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medium.com 6y ago

I Don't Love Columbus Because I Can't Participate in It [Uber/Lyft]

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slate.com 7y ago

Facebook Is a Normal Sleazy Company Now

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slate.com 8y ago

Every Silicon Valley April Fool's Joke Was Selling You Something

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slate.com 8y ago

The Real Scandal Isn't Cambridge Analytica – It's Facebook's Business Model

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www.cnn.com 8y ago

For $1, the Trump campaign will include your name on its SOTU livestream

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venturebeat.com 8y ago

How Blockchain Could Kill Both Cable and Netflix

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slate.com 8y ago

How Slate Got Fast: A peek under the hood of our new CMS

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medium.com 8y ago

Why I'm Not Surprised When I Hear That Powerful Men Are F**king Creeps

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www.slate.com 8y ago

Lockhart Steele Fired from Vox

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www.slate.com 8y ago

What Happened to Big Data?

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www.scrum.org 9y ago

ScrumOps: Scrum.org and DevOps Institute Partner to Transform IT Organizations

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www.slate.com 9y ago

The Good and Bad News About Cloudbleed

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arstechnica.com 9y ago

The New Streisand Effect: Barbra Calls Tim Cook to Change Siri’s Pronunciation

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www.forbes.com 10y ago

Dan Lyons' Startup Hell Was His Second Trip – Journalism Hell Was First

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www.latimes.com 10y ago

Yahoo ex-employee sues, alleging performance review manipulation, gender bias

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www.reuters.com 10y ago

Greece's Varoufakis confirms covert plan to hack tax codes

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news.hitb.org 11y ago

Major security alert as 40K MongoDB databases left unsecured on the internet

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thereformedbroker.com 11y ago

Ten Signs You've Been on Wall Street Too Long

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www.cnet.com 11y ago

Twitter is run by potheads, suggests famed investor Thiel

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www.hanselman.com 12y ago

Trying Redis Caching as a Service on Windows Azure

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www.hanselman.com 12y ago

Xamarin.Forms – Write Once, Run Everywhere, AND Be Native?

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www.washingtonpost.com 13y ago

How Financial Arbitrage Explains the NBA Finals

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www.farnamstreetblog.com 13y ago

The Single Most Important Change You Can Make In Your Working Habits

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www.theatlantic.com 13y ago

How Memes Are Orchestrated by the Man

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www.slate.com 14y ago

Queueing theory: What people hate most about waiting in line

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jsdrama.com 14y ago

JavaScript Drama

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campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com 14y ago

Entrepreneurs win half a loaf with the JOBS Act

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www.slate.com 14y ago

Apple’s stock price: It’s still a bargain.

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techland.time.com 14y ago

Obama to Hold Google+ ‘Hangout’ After State of the Union

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www.theatlanticwire.com 14y ago

Megaupload Founder Had Mega Swag

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Correct. It simply provides context. The article should be judged on its own merits, but it's important to know when a given source leans one way or another. Especially when the organization uses ostensibly general/objective words in its name (see: Center for Immigration Studies).

I have paid for Pluralsight in the past (right now I have a free subscription).

In my experience the courses are fairly comprehensive, and the quality of the videos is high.

Pluralsight started out fairly Microsoft-heavy, but their course catalog is expanding all the time into different platforms and technologies.

For what you get I think the price is reasonable.

Yes, but I suppose it's a matter of expectation. When I read NYT or WSJ or Slate or National Review I will get a fairly consistent message.

We don't see a lot of extreme partisan publications linked in HN, probably for good reason. Just wanted to note that although The Hill is not on the MSNBC/Fox spectrum, its editorial content may well be.

First Google result is a link to Fox News, and an article titled "Liz Peek: Census 2020 – Liberals, get over it, we must ask about citizenship!"

People can agree or disagree with that, but The Hill does not appear to have a consistent editorial stance that is separate from individual authors.

I have seen moderate contributors as well as more extreme partisan ones.

Perhaps it's worth talking to a therapist to examine your relationship with your family?

No matter what the legal situation is, emotionally this is your company as well, and I can't imagine how hard it must be to stop working there.

Talking with an objective outsider might give you some perspective on how best to set boundaries, to be involved but still respected and properly valued for your work.

Although "snake" is a strong word, it may be apt -- it does seem that your father continues to use your emotional attachment to the company as a bargaining chip against you.

The problem is that the pool of "few very good active managers" is changing all the time.

And if you happen to find an outperforming active manager, it's like buying high -- managers, like the market, always revert to the mean.

It's not so much of a "flyover" state dynamic -- it's more rural vs urban.

States like OH and KY have more rural space, which tends to lean conservative, which increases the chances of hearing about extreme-right nonsense.

I would imagine the opposite is true in states with more urban space and the nonsense of the extreme left.

Urban areas in OH and KY are similar in terms of cultural offerings and advanced technology of most cities. Or at least they are in Columbus....

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity

Plus location of birth. I'm pretty sure being born in a developed country, as opposed to somewhere like the DPRK, qualifies as blind luck.

5 Stocks accounting for most of growth is troublesome when corrected, but still not catastrophic.

Yes -- this is the whole point of owning a broad index.

You get exposure to the highest-performing stocks -- what those actual companies are changes over time.

And there's usually another company to step up and fill the gap when one of the leaders falls.