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fjdlwlv··on Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
She was a falling start before joinging Yahoo, having been demoted from.her previous senior VP role
fjdlwlv··on Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
The comment above is false, it if ignores the value of equity. Fortune was pushing a bullshit sexism narrative. Mayer made 10x in equity what McInerney made in salary
fjdlwlv··on Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
Yahoo hired her after she got demoted from senior leadership at Google. They got her on her way down, and vice versa.
fjdlwlv··on Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
The CEO of Alibaba decided that Alibaba would give away half of its assets to the CEO
fjdlwlv··on Mathematical Chronology
Galileo's wasn't held back by religious intervention against science.

Even debates about heliocentrism weren't interfering with math.

fjdlwlv··on Mathematical Chronology
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ does what you describe
fjdlwlv··on Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber
7 grains, at least 3 high
fjdlwlv··on Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber
All of taxonomy is pattern matching unless you have something like kennel clubs or Mormons tracking individual genealogy​
fjdlwlv··on Facebook Files Patent to Secretly Watch Users Through Webcam
This patent is 3 years old, obviously a "patent every idea you have" filing, and nothing in the story supports the headline "secret".

This story has no value.

fjdlwlv··on Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker
Those ads are very expensive to place on the page and have lower inventory. Aka less efficient than popular ads
fjdlwlv··on A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW, Fiat diesel cheats
When the news originally hit, it was estimated that some number of air-quality related deaths were attributable to ait pollution contributions
fjdlwlv··on A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW, Fiat diesel cheats
Seems like the "organic" fad was the problem
fjdlwlv··on How to Sleep
The Atlantic stopped publishing serious research article several years ago.

The two examples you​ list are personal essays/confessions

fjdlwlv··on How to Sleep
You confessed to several violent offenses in your first post
fjdlwlv··on How to Sleep
When did you stop being a psychopath? Were you aware of the change?
fjdlwlv··on Too many prisons make people worse
So, in practice, white people in rehab, black people in prison? That's what we do now. See the Reagan era disparity in cocaine vs crack punishment
fjdlwlv··on Too many prisons make people worse
14% is huge, especially considering how many people commit crime because their life was destroyed by a drug conviction (their own or their parent's) leading to further crime.
fjdlwlv··on Too many prisons make people worse
Your math is wrong, rayiner didn't mention neighborhood variation at all, and Simpson paradox is relevant to changes over time or resampling, not simple rate comparisons
fjdlwlv··on Too many prisons make people worse
America was hateful and racist back when voters were all rich Anglos too.
fjdlwlv··on Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Website
Big telecom companies like Verizon, who make their money by hijacking public infrastructure and then renting access to it, oppose net neutrality.
fjdlwlv··on Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Website
No, Internet.org Free Basics is Facebook paying people's data costs for traffic to Facebook services, akin to Amazon giving out Amazon gift cards. It isn't preventing anyone from buying other traffic at standard destination-neutral rates, or privatizing a publicly-financed utility.
fjdlwlv··on Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Website
FCC's job is to make and enforce policy that conforms to the law set by Congress, not to hold and obey public votes.
fjdlwlv··on Dead People Are Posting Anti-Net Neutrality Comments to FCC Website
What does spam have to do with the FCC's decision making?

Nothing.

Comments are for submitting ideas. It was never supposed to be a popular vote.

fjdlwlv··on Why Flamingos Are More Stable on One Leg Than Two
You said yourself that putting the second foot down doesn't increase stability. It's a paradox.
fjdlwlv··on My Family’s Slave
Why not both?
fjdlwlv··on The effects of growing up with an extremely common name
Sorry, Ringo :-(
fjdlwlv··on There is no pass by reference in Go
Yes.
fjdlwlv··on Why Wallflowers Don't Make Friends
Still looks a little competitive. Not everyone is wealthy enough to travel.
fjdlwlv··on Why Wallflowers Don't Make Friends
It was confusion about whether "workout" is the same as "work out"
fjdlwlv··on On emotional authenticity and masking as an autistic person
D is for disorder. People who say NT are people who challenge the claim that Disorder is appropriate terminology. Instead of an "order/disorder"distinction, they draw a "typical/diverse" distinction.

NT isn't quite neutral -- nothing ever is -- it's an intentional removal of the bias that the center of the bell curve is superior.

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