Bulkington

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by Bulkington 13y ago
Agree with most ofmyour points, and I even find that my boss hectors me much less now after hours than he did before I went remote(and his non-stop office interruptions were the reason I moved off-site, so big win there). But I think I&#x27
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Seriously, I get a kick out of weekend HN. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Because they lack the ability to rewind their lives and change the decisions that resulted in their being trapped by obligations and scrambling to get by at age 30 or 40 or 50? And, instead of providing substantial adult job retraining assi
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Granted the author was a sad drunk, and perhaps just a second-rate intelligence who could string together some pretty syllables, but I've always found this useful: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
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by Bulkington 13y ago
>ad hominem Except this is a political discussion, so the text isn't truly the subject. It is relevant that Putin is a KGB gangster AND that he's claiming the moral high ground AND that he's protecting a Syrian hand-me-dow
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by Bulkington 13y ago
> pretty good Depends on you feel about sex and drugs and rock'n'roll and homicidal transvestites. Worth catching as a cultural artifact. Cringe-level is very, very high for 2013 viewer. http://www.imdb.com/titl
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Key term: administrative subpoena. Judges, we don't need no stinkin' judges. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/administrative-subp... For the P. Simon inclined, rather than just pointing to t
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Seriously, no one mentions the lingerie section? http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2011/10/catalog-15-more-sl...
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Didn't mean to say polygraphs are random, but that the US jusice system is so out whack that once someone is under suspicion, conviction (for something) has little to do with guilt or innocence on initial grounds.
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by Bulkington 13y ago
>they've been wrong again and again... So how can you know how to cheat them? But if they are any good, then surely the technicians recognize false negatives. "Hah! You're trying to cheat the polygraph! That's a crime
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Can we officially retire this discussion, apres anniversary? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3474526
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by Bulkington 13y ago
The immediate and poisonous issue is not being recognized or rewarded. Typically you're better off by moving on sooner rather than later, becuase it's unlikely you're going to stanch the organizational entropy, no matter that
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Vanity, mainly, along with the fun of pulling and exploring a title, and the feel and smell of a volume; and as others have mentioned, much of my scholastic head start came from the books in our family library. Was I precocious, or just a c
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Legit concern for a nuclear bomb on an American soil? Plug that into the decision matrix. It's the only possble justification I can come up with for kill lists and domestic spying. Not even the 9/11 attack justifies current scope
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by Bulkington 13y ago
Except police/prosecutors can grill subjects of investigations for hours. Annoy a politician or public official and a journalist's interview is over. An interview is a chess match: It has to be strategic, and even if the subject a
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by Bulkington 13y ago
"It's completely unbelievable." Entirely believable. Without access to the security apparatus, and without being able to make sense of what little has been revealed, what else are the news media going to chatter on about? The
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by Bulkington 13y ago
As is often mentioned on HN: in times of great distress/confusion/boredom/pessimism, stop up the intertubes and get some exercise. Fresh fruit and vegetables are good, too. (So are junior-college girls, but I don't need the bad karma.)
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by Bulkington 13y ago
I'd always heard the blackjack story was cover for a new silent partner--the kind you don't break your promises to. And those deals aren't in writing either.
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by Bulkington 14y ago
I, who grew up in Texas, was recently in a truckstop in Sweden (don't ask) and the lunch special was: Tex-Mex Buffet!
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by Bulkington 14y ago
To borrow from a US Supreme Court Justice's famous phrase regarding obscenity, I know smart when I see it. I too went to a reputedly top tier universtity (because I didn't want to go college and applied only there, but my father had the las
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by Bulkington 14y ago
As a journalist, I am biased, and I agree with the parent comment. But the more significant problem is the demise of journalistically savvy publishers. Content is not a priority, period. Unless, of course, you're talking about 'content mark
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by Bulkington 14y ago
1. The Three Musketeers, to teach the young about bravery and comradeship. 2. Catch-22, to teach you to recognize and reject bureaucratic momemtum, and to resist it -- to bravely run away... 3. One Hundred Years of Solitude, to remind us th