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by cpr 4y ago
That's the dirty secret of the whole education-leading-to-PhD system -- it's only real and useful purpose is to create more educators.
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by cpr 4y ago
Are you kidding me? The greatest American novel of all time? Not worth reading?
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by cpr 4y ago
Don't assume that! When I started undergrad there in '72 (yes, even some generations ago), if you didn't have close to an 800 verbal SAT, you had to take a remedial writing course as a frosh.
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by cpr 4y ago
Wait till the weekend IBM tried to contact Gary Killdal for an OS for their new PC, and buy Seattle Software's CP/M clone to license to IBM before Bill did. ;-) Oh, wait, that's not noSQL skills, that's people skills.
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by cpr 4y ago
Damn, I let em.com go by accident way back in the early 90's.
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by cpr 4y ago
> but not before unshackling a prison full of reprobates and racists to rejoin the site by un-suspending their accounts. Let me fix that for you: > but not before unshackling a prison full of [people we disagree with] to rejoin the si
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by cpr 4y ago
I just discovered the amazing Ultorg ( https://www.ultorg.com/ ), the commercial version of some serious research done at MIT. It's easily the most powerful database explorer/reporting system ever built. (No connect
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by cpr 4y ago
No, it's available in generic form.
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by cpr 4y ago
The phrase "conspiracy theorist" was invented specifically by the CIA at the time to discredit Warren Commission doubters.
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by cpr 4y ago
Very simple. It would greatly discredit the CIA if their obvious involvement were revealed, even at this great distance.
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by cpr 4y ago
Or the letter in Oswald's handwriting (no name on it) to James Jesus Angleton (head of CIA wetworks), released in the past couple of years, asking him for clarification on what he was expected to do while in Dallas. The guy was simply
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by cpr 4y ago
Where does it say or even imply "rolling out new features to all users at once"?
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by cpr 4y ago
Gatto is a true prophet. See his writings at https://www.johntaylorgatto.com/ (though his site is having some problems, it looks like).
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by cpr 4y ago
Can't some HN folks just get together and send you $100 each so you can buy a great laptop? Happy to on my part...
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by cpr 4y ago
Even if it's true? ;-)
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by cpr 4y ago
Oh, this'll go well, in the state that can barely keep the power on, requiring millions of new electric cars to charge from same grid.
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by cpr 4y ago
You're right in that I'm being lazy and shouldn't have commented without backup data. There's plenty of data out there, but why try to collect if the HN readership's thinking is so mainstream that they'll rejec
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by cpr 4y ago
Just assembled this audible.com list for a friend. These are all in the thriller/action genre. I can put one of these on for 10 hours while driving to our CT place and not even notice the trip. Jack Reacher series by Lee Child Gray Man
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by cpr 4y ago
It can't be contingent on something necessary within itself. Within means being part of the contingency.
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by cpr 4y ago
There's clearly something going on, where the mass of flyover country is waking up to the reality that their overlords are abusing them massively. I don't think we're that far from civil war at this point.
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by cpr 4y ago
A good rebuttal. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-wet-market-theory-re-...
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by cpr 4y ago
Are you kidding? With the incredible censorship exercised by the social media giants, you think we have unfettered voices?
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by cpr 4y ago
And you're holding down Option when choosing "Scaled" in the monitor prefs to see all the options?
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by cpr 4y ago
Use standard Retina (double res, 1920x1080, 60Hz) on my LG 32" 4K displays. Perfect.
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by cpr 4y ago
This was abundantly clear when, e.g., every Trump tweet had the first (always highly negative) replies from a couple of crazy doctor brothers (twins?).
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by cpr 4y ago
Which goes to underline Musk's point that the board doesn't have the interests of shareholders in mind. Clearly, the cabal is not interested in losing control of the public narrative.
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by cpr 4y ago
Several of the absolute best journalists working today, some of whom were more or less canceled elsewhere (e.g., Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Alex Berenson), are featured there, and are making serious money -- enough to hire whole crews to
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by cpr 4y ago
And they're totally interlocked.
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by cpr 4y ago
I think it Just Wasn't Done.
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by cpr 4y ago
Growing up as a 'white bread' kid in the 60's and 70's, I had never had a farm fresh egg, nor local hand-made bacon. So you can imagine my delight when, exactly 40 years ago today on our honeymoon, we stayed with some fr

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