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His life, the studies he undertook quietly over protracted periods of time . . . there is no "one book" . . . his mind was a burrowing mind . . . If you appreciate logic, well-reas…

You'll not waste your time reading everything you can get your hands on regarding E.O.Wilson -- to include anything he wrote, or anything written about him by those he influenced a…

Anyone bothered that this website is rated by Chrome as insecure? Low level alert, relatively . . . still . . ?

Old coder here...multiple environments ... I've kept up, still making enough to live comfortably ... hope to retire soon. Couple of thoughts: 1) Not a bad idea, been proposed befor…

You sound as if you're doing well, professionally. Esteem from your work comrades, who share your work environment and it's challenges, is not to be taken lightly . . . you have ex…

In my opinion, live content is often on target, just as often poorly thought out. The citizenry votes with ballots . . . and dollars. One is often as effective as the other in stee…

Lapham is a national treasure...time spent reading his essays, or content he has assembled, or edited, is time well spent... I've been a regular subscriber to Harper's, as well, fo…

>>You can't translation energy. This is a good point...a good translation depends heavily on preserving the writer's "voice", which is unique to each writer... Masterful translatio…

Cornered raccoons fight with a ferocity that most other animals, especially domesticated pets, learn to respect after only one encounter...if they survive the encounter... It's not…

>>You're not in a movie, fracking is not going to cause some sort of earthquake catastrophe. I have in-laws that live north of Edmond OK and the almost daily tremors and quakes the…

>>I don't know if this is the "right" decision, but I'm willing to wager that NPR will be around long after Twitter has filed for bankruptcy. Let us hope so...anyone attempting to …

>NPR has advertisements on their podcasts, usually at the beginning and/or end of a show. I would love to see all advertising done this way--announce who makes the content possible…

You make good points...most of them seem to hinge on your awareness that your time is limited, or that the topic is not one you're intensely interested in... I'm forced to make cho…

>>The only reason to write a quality book is vanity at this point. No, not always...the reason some strive to write a "quality" book, is not money, though for some that would be ni…

The author is right...it doesn't take a high level of talent, or any at all in his example, to become a "best seller"... I pay no attention to "best seller" labels... I realized qu…

Agreed, especially on the points touched upon in your last paragraph... So much of what I see on the Internet seems "dashed off",as if a gun were being held to the writer's head...…

It's simply that no one can tell whether or not you own the car, just by seeing you drive by in it, or seeing it in your driveway... The true "equity" in a great number of cars on …

This is a very good point... We all have jobs to do, and we all face obstacles, limitations, and hurdles...we all face them daily in whatever work we do... We know that, and yet we…

Regarding structure scanning, I see a few details online... Would you consider working up a write up, for Show HN, with all the detail you care to share about your structure scanni…

Agreed... This article is fascinating...this man--Jerry Mitrovica--is obviously a genius...the techniques used to arrive at the conclusions he's reached...just wow... My takeaway i…

From the HN-posted article from USA TODAY: >>>The case has far-reaching implications for the privacy of millions of iPhone users, the Apple executive said. If the FBI is successful…