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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 essay "The way of the Gang" to understand why grown men do this kind of thing.

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 tech should not allow itself to become.

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 hear.

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 problem from that end.

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 play really tells you how the NYT leans.

“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 meantime, there have been lessons learned and we are going to fund organizations that focus on glass ceiling issues,’ ” Ms. Katz said.

Just donate to my rainbow coalition...

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 this out. We can all clearly see this for what it is.

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 local t.v. stations were back online, but a lot more people had battery powered radios than battery powered televisions. :-)

It definitely makes sense in an emergency, especially if it can be coupled with a low-power mode similar to the one on the new Samsung S6's.

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 for a segment of the population who we really, really don't want unemployed (veterans and other folks who are too versed in the application of force to live a quiet civilian life.)

It's not good, but I'm not sure the alternative is better.

Same thing, same groups.

Same groups behind Donglegate (or Donglewater, however you prefer to call your scandals.)

This would be an awesome pedagogical tool.

I'm a student and often find myself struggling with pseudocode to the point that I end up writing it out by hand and annotating it in a similar fashion on paper.

An argument could probably be made that it worked fairly well in subduing East Germany after WWII.

Genuinely curious, wouldn't EBIT be a more conservative number than EBITDA? Not that it matters in tech, as I assume Depreciation and Amortization are almost nil.

If it's the 30 year old secretary coordinating the shareholder meeting I'm quitting school and pulling a Chris McCandless.

Otherwise, going to be a very interesting thing to watch. Mr. Buffet's love of economic moats will likely help ensure that his successor will not be in a Ballmer-type position.