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by gyardley 11y ago
I was in the Falklands earlier this year, and the place acts more English than England. You'd have to deport everyone en masse to make it seem remotely Argentine. That doesn't stop the Argentinians from packing their cities with m
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by gyardley 11y ago
Argentina is lovely, and not just Buenos Aires. Good god, the wine. You can have an incredible wine-tasting vacation in Mendoza or Cafayate. If you love the outdoors, there's Tierra del Fuego - which is also the jumping off point for A
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by gyardley 11y ago
Honestly, it's hard as hell for adults to make new friends. It's hard as hell for most adults to even maintain the friendships they have, what with moving around and more formalized obligations like family. In practice, you make t
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by gyardley 11y ago
Would you really be convinced by any critique of the New York Times coming from a conservative source? There are many of them and they're not hard to find. If not, you could do worse than just reading the column of the New York Times&#
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by gyardley 11y ago
I agree with Bruni's general point, but I'd take Bruni himself a bit more seriously if he didn't cherry pick his examples from people he traditionally disagrees with. Repugnant piggybacking on this atrocity is taking place ac
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by gyardley 11y ago
Well, no, but that's probably because 'Lies My Teacher Told Me' is by a completely different author. That book commits its own sins, primarily ones of omission, but agreed, it's far better than Zinn's 800-page Manic
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by gyardley 11y ago
Strange. I went yesterday (had to do something while I waited for dumplings) and thought it was just an ordinary bookstore. What grabbed you so much that I missed?
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by gyardley 11y ago
Honestly, your job is to get yourself into a product management role where you'll be properly mentored by someone more experienced. I'd persuade your company that they need to hire someone senior for you to learn from or move to a
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by gyardley 11y ago
The best way to improve gender equity in tech (and fight just about every other form of discrimination at the same time) is to put an end to Silicon Valley's ridiculous culture of overwork. I don't know how everyone fell into this
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by gyardley 11y ago
There's certainly ageism in Silicon Valley, but if we magically got rid of it tomorrow it's not like startups would suddenly be flooded by applicants my age and older. Most older people select themselves out of Silicon Valley beca
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by gyardley 11y ago
Nope. Not legally allowed to vote in my birth country, since I've been away too long, and not legally allowed to vote in the country I currently live in, since I'm not a citizen. I have to admit I don't see much point voting
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by gyardley 11y ago
We need to worry about 'designer babies' about as much as we need to worry about 'hostile AI' and other far-removed science-fiction concepts. In reality, in-vitro fertilization is a lengthy, complicated, painful, expensi
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IAB Starts Publicity and Engineering Battle Against Ad Blocking(adage.com)
25 points by gyardley 11y ago|28 comments
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IAB Starts Publicity and Engineering Battle Against Ad Blocking(adage.com)
3 points by gyardley 11y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 11y ago
This might have worked back in 2008 or so, when this variety of app was still using third-party analytics software. In fact there was such a thing for jailbroken iOS versions - my startup even helped build one in an attempt to stave off som
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by gyardley 11y ago
Yep, you're probably right - this is on par with that six-year-old who nibbled his way to a semiautomatic PopTart. Zero percent tolerance, one hundred percent stupidity.
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by gyardley 11y ago
So, should we consider this event a net negative because this poor teenager got perp walked by a bunch of people who were quite likely racist and apparently too dumb to tell a circuit board from a bomb? Or should we consider this event a ne
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by gyardley 11y ago
Ad blocker blocking is becoming increasingly common. I use the Stylebot extension to strip away this sort of cruft on sites I visit frequently - it's almost always just setting 'display: none;' on a couple of elements.
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by gyardley 11y ago
That's right, save the north talk and arctic midnight for a place that's south of Edinburgh and just barely north of Dublin. That said, the thematic hackathon you suggested sounds super interesting - don't let that go to wast
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by gyardley 11y ago
Easter Island doesn't just have an airport on it, it's got an airport with a runway built long enough to accommodate the Space Shuttle. It's an awesome place to visit - a town of a few thousand people, surprisingly good food,
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by gyardley 11y ago
The legal codes we're subject to, whether we are or we aren't. I believe in most locales people are responsible for their own children, but - and correct me if I'm wrong, happy to learn something - I don't think there&#x
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by gyardley 11y ago
Whether we should be is up for debate, but no, I'm pretty sure we're not.
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by gyardley 11y ago
The percentage of people who actually value fairness / meritocracy / social mobility over the personal outcomes of their own children is probably in the low single digits.
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by gyardley 11y ago
Your individual experience will vary with the company, but here's some generalities about product management. First, product manager != people manager. Despite 'manager' in the title, a typical product manager is an 'ind
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by gyardley 11y ago
I always find this sort of relativistic 'define good' comment somewhat irritating and pedantic - yes, we can debate the exact outlines of 'better' somewhat, but the gist of it is obvious. In this case, reading a well-wri
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by gyardley 11y ago
Politically and economically powerful people don't need some obviously-for-suckers website to have an affair.
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by gyardley 11y ago
In a well-designed society my wife and I can't voluntarily decide to save up and have a really nice dinner for our anniversary? What kind of person is this designer?
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by gyardley 11y ago
This comment doesn't mesh at all with my experience at any high-end NYC restaurant, including the place where this guy worked. The staff isn't subservient; they've got some expertise, so they steer and make recommendations so
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by gyardley 11y ago
Nothing's ever a perfect fit, but based on your preferences I'd look at Boulder, Colorado. I've got a friend who moved with his young children a couple years ago and seems to love it - should you want an introduction, email m
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by gyardley 11y ago
We don't know - they weren't the subject of the study, which in itself is subject to debate. In general, don't use the tu quoque fallacy to attempt to derail conversations. It's obnoxious and wastes everybody's ti

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