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I assume the same rules apply.. have to move to SF.. I can't help but comment that we did have a great democracy machine (& education) with something called Television. Virtually f…

Mad is wonderful.. Tom Richmond is one I learn to draw [0] Jack Hamm has the best series, I think, to learn. [0] http://www.tomrichmond.com/

Seems to me the octothorpe is an AT&T or Bell Labs invention. I recall some crazy discussion in Murray Hill before I knew anything about Unix or telephony... LOL

I am sure I am baised, I just don't know how. I get that. How? I get this too.. and actually, you are way ahead of me as compared to my "youth" I wanted to be CEO and thought it wa…

Wow.. I don't know where to start.. Work harder and be better than the older person... Business is blind and choses the best. When you get to be 70 your body is failing and your se…

Heck no! Stop working, start dying.

I wish I could find the link to an American Heritage article on a female (I believe) that was on a failed crusade to overcome the amount of poverty, poor conditions and voicelessne…

I have a skimpy monthly data plan, and appreciate the fact that your changes does nothing to increase data intentionally or accidentally (like Reddit). I like the fact that the hid…

Since each punch card meant something, you really learned code. Watching out for memory and keeping track of registers was paramount (COMPASS was my HS and Freshman initial class).…

And... you always kept your card decks until you graduated.

"Pay up, Mortimer, I won the bet." "Here. One Dollar" From the vantage point I have in my union job and my part time job at a very large retailer with low wage hourly workers, ther…

My dad required his kids to change a flat AND read a map before we got the car keys. AAA membership was for maps only. There was great pride in planning our own trips on our own an…

The telephone was a shared device, and as a child it was not mine. In college, it was shared with 4 other people (and still not mine). Then once married, it was shared with my spou…

The Telephone with Dial Tone and associated Busy Signal. A busy signal meant nobody could contact me; Also, by either not answering the phone or by simply taking the receiver off t…

If "209 drinks and salads" were on the evenings sheet for a wedding, it would mean 209 of each. Furthermore, if a worker would come up to me an question, "Does this mean 209 of eac…

The non Express stores were long known as poor performers, even if they were new openings. The newish CEO has razor sharp skills and keeps making decisions that long ago should hav…

Uber is all of us on HN. And we need to speak up that greed is bad. We need to not associate with greed. We need to recognize that this new economy-thing-that's-so-new-we-don't-hav…

I had tears when I read the entire thing. I thought it was well written The absolute best article (which I have a photo copy of) is this one [1] about a 14 year old boy at a baseba…

My success at ending conversations successfully greatly improved once I took formal training in personality types [1] Stick a dozen or two in a room and get a good facilitator to e…

I enjoy reading what and how you write. Which is why I enjoy HN. The genie is out of the bottle. My health suffers if I think and express myself like you just did, although very el…

I was once asked to hand over mail from a certain address in Weschester NY so they could copy the OE, both sides. I refused. I, like my peers, take privacy and sanctity to the abso…

I would love to see this work. Really love to. This has as big of a chance to improve humanity as wikipedia, I believe. The elimination of news curators will reduce other people th…

I had an interesting self discovery. After I insulted a coworker for not being able to think for himself; always parroting Rush, he challenged me to listening to his radio show for…