmvp 12y ago
I just want to say to anyone who works at Balanced that your work was exceptional and as a user, it was a huge blow to hear this news.
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by colmvp 12y ago
Unfortunately the government continues to the cut funding for the CBC. And the CBC doesn't help its public perception (who have the power to advocate for increased funding) when they give leeway to their stars like Jian Ghomeshi and Am
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by colmvp 12y ago
I feel like that's a very simplistic way of evaluating progressiveness. A board of a well known tech company is composed of 3 women, and 6 men. By your metric, that's progressiveness. After all, a third are women. Greater than 0.
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by colmvp 12y ago
Agreed. It's strange. It doesn't take into account merit of the selections nor the additional way of measuring progressiveness in racial diversity which, as I outline in another post, it has at least some. It's just blindly a
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by colmvp 12y ago
They have an Asian partner in Alfred Lin and Middle Eastern partner in Omar Hamoui. Both are racial minorities. That has to count for something in the realm of diversity as racial and ethnic minorities face discrimination and under-represen
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by colmvp 12y ago
Where I live in Canada, there are professors who aren't even close to the same caliber of proficiency or importance as Dr. Tao and earn more. Granted, they represent a small percentage of professors, but the point is that top end profe
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by colmvp 12y ago
I'm sure the people who would frequently use VR for their personal pleasure are doing so because they prefer VR instead of the practical reality that it has been really hard to find someone IRL. I feel like Louis CK does a great job of
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by colmvp 12y ago
Interesting that you mention gender diversity but there's no mention about racial diversity.
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by colmvp 12y ago
Haim Schoppik and Chris Maguire: Left Etsy at the same time ( https://blog.etsy.com/en/2008/a-fond-farewell/ ) to create Postling ( http://mashable.com/2009/08/11/postling/ )
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by colmvp 12y ago
As mentioned in this link, 10 months ago, they had let go of three of their mods, including LobsterMitten (who is coming back onboard): http://metatalk.metafilter.com/23245/State-of-MetaFilter
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by colmvp 12y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I moved to Kindle a year ago and haven't looked back. For technical and art books, yes I'll still buy the paper version. But for non-fiction, fiction, saved long-form articles, and magazine
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by colmvp 12y ago
Pharmacists are paid extremely well and have a higher representation of women (56.3) than men.

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