marcusgarvey

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White House Release the President’s Budget in Open Data Format(fedscoop.com)
2 points by marcusgarvey 11y ago|0 comments
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
>Every single person (from your boss down) will ask you why you are primary caregiver. That's awful. More evidence that gender stereotypes need changing.
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
Just curious: have any male founders here been asked the childcare question whilst pitching VCs?
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
One view: this article is "an economically warped account that leaves important policy options off the table." http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/new-york-times-bank-b...
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
How right you are. Arrangementfinder.com is the company in this space owned by Avid Life. It simply didn't occur to me that there would be yet another company with such a similar name in this space.
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
Seeking Arrangement is brought to you by the fine folks behind Ashley Madison. So I would take any of their data with a boulder-sized grain of salt. I'm surprised that The Atlantic would base an entire article on their data without doi
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
What can startups do to help increase prosperity for everyone? Help get money out of politics. This is fundamental. In the current state, all policies are tilted towards the most prosperous among us. We all know this. We need our public ser
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The Zika virus foreshadows our dystopian climate future(theguardian.com)
5 points by marcusgarvey 11y ago|4 comments
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
Didn't realize the extent to which FB is (or soon will be reliant) on emerging markets. It has a huge established base in the U.S. -- no slouch there. But the growth rates are quite different. >The point is that APAC and other “emer
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The Future of Facebook Advertising Isn’t in the United States(recode.net)
3 points by marcusgarvey 11y ago|1 comments
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
Sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing. Extended family living arrangements have some sort of class stigma in developed countries, but they are clearly advantageous in many ways.
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Trudeau Drops Humblebrag About University of Waterloo in Davos Keynote(huffingtonpost.ca)
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
Painkillers are often prescribed after serious surgeries, like knee or hip replacement.
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
This reminds me of what I've heard about MasterCard. Their CEO wanted to empower any employee to come up with good ideas. So, if an employees sends an idea to their manager and the manager doesn't respond, the employee has the rig
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
I have been wondering why the U.S. seems to have moved so far from the trust-busting days of Teddy Roosevelt, and why it now seems so permissive towards monopolistic practices. This helps explain it https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
...and now knowing this, I wish it were the approach for _all_ scientific research.
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“Observing the end of our economy’s lifetime.”(ourfiniteworld.com)
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
>Ironically, some of the greatest economic progress for Black Americans occurred during the oppressive Jim Crow era because Black consumers had to buy goods and services from Black-friendly and Black-owned & operated businesses. On a
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
The widespread existence of such policies -- long after slavery ended, sanctioned by the federal government and generations-long, is why folks like Ta-Nehisi Coates can make a persuasive case for reparations. http://www.theatlant
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
From a resolution passed last year by Goshen, Indiana, disavowing its past as a sundown town. A RESOLUTION ACKNOWLEDGING THE RACIALLY EXCLUSIONARY PAST OF GOSHEN, INDIANA, AS A 'SUNDOWN TOWN' WHEREAS the Preamble to the Constituti
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
Says former Fed governor Fisher: "We frontloaded a tremendous market rally to create a wealth effect ... The Federal Reserve is a giant weapon that has no ammunition left." http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com&#x2
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
I am thinking that I need to start migrating all the stuff I have on Evernote to somewhere else. I am not convinced of their longevity given the recent press I have read.
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I'm glad this exists. I think it's important to point out: it's not just that black travelers had to find places to stay overnight that were welcoming because Jim Crow laws meant that many hotels and boarding houses only acce
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
>In the long run this leads to oligarchy and possibly even economic and societal collapse. We are nowhere near there [...] False. We are there. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
>Does anyone really believe that if only the rules weren't "rigged" local shops and businesses would be able to compete against Wal-Mart and Amazon? To look at just one example, how long did it take to force Amazon to coll
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
A "Rumsfeldian" visualizer. Neat! http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/rumsfeld...
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
From the Pastebin doc of his tweets: >5:27pm: Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue. http://pastebin.com/yk8bgru5 Nice in
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
Do you have any product reccos?
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Maybe that's why many New Yorkers believe, to an almost fanatical degree, that it's the best city on earth. It's the only way to resolve the cognitive dissonance that comes when you realize its shockingly poor quality of life
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Did you read the article? >Scott, initially, hadn’t wanted to be a mother — and in fact she’d been told she couldn’t be one. A doctor 10 years ago said that complications from a bladder surgery when she was a teen had rendered her infert

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