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Arno Penzias when he directed Crawford Hill Laboratory at Bell Labs is said to have sent a memo to the scientists working there. In the memo he said that a VP had visited Crawford …

I have a PhD from Caltech in Applied Physics/Engineering. I worked for a physics prof when I felt like it. He didn't even KNOW when I was working for the most part, and I took grea…

There is a rather strong and noble tradition among great physicists of being a little bit off the beaten track. Read Feynman. The bets between Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne at Cal…

That nothing I believe can be proved.

I didn't have my first personal computer until I was 30. It was a Sun 3 "dickless" workstation on my desk, POS. I gave it to my grad student and got a Mac II the next year. I read …

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600968 is the Chomsky link that prompted this poll. In case there are anybody besides me who would want to see the link before blessing or damni…

So we have a live wannabe fraud committer who claims to have sent us a check which accidentally overpays for some furniture he is "buying" from us. Anybody out there have any good …

"showdead" should allow me to follow links in killed submissions. Right now I can see the title of the dead links, but there is nothing I can click on to actually go to the page wh…

It almost certainly correlates better with how recently you leared English than with your ability to structrue thoughts.

Sure, you can't evaluate every dingdong idea. But when you find one you are going to skip, you can either do so respectfully, or you can declare to everyone around you that even in…

You are not only ashamed of getting caught. You INTERNALIZE the shame. You BELIEVE you are no good. I was just watching a youtube video that had a clip of a "youth minister" in a c…

Excellent observation about the larger openness of the debate in Israel. I have seen that as well. Indeed, when in Israel I have talked to people on both sides of the issue and nev…

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580981 is killed but with 52 comments behind it. Am I just too much of a newbie, or is there actually no way to see a thread declared dead? Can …

This discussion provides great source material for investigating the things you can't say, and what happens when you say them. You fall down a rabbit hole. Or rather I do, and I ge…

I'm particularly interested in your reactions to the section describing the 8 Day Workshop.

Your post reads like a red herring (in the stock sense). A "story stock" has to have a good story, it doesn't have to have numbers behind it. Anything's reproductive "goal", in any…

Arrested, but not convicted, the only way to talk to my brother in law in jail was to pay a few $ per minute when he called us collect. I have read descriptions of why the jails sh…

I loved that even in the midst of being hassled by the police, he gives the one policeman incredible credit for his approach to other humans. There is beauty everywhere.

I would consider that this guy, being actually homeless, is at least as valuable a source on homelessness as a woman you knew who worked with them. I suspect that more generally th…

There are hints of it, how to deal with authority, even where to be homeless (CSU campus good). Also, if you are interested you would start to explore the directory tree this doc i…

The premise of this question confuses freedom with entropy. A smart person who does all sorts of stupid things to screw herself up, drinking, who knows what else, can easily live t…