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I don't understand the legal or ethical rationale that these scooters are different from any other items discarded on the sidewalk. This is different from leaving your personal sco…

> The hero in the story is an Israeli soldier who decided to risk his life over a few dollars in his pocket. To do what, prove he was macho? I've seen that blog posted here before.…

"It made him sick to have to turn money over to the guys who stole it. He'd rather whack 'em." -Goodfellas

> I think a lot of boys do aspire the adrenaline rush professions. But if they don't end up being one, do they now resign from their whole lives and just go saying the social persu…

The comment you reference was made in July 2010. The bug report that triggered the banning was made a week ago, and just sounded petulant. It didn't make any personal statements ab…

> The goal is not to determine what is objective fact. There is no such thing, not even in natural sciences such as physics. Dont forget that. I'm not sure where you're going with …

Sure, technology is great and all, but the historical analysis is simplistic. > A patrician in ancient Rome might be able to make a name for himself around his neighborhood over th…

You may be thinking of Cleitus. The Diogenes and Alexander story usually ends with Alexander telling his entourage, "If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."

Every band that's ever gotten popular, every community (online or off) that's ever gotten big. Lamenting that the scene was cooler back in the day seems to be a deep-seated human b…

I'm not sure what sexism you mean specifically, but my skepticism has nothing to do with the specifics of the persona. Of course there are 16-year-old girl hackers. My wife once wa…

It struck me as good advice for anyone of sound mind. For that fraction of the homeless who are mentally ill, probably there's no advice that would help much until they took care o…

In fairness, that's a description of what a routine and successful build "should" go like. I bet if IMVU were to post a blow-by-blow account of their hairiest deployment screwup ev…

There are sooo many interesting problems in the world, I never run out of stuff to do for fun. If you want me to implement your spec that takes more than 15 minutes or so, then a) …

Well, it's a good thing that Ciccio Bong, Wholly Subversive, and Guy Fawkes used their real names, then.

More cynically, to the extent that ex-press secretaries' private sector value derives from their access to those in power, they're worth more while their crew is still in office.

Sure there are. The standard rationale is that when hiring, the cost of a false negative is far lower than the cost of a false positive. I guess it's also true that the cost of a f…

So an industry-funded "skeptic" group went around a UN conference with a prank petition. That's nice, but they're hand-waving about how many people actually signed. "radical left-w…

Depends on your talents.

It seems like the meat of the course and how you grade it are somewhat orthogonal. Have you ever tried teaching it for real, however you think the semester would best be spent, the…

Could you name some of the run-down neighborhoods next to campuses? I don't see it, unless there are some Yale campuses in Fields Corner that I don't know about.

In that case, it sounds like you're fucked. I have to think a startup whose plan requires the head technical person to spend any significant amount of time holding interns' hands i…

That was in the BBC adaptation of "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand. Both the book and the miniseries (which is on Youtube in segments) are excellent. I heard about Christophe…