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cpr
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About cpr
Long-time "lifestyle" software entrepreneur (small company since 1990), grizzled Silicon Valley start-up scene veteran (1980's), homeschooling father of 8, Harvard grad.
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Comment #48700665
The same holds true of precious metals, most definitely. If things really HTF, you're gonna want to not be blocked by a closed bank, etc.
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Comment #48261690
I remember reading Unix source in Geoff Steckel‘s office at Harvard who got the first Unix distribution outside of their labs and the line printer would just would use overstrike o…
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Comment #47006317
Helped Carl Helmers start Byte along with another Intermetrics co-worker Dan Fylstra (who founded VisiCorp a bit later, the first PC software company that published VisiCalc) in th…
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Comment #47005234
Look up "where did the towers go?" on Youtube, a lecture by materials scientist Judy Wood. She argues I think conclusively that the towers were turned into dust by directed energy …
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Comment #46630490
I think he was referencing Ted Kaszinski (sp?).
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Comment #46630478
Would love link to olive oil farm…
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Comment #45041695
"Muh Russia". C'mon, that's such a cheap take. The Fed has done nothing but destroy the value of the dollar since its founding in 1913.
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Comment #43523578
> When 1200 people compete for 1 open internship position, can I really afford to waste my time like this? If you think of education as trying to lead people into being whole human…
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Comment #43490171
Wow, that brings back memories! First saw the C compiler sources on Geoff Steckel (local guru)'s desk around 1973 at the Harvard graduate computing center, and was absolutely floor…
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Comment #43004314
I loved visiting the Mill back in the day when I was part of the crews buying DECSystem-20's for Columbia University and later the Fairchild AI Lab. What a great place to work, and…
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Comment #42660522
Yes, helped start it (first or second employee back in 1980(?)). Wild! I had forgotten the LispMs had Impress support; I think that came out of the time when we worked with Janet W…
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Comment #42657409
Nah, it'd come out too much as "almost famous". I did manage to avoid being Microsoft employee #12 or so (my buddy Bob Greenberg was #8, I think?, and encouraged me to come join th…
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Comment #42657061
And you know because...?
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Comment #42650143
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-testim... -- see "New and improved Joe Tippens protocol". Has worked for hundreds of people, and what has he got to lose? It's…
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Comment #42649860
That March 1977 map always brings back a flood of memories to this old-timer. Happy nights spent hacking in the Harvard graduate computer center next to the PDP-1/PDP-10 (Harv-1, H…
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Comment #42456810
Because it was lab created. That's been well established.
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Comment #42138931
Are you joking? The current US government is the most corrupt entity in the history of the world, if you multiple corruption times power. And I love my country (USA), but just hate…
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Comment #41781534
The problem is that if you want to provide a full-featured file picker, and not rely on Google's limited browser-based version, your app will require the full "drive" scope. (We do…
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Comment #41493201
There's nothing quite like the "flow" you get into when you're a fast, accurate typist and the code just pours of you like honey. (Well, that sounds slow. ;-) Especially when using…
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Comment #41364206
Wow, memory lane! Used it (only amateurishly) about 30 years ago...
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Comment #41305686
Very censored. Pukes out the standard lies about vaxx dangers.
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Comment #41202880
Any examples anywhere? Being prompted to log in/sign up is a show-stopper.
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Comment #41202856
Even better, you can get a 15m Ethernet cable that brings the network to the point of power (with the standard 15m power cable). I had my Mini set up outside and extended the power…
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