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His username here is rtm: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtm

I don't think the original got enough attention for this one to merit a flag. Also, the guidelines here say that "when you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

There are methods of handwriting that allow you to avoid hand cramps. The Palmer method of handwriting, which was popular in America at the turn of the 20th century, emphasized usi…

The real scandal here happened in 1959. When Congress passed created 501(c)(4)s, the law said that (emphasis is mine): "Civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but …

> We were once great at innovating in the physical world...But recently, software (and mostly Internet software) has been the focus of innovation, and its importance is probably st…

I posted this comment about obscenities on another thread recently, but I think it is relevant to this thread as well. According to Paul Fussell's Class: A Guide Through the Americ…

My favorite story about how Ernst Kummer [1] did arithmetic, from Hoffman's The Man Who Loved Only Numbers [2]: "One story has him standing before a blackboard, trying to compute 7…