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Maybe I just missed it, but I don't see where DockDoor has anything at all to do with spaces.

One professor in one class has not fixed the problem. You can't generalize that to the whole university. Even for that one professor/class, it's not the case that the problem can't…

Many years ago I had such a profound insight in one of my dreams that I woke up and wrote it down on an index card so I wouldn't forget. Here's the pearl of wisdom I captured for p…

https://archive.ph/rSce4

We don't need an acronym; people just need to stop posting these utterly worthless comments.

It has been 30 years since Congress last passed a budget.

I've noticed the occasional momentary failure to resize a window, and this probably explains it, but it's worth noting that the cursor changes to a "resize arrows" cursor when it e…

In what way does it make fun of it? It's simply an example of it. And with no apparent way to turn it off. (Edit: There is a non -apparent way to turn it off. I still think having …

One time in Boston a stranger literally pulled me back to the curb as I was about to walk out in front of a turning UPS truck. (This was long before smartphones; I was just being a…

I can't imagine why this article link is on HN, but I'm glad it is. The 280ZX was the first car I remember actively lusting for.

Similarly, my sister-in-law is a hospitalist, so I've come to consider it a commonly used and widely known term, but now that I think about it I don't believe I've ever heard anyon…

It's not going to be good, but it's really just an accelerant for a denial of reality that's been building for a long time. I mean, there are corners of the Internet where people s…

The paragraphs on all pages are formatted quite narrowly, displaying only 3 - 6 words per line. If this bothers people, it can also be changed with Stylebot or the like, using a ru…

If you have Stylebot or the like installed, you can get rid of the highlighting with: a { background-color: transparent; }

Exporting fossil fuels nets the government $37 trillion (and growing by trillions per year). It's impossible to expand the sale of fossil fuels enough to make any kind of noticeabl…

The article says the software developer is making a six-figure salary and the prison system withholds 10%.

> prisoners being coerced to work is payment for their crimes. On the other hand, that job would have gone to someone else at market rates. This kind of thing drags down the market…

MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, and I believe most or all of the other Ivies, all fund 100% of the demonstrated financial need of every student, and they do not consider the fin…

http://archive.today/T5uin

http://archive.today/9FzGF A really good article, although it's weird for the NYT to try so hard to frame the explosion of cheap green energy technology coming from China as someho…

The "point" the article is trying to make is that there is a decline in literacy so severe that it means "the end of civilization" -- a strong claim, to say the least, and one that…

I'm sympathetic to the concerns motivating this essay, but the charts related to test scores are ridiculous. The y-axis is so compressed it makes it look like performance has drama…

This drives me crazy, too, but it seems like the misspelled version is now more common than the correct one. I imagine the dictionaries will eventually cave to common usage and say…

> Altman was touring globally to raise $7T (yes, trillion), just a few months ago. A few points about that: It wasn't just a few months ago, it was more than a year ago; he wasn't …