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by gyardley 10y ago
C'mon - when I was a teenager I would've had sex with the crack of dawn if I knew it was interested. I doubt anyone capable of getting pregnant is truly 'off the market' for every teenaged boy in their vicinity. It'
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by gyardley 10y ago
What's wrong with using the already expressed intentions of the community, as expressed by the upvotes on each submission, as the 'final say'? You should give the money to Pinboard.
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by gyardley 10y ago
You usually can't go from a lucrative career where you have a lot of experience to an unrelated career where you have no experience without taking a big paycut. If you need to maintain your salary, it'd be much, much easier to f
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by gyardley 11y ago
Oh, you'd be surprised. Given that the plaintiff has turned down multi-million settlement offers, and given that there's two quite reputable law firms working for the plaintiff who aren't in the habit of taking no-hoper cases
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by gyardley 11y ago
No, I am wondering. Yes, it seems likely to me that talking about underwear color would prevent some students from using the list and those students would disproportionately be likely to be female, based on my own experiences in engineeri
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by gyardley 11y ago
'Creepy' is right. I wonder how many people refrained from using an otherwise-useful mailing list because of someone they didn't want thinking about the color of their underwear. I further wonder if reluctance to talk about t
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Pinterest engineer on Silicon Valley sexism(qz.com)
4 points by gyardley 11y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 11y ago
I too would enjoy seeing this. I submitted an race-and-gender-related article around a month ago that fell off the front page quickly enough to make me cock an eyebrow and wonder if the flagging system isn't giving a small percentage o
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by gyardley 11y ago
When UMeng cloned Flurry, I could be wrong but I don't believe we did anything, and I'm pretty sure that was the right call. Any lengthy legal dispute will distract you from other important things; legal disputes that are likely t
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by gyardley 11y ago
Given how psychological experiments work, what's more likely - that you have a higher IQ than everyone else involved in the program, or that one of the things they're studying is the effect of believing you have a higher IQ than e
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Techies: A Study of Silicon Valley(medium.com)
2 points by gyardley 11y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 11y ago
Microsoft makes annoying product mistakes like everybody else and obviously isn't immune to PR blunders. However, they're also pleasingly boring and know where their bread is buttered, so I sort of do trust them not to introduce
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by gyardley 11y ago
It's not enough for IVF be safe, lawful, and free. For the general, not-infertile public to actually prefer IVF over the natural way of doing things, it'd also have to be easy, convenient, and painless, and it'd have to consi
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by gyardley 11y ago
That quote in the parent is not from Weev, but from a member of the Black Justice League, an activist group active at Princeton.
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by gyardley 11y ago
The entity has nothing to do with it. Back when I worked for the comparison shopping NexTag, for example, people would certainly joke about being 'nextagged', not 'nextaged', which would've been read as something co
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by gyardley 11y ago
Good lord, enough with the pedants complaining about the title already. We are all adults and know that sometimes article headlines are not exact literal representations of their contents.
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by gyardley 11y ago
I've coincidentally been on a couple trips with mid- and low-level UN bureaucrats, and when they got talking, this is exactly what they said - the organization is hidebound, sclerotic, and all-around useless. God, the horror stories -
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by gyardley 11y ago
Are you at all concerned that the compressed timetable leading up to Demo Day contributes to founder burnout and unhealthy lifestyles? How do you know the program isn't inadvertently damaging some of its participants?
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by gyardley 11y ago
When the company's raised a ton of money, the common's behind a ton of preferences, and in a time when there's no IPO window in sight, a 34% discount to the preferred doesn't sound particularly terrible or notable to me.
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by gyardley 11y ago
This was a fine read, and somewhat brave, because posting something like this just invites a bunch of people to play the 'let me judge this person and decide whether their firing was legitimate / their reaction to it was appropria
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by gyardley 11y ago
I suspect Toronto's the most multicultural, international city on earth, and it's high on my list of places I'd live if I wasn't married to someone with zero tolerance for snow. Unfortunately, Toronto still manages to su
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Not a Black Chair: racism, sexism, and discrimination at Squarespace(medium.com)
43 points by gyardley 11y ago|30 comments
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by gyardley 11y ago
Of course it could happen - there's nothing inherent that keeps you from downshifting and enjoying your life more. Even if you're truly addicted to work, addictions can be beaten. I have to admit I find articles like this complete
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by gyardley 11y ago
I'm from Ontario and couldn't have more different opinions about the role of government in society. Perhaps a little less generalization? I'd happily agree that a small majority of voters in Ontario generally support a sligh
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by gyardley 11y ago
While I have the same concerns, and my suspicion is that basic income given today's society would be an unaffordable and incentive-killing disaster, in 2016 they're just beginning to figure out how and whether to implement a pilot
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by gyardley 11y ago
As an aside, the Sorcery games referred to here are very faithful adaptions of Steve Jackson's Sorcery! adventure gamebooks, the pinnacle of the Fighting Fantasy series and total catnip for the eight-year-old version of me. Buying and
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by gyardley 11y ago
The only thing better than business-class upgrades on your work-related travel is not having work-related travel.
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by gyardley 11y ago
Right click, delete element. Almost as fast as closing the page, and you're no longer letting crap web designers dictate what you read and what you don't.
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by gyardley 11y ago
I also remember really enjoying it as a six or seven year old. I remember how excited I was when I figured out how the forest and the government linked to the various screens with the wells, and which directions would guarantee you fell int
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by gyardley 11y ago
Online advertising is a perfect example of the tragedy of the commons, where that commons is the general public's attention. Any individual publisher or advertiser can do a little bit better by surpassing what the general public finds

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