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BTW, this is where I show my powerlevel and burn the account. Nice knowing you, HN. I learned a lot.

It's a later "chapter." The man writes essays, and he tried to string them into a book. The attempt is laughable, but the essays stand on their own.

This will be dismissed as racist, pseudo-intellectual drivel by the effete silicon set, but anyone wanting to understand why this happens ought to read Jack Donovan's excellent ess…

We're having fun at this, but I think you may have just found a way to better gamify wellness initiatives...

Hear hear.

It's really not. People used to pass the bar without ever going to a law school. The entire profession has been captured by educational institutions. It's a posterchild for what te…

Step 1. Get admitted to MIT Step 2. ???? Step 3. Profit. This is a really cool story, but if the OP isn't coming from somewhere as highly regarded, it may not be the best thing to …

I think the last UI decision google got right was the search box on the main page.

Aw hell no. It's hard enough to concentrate in a cubicle.

I think it would be better that the landlords were not the beneficiaries of this type of subsidy, though. I'd prefer to see them have to compete, and this doesn't attack the proble…

This is awesome. No more searching for quick workarounds to share notebooks with people who don't know how to use a command line.

Step 1: get into MIT... Looks like that train has sailed. :-)

It reads like a precocious high-schooler wrote it. I stopped reading when I got to that paragraph.

You might find this interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment It blew my mind when I first encountered it.

Some of us think the system can't be fixed--we just want ours. And that's okay.

I imagine there would be pretty good money in licensing an API. That's probably where the real money is--let the idiots make the trades, and you sell them the software.

This is the most important question here. (Thanks for the giggles it gave me. You made my morning.)

Yep! And I quoted the article's quote from a critic. I felt it was worth pointing out one of the most patently ridiculous things I've ever heard, and the fact that it was given pla…

>“If Kleiner wanted to look classy, it could have said, ‘This was hard fought and we obviously disagree with your view, but it’s in the interest of all parties to walk away. In the…

>With only a brief skim of your talk, I wonder what you think of the moral implications of this project being DARPA supported. You're not adding to the conversation by pointing thi…

You know what doesn't have loud ads? Good, old-fashioned print books. I've been meaning to go back to them over a lot of other entertainment media consumption.

I lived through a large natural disaster. (I don't want to go into specifics because I like my anonymity.) The local FM station was the only show in town for about 2 days. The loca…

The war on drugs is a jobs program. Period, end of story. It reduces the labor supply by keeping a large segment of society behind bars, and it provides employment in enforcement f…