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The fact that it has no clearly discernible purpose is evidence for it being something to be enjoyed for aesthetics, spiritual purposes, or, most likely I think, entertainment. Att…

The DAK Industries Catalog is a wild masterpiece of copywriting. One carefully-curated product per page, with no table of specifications or even a price box, just densely informati…

Choplifters of the world unite and take over

I agree, robotaxis do not belong in LA, at least culturally. The collective suffering of working-class commuters ascending and descending the income gradient on packed freeways is …

I was not as aware of all the drama that happened before I got there (August 1999) except for reading Stormy Weather* and hearing the weird twice-daily all-office pages for Todd Po…

If you’re interested, I worked for a short time on Daikanana and have some thoughts on this topic, some of which match up to themes in John’s book: https://www.cracked.com/personal…

I noticed that Evan O’Dorney’s generals was chaired by Bhargava and this question was asked: What is Brauer's theorem? [I had no idea and they moved on] He clearly should have read…

Very much so — this was looking at graduation, so even its most recent data from 2015 represented students who applied to college no later than spring of 2011. Since then, computer…

Hey, Matthew. I have some bad news: I can’t read this article without a Medium account. This is probably going to be fatal to its hopes of being widely read via HN.

One of the most memorable moments of my career was when I joined a project and, the very first day, had the equivalent of a “showrunner” sit me and another engineer down and pitch …

When I started a real estate startup, it was because I had gotten the wall version of the Thomas Bros. map — of course! — and plotted LA’s median home prices, crime and school stat…

Ken Nordine also lent his unique narrative stylings to a game from the LaserDisc era of arcade video games, in 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKyWNEGh_yk&t=30s It's hard to …

Sure; like the song says, the village of Motunui is all you need. But the "render just one frame" just means that package is a cut-down version of the "Animation" package which let…

Right, score inflation alongside grade inflation. The administrators of the GMAT have an answer to that: https://www.gmac.com/why-gmac/gmac-news/gmnews/2017/july-201... It says tha…

> "Academic researchers say that uptick is a sign of grade inflation, not of smarter students." I don't think this is right. There is good evidence that the highest percentiles of …

Productivity has skyrocketed since the 1970s in the durable-goods sector, but not so much in the rest of the economy: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/tfp-and-great-sta..…