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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
It's a misleading metric.
At home I block all ad server domains with a host file on my router. This triggers the Adblock wall. When I am at work or on the road I get a message "Thanks for turning off your adblock."
However, at least Forbes is only deluding themselves and not their clients. There are eyebrow raising demographic issues with internet ads.
Comment · 10 years ago
I block ads because "native" ad producers like Taboola, Outbrain, Revcontent, ... you get the point. These advertising companies like to show NSFW content at the end of news articles at some sites. Therefore I block ads for the same reason I block pornographic sites.
This was pretty liberating because before "native" ads I felt a pang of guilt for blocking ads.
If Google wants to stop ad blockers they should hide sites that use these obnoxious "native" ad networks.
Comment · 10 years ago
you have "turtles all the way down" of bubble mentality
Comment · 10 years ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HvLmJGM_T3M
Try listening at night maybe?
Comment · 10 years ago
Only, but only a little gas gets out. It's ok. Coal is the enemy mainly because you can see it. Natural Gas requires infrared camera to detect. No this isn't snark/cynicism: we regulate the opacity of a scrubbed coal plant's output.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
Comment · 10 years ago
here are some images for you to meditate on
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HrtQUEgYjKs
http://media.mlive.com/saginawnews_impact/photo/12375884-lar...
Comment · 10 years ago
There's no futures symbol because coal is inherently worth different values based on location. It's a solid, it doesn't spoil (sometimes it spontaneously combusts), you need a whole lot of it to do anything useful. These difficulties fragment the market. For example there are futures for: Australia coal, South Africa coal, Wyoming powder basin coal, Illinois basin coal, etc. It is transported by train or on a dry bulk ship.
Comment · 10 years ago
coal is in the process of consolidation/deleveraging/bankruptcy and they would be making this decision anyways. congrats on extracting social justice points from your business decision.
Comment · 10 years ago
If you have this problem in only winter, this gadget actually does a lot for me:
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-HF3520-Wake-Up-Colored-Simulat...
It simulates a sunrise and sunset with bright LEDs. I always wake up before the audio alarm starts. Before this I was very difficult morning riser. I may be more light sensitive than you, but it works for me, and has some medical research to back up the idea.
Comment · 10 years ago
Yowza, sick burn on your coworker! Since we are talking about hiring practices have you read this section of Joel's Guerilla Guide to Interviewing?
"People who are Smart but don’t Get Things Done often have PhDs and work in big companies where nobody listens to them because they are completely impractical. They would rather mull over something academic about a problem rather than ship on time. These kind of people can be identified because they love to point out the theoretical similarity between two widely divergent concepts. For example, they will say, “Spreadsheets are really just a special case of programming language,” and then go off for a week and write a thrilling, brilliant whitepaper about the theoretical computational linguistic attributes of a spreadsheet as a programming language. Smart, but not useful. The other way to identify these people is that they have a tendency to show up at your office, coffee mug in hand, and try to start a long conversation about the relative merits of Java introspection vs. COM type libraries, on the day you are trying to ship a beta."
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...
Sorry, until your industry sets professional standards I will continue to block ads and not feel bad.