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by Bulkington 12y ago
RE: Baltimore Who knew there's a vibrant ubran culture devoted to riding wheelies on motorcycles down major avenues, with crowds gathered on the sidewalk and all waiting for the police chase to begin? I recommend the movie reviewed bel
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by Bulkington 12y ago
Should one -- moi, specifically, a journalist -- upvote the approved anti-narrative? In terms of making a modest living, I don't see much middle ground. Both sell newspapers/pageviews. There's all the room in the world betwee
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by Bulkington 12y ago
Agreed, mainly because the period is so alien to many sub-40s Americans today. Also resonant: Islam, race, ugly American politics. It's an easy read, written by Alex Haley, who also wrote Roots. (Don't read the book (Roots) if you
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by Bulkington 12y ago
Since it's Saturday night as I write, I'll bite: 'alien test'? If humans or our near relations were to land on a planet in a distant galaxy and come across any symbols they could even take a wild guess at, their reaction
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by Bulkington 12y ago
The Box is more than a history of container transport and its world-changing impact. It's a real lesson for entrepreneurs: Visionary takes on tradition-bound oligopoly; regulators can't cope with radical concept; international sta
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by Bulkington 12y ago
But can they beat chickens at tic-tac-toe? http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000001595360/tick-t...
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by Bulkington 12y ago
Well, not to get myself flagged as anti-AI terrorist but: Tldr; If one believes life right now is already one eternal torment And if one reads about Roko's Basilisk Then wouldn't one be compelled to fight the development of AI and
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by Bulkington 12y ago
I would add a number 8: If you're interested in public service and would like to be either a lawmaker or a government official--but the above passion/connections still hold. (That's the value-neutral version compared to &#x27
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by Bulkington 12y ago
Strictly a casual 'soccer' fan in US, but here are a few problems for adoption of the game--again, as an American sports fan, journalist and media manager. And please, help me understand (and I promise not get into the usual &#x27
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by Bulkington 12y ago
While I doubt that many 75-year-olds waste time at work perusing HN, the article misses, downplays or misunderstands several important points: The justices' often use apparently clueless analogies to prompt the attorneys during oral ar
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by Bulkington 12y ago
Drifting even further afield than the above, but since it's the weekend on HN: I remember watching a 50s era SF-based film during a Hitchcock festival (Vertigo? Read Window?)in the City, and the streets in the movie were torn up for r
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by Bulkington 12y ago
As old as the family, the village. Forgive Western bias, but here's Aristotle: ...that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, i
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by Bulkington 12y ago
Not that there's much of a San Joaquin Valley aquifer left to ruin by fracking, but politics and the sheer cost of trying to do business in California should mean the Monterrey Shale will be held in reserve. (Personally, I think I&#x27
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by Bulkington 12y ago
It (caution/paranoia/hypocrisy/indoctrination) runs both ways: “If I’d known it was someone from the NSA, I’d have gone and shot myself,” [Wolf] says.
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by Bulkington 12y ago
"Shit... charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500. I took the mission. What the hell else was I gonna do?" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes
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by Bulkington 12y ago
Irony is an exercise in cleverness. I can speak only about US pop culture, but to consider Stewart and Colbert, clever and amusing as they are, in the avant garde of political thought is scary. Facile isn't wise, and for some reason wi
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Is it possible for anyone who thinks for a living to truly 'segment'? The best I can hope is really intense distraction: mountain biking, sailing, even golf. It's amazing how little I consider anything else while playing golf
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Seriously, kids. You don't remember the good old days? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Soviet_Unio... Otherwise, (local politics, human rights aside) one shouldn't cross a frontier without co
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by Bulkington 13y ago
From the wikipedia entry on The Myth of Sisyphus: Does the realization of the absurd require suicide? Camus answers: "No. It requires revolt." He then outlines several approaches to the absurd life. http://en.wikipedia.
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by Bulkington 13y ago
> Nuclear is an outdated cold-war technology that won't compete with solar economically. Source? Or did I not catch the sarcasm? Or am I reading this wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_so
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Professors.
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Police beatings have long been a staple of movies, theatre, literature. In reality, police beatings have been a staple of the exercise of authority since Kubrick's representative ape picked up that bone. Selection bias: There's al
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Influential. Mash-up. Fusion. Outside the box. Not a revolution, but a diversionary mind bender in its day. A format much imitated since.
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by Bulkington 13y ago
My bro-psych take, Dreaded Personal Anecdotes division: In sports, prior to big games, I tended to doze in the locker room; my brother threw up. He'd be hair-on-fire ready for mortal combat; I hoped the other team wouldn't show up
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Re: FCRA and bureaucracy The US federal gov't outsources a large portion of its employment background checks to a company that the FTC has charged with violating FCRA. The contractor settled for $2.6 million and kept its contracts, cle
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Classic bureaucracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_provision
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Get drunk. Write it, and be complete. Go to bed. Sleep poorly. Get up before alarm. Caffeinate. Move your rousing conclusion to the top and try again, picking off your darlings. You're finished when you can't stand yourself anymor
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Aside: the ship using the AM sank. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism The more interesting questions: Was the ship's sinking the loss of a one-off prototype? Was the device blamed/abandoned, e
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Drone/autonomous vehicle impact on supply chain discussed here on Saturday, ahead of 60 Mins piece. http://www.ccjdigital.com/self-driving-planes-trains-trucks-... Got the Reddit treatment here: http://www.r
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Trade journo here (not tech). No need for blacklists in some/many/most segments. Upset corp. hatchetman calls publisher, says either the offending reporter goes or our ads do. I haven't seen a whole lot of publishing backbone

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