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by gyardley 13y ago
This is so, so true. Having a strong BATNA is 90% of negotiating. It's not true at all. No other offer? Unemployed for a year? It doesn't matter. When you get their offer, flinch, flare your nostrils, make an 'oof' noise on the phone - wh
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by gyardley 13y ago
That sounds like hubris.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Ten thousand hours of practice will make you a hell of a lot better at something, no matter what your natural gifts are. I suspect that in most cases, ten thousand hours of practice will make you far better than the group of naturally talen
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DARPA is Developing a Video Game-Like Program to Make Cyberwarfare Easy(polygon.com)
2 points by gyardley 13y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 13y ago
Building products for markets you don't understand isn't such a great idea. Yes, I'm sure there's some nice opportunities out there among the underclass, but most developers in Silicon Valley simply don't have the ability to find them, beca
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by gyardley 13y ago
Personally? Depends on the offense, but in general, hell no. Many non-violent offenses are worse than the violent ones - I could care less about a weapons possession charge, but theft or fraud is an absolute non-starter.
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by gyardley 13y ago
He's possibly the worst politician Toronto's ever had as mayor - I'll give you that. Constantly reeling from one self-induced disaster to another. But why do you think Torontonians elected him, a man who seems to have very little in common
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by gyardley 13y ago
Unless my memory's completely shot, the Globe and Mail didn't endorse Ford. Did you read the endorsement article you linked to? It ends with "The electors of Toronto should guardedly opt for George Smitherman."
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by gyardley 13y ago
No, but note that this information's not coming from Tumblr - it's coming from an analyst who claims it's based on some financing documents he obtained. Whether you trust it or not is up to you.
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by gyardley 13y ago
If I had to guess, I'd guess the writer's appreciation of alliteration. 'Learning from Sunnyvale' doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely.
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by gyardley 13y ago
There's a bunch of free-standing houses scattered through Inwood and Marble Hill. Not that they're a large portion of Manhattan's housing stock, and they're certainly not central, but they're there. That listing's claiming to be the only fr
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by gyardley 13y ago
Interesting design choices - the photos are highlighted front and center but all the social aspects of Flickr have been shoved downward into have-to-scroll territory. Contrast this to Facebook and Instagram, which both use a right sidebar l
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by gyardley 13y ago
This is why I wrote "we do need government, but we only need it for things the rest of society isn't going to do independently." I think we largely agree on the role of government and we only end up disagreeing on whether any one particular
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by gyardley 13y ago
I think you could argue that both initiatives will lead to job creation. But since this link wasn't at all mentioned in any of the advertisements I saw, I agree - it felt odd. That's why I can only make sense of them as a quid pro quo. Howe
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by gyardley 13y ago
I'm not American. I will say that civil society is far, far more varied than the either/or choice of the individual acting alone or the entire nation acting together through the government. Local communities, associations, congregations,
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by gyardley 13y ago
Never hire a product manager off of "spidey-sense product instincts and creativity", because you won't be able to tell a candidate who's got some skill from a candidate who's been having some luck. A product manager shouldn't just be able t
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by gyardley 13y ago
Large monopolistic organizations are almost always more inefficient due to increased coordination costs and lack of accountability and competition. For any given thing, 'the greatest good for the greatest number' is much more likely to happ
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by gyardley 13y ago
The 'knives of class warfare' aren't coming out because FWD.us supports a certain variety of immigration reform or because technology disappears jobs. The knives are coming out because as part of its lobbying, FWD.us supported some more tra
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by gyardley 13y ago
If I had to guess, it'd be because someone thought you were just commenting to promote your employer.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Not really, but during the '00s Yahoo had a management culture where decisions were made by (painful, painful) consensus. Generally this led to stagnation in the acquired services, and when you're stagnant, you get lapped. Meyer seems deter
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by gyardley 13y ago
San Francisco has placed quite a few public restrooms on city streets in the past - I believe as part of a partnership with an outdoor advertising company. For the most part, they became disgusting centers for drug use and prostitution. I d
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by gyardley 13y ago
The same office released the confidential application documents of conservative groups to ProPublica. http://www.propublica.org/article/irs-office-that-targeted-t... Perhaps you could argue that digging into these groups was being 'pruden
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by gyardley 13y ago
Hell, I'm not sure the Second Amendment was fully incorporated against the states until McDonald v. Chicago in 2010. Doesn't matter a bit to me, though - it's incorporated now.
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IRS Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups(propublica.org)
12 points by gyardley 13y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 13y ago
Because we're not talking about something like your ability to smoke weed here - the right to bear arms is a constitutional one. You might as well ask 'why do people love states rights except when it comes to free speech?' Same thing in my
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by gyardley 13y ago
'We all' don't agree in the slightest, about this or the government's cynical attempt to blame the security failure in Benghazi on some random scapegoat's YouTube video. Speak for yourself and not others.
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by gyardley 13y ago
Your comment couldn't be more wrong. Linking every Tea Party group to the Sovereign Citizens movement is just a smear. 'Not being opposed to taxation' isn't one of the eligibility criteria for a non-profit. 501(c)(4) (aka social welfare) or
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by gyardley 13y ago
This is an amusing story, but it's not accurate. America just lacks the British size distinction between rocks and stones, and someone (likely a Brit) made up this explanation as a way to poke fun at Americans. After all, when it's time for
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by gyardley 13y ago
Psychologically, I couldn't hold an ETF and forget about it. I'd be ecstatic with its performance right now, but say I was holding an S&P 500 index fund between 2007 and 2009, and it lost half it's value along with the S&P... I woul
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by gyardley 13y ago
What return? The interest rates available these days are appalling. Cripes, tell me you don't keep money in a savings account or CDs. Keep it with your investment manager. The large banks cater to the mass affluent - which includes any so

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