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by gyardley 11y ago
Chile is corrupt from top to bottom. It's true that you can't bribe the cops, and Chileans are very proud of this (primarily because you can bribe the cops in Argentina), but access to opportunity in Chile is almost 100% depende
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by gyardley 11y ago
I met my wife at work - we were both product managers at an advertising startup.
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by gyardley 11y ago
Almost twenty employees, working remotely so you're probably not management, significant traction already, likely access to additional capital - okay, the equity seems a little low for 2015 but not obscenely so. There's more equ
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by gyardley 11y ago
The set of people who believe programming ability is bimodal and the set of people who believe they're in the higher of the two modes is pretty much identical.
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by gyardley 11y ago
It's odd that the page title is 'Human beings do not have an instinct for war', while the article title itself seems to be the far more representative 'Is there a war instinct?' The author is only arguing that we do
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by gyardley 11y ago
They look like Neilsen's Designated Market Areas to me - that weird little square one around Alpena, Michigan is a pretty strong indicator.
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by gyardley 11y ago
That's called the 'contact hypothesis'. There's been a few studies that support it (including a famous one involving WWII soldiers' attitudes to mixed-race platoons) but most social science research has found the op
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by gyardley 11y ago
It's an area in California with a lot of black people. There's more to racism than just this, but in America, racism tends to increase with proximity. More diversity in a community leads to less trust between (and within) ethnic g
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by gyardley 12y ago
'What if'? Prohibition is one of the examples - the policies aren't at all guaranteed to be good.
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by gyardley 12y ago
Of all the people to hand-wring about, the bohemians are the last we should worry about. They will relocate, but they will be fine - and they'll bring whatever benefits they bring to areas that need them a lot more than cash-flush citi
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by gyardley 12y ago
This SXSW presentation by Geoff Lewis is spot-on: http://www.slideshare.net/justGlew/the-terminal-plan-how-to-... I'm also a fan of Basil Peters' Early Exits book. I don't agree that you need an 'ex
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by gyardley 12y ago
"Companies don’t get sold, they get bought." I'm sorry that the author's company did something screwy with a daily deals company and it didn't work out, but this is extremely bad advice. For all but the most drama
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by gyardley 12y ago
When someone already says they're torn about an intermediate position, they're not likely to be in favor of one taken to cartoonish extremes.
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by gyardley 12y ago
Honestly, I'm a little torn. It sounds like a huge pain, and I wouldn't want to do it. Neither would anyone else. On the other hand, huge pains like this are how policy gets changed. If it became more obvious to everyone that this
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by gyardley 12y ago
Nope, for a few reasons. First, the IRS has already screwed my taxes up with faulty assumptions - three times over the last decade. Each time it's been a huge pain to correct. I simply don't trust them to get it right. Second, I d
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by gyardley 12y ago
This sort of thing happens to founders from time to time. I'm more interested in Lane's claim that OATV and First Round didn't see any money: https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585808886508040192 Th
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by gyardley 12y ago
The smartest thing I ever did was to sell my startup to Simon Khalaf's. Marissa's made a good move here.
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by gyardley 12y ago
Yes, but the type of restriction matters. Sometimes it's just a ROFR at the same price, and that alone isn't enough to deter either buyers or sellers from directly buying and selling.
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by gyardley 12y ago
People buying on secondary markets often directly buy shares. They only resort to derivatives when they're unable to buy directly due to stock restrictions.
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The Internet, the White House, and You (and Me)(medium.com)
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by gyardley 12y ago
The spelling of 'NFL' vs. 'N.F.L.' isn't up to the individual NYT writer. Whatever his preference, his editor will make sure it complies with the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, which in its 2015 edition s
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by gyardley 12y ago
SWSW is a bacchanal masquerading as a conference - 95% of the people there are there to get sloppy. That's not to say it's useless - fast friends are made through the social lubricant of alcohol, and these friends can then be leve
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by gyardley 12y ago
Oh, I'm not merely suggesting it. San Francisco is an extremely unfriendly place to people known to have the wrong politics.
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by gyardley 12y ago
Borderlands surprises me - I thought any business made unprofitable by San Francisco's minimum wage hikes would close up shop quietly, or just blame the evil landlord. After all, they've still got inventory to sell before they clo
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by gyardley 12y ago
Let's say it's January 2017 and President Bush or Rubio or Paul or Walker is being inaugurated. Does the 'U.S. Digital Service' actually keep getting funded? If it does, do the staff actually want to stay? Will any of th
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by gyardley 12y ago
I've never really understood why Groot stopped being able to say more than his name - he could talk just fine until 2008 or so: http://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/acstarlo... (On th
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by gyardley 12y ago
Hey, thanks for the pointer to the article. Unrestricted copy seems to be here: http://physics.ucf.edu/~britt/AST2002/R12-Smith-Alone%20in%2...
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by gyardley 12y ago
That depends on the type of extraterrestrial life discovered. There's a huge difference between us finding extraterrestrial life within our solar system (microbes on Mars, for example) and extraterrestrial life from outside the solar s
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by gyardley 12y ago
He's probably referring to the New York Times.
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by gyardley 12y ago
No matter what your thoughts on Middle Eastern politics, Rupert Murdoch is actually right this time - it's cringeworthy to think the president of the United States passed up a face-to-face meeting with the prime minister of Israel in f

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