rglovejoy

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by rglovejoy 9y ago
A former housemaster at Senior House, Jay Keyser, wrote a memoir (Mens et Mania), in which about a quarter of the book was about how much he loathed the place. While reading it, I imagined a version of Animal House where Dean Wormer had to
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by rglovejoy 9y ago
> Less than a decade later, Ms. Evans was chief technology officer of the whole company. So was she partly responsible for Kodak missing the boat on digital cameras?
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How to know you're in a mass hysteria bubble(blog.dilbert.com)
4 points by rglovejoy 9y ago|1 comments
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by rglovejoy 9y ago
Also Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It even has a Robert Heinlein cameo.
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by rglovejoy 9y ago
This project will produce a lot of fairly intelligent drones who will know to color inside the lines. I doubt that any Feynmans will emerge.
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by rglovejoy 9y ago
I actually had a manager tell me that all I do is typing.
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My personal story on the unethical behaviors of the TechCode accelerator(medium.com)
45 points by rglovejoy 10y ago|8 comments
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The Last Broadcast(youtube.com)
1 points by rglovejoy 10y ago|0 comments
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The world's deepest ocean trenches are packed with pollution(economist.com)
220 points by rglovejoy 10y ago|83 comments
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
The only time anyone ever asked to see proof of my degree was when I was buying car insurance and the company was offering a discount for STEM degree holders.
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
I would move to Wyoming and become a cowboy.
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The game industry's disposable workers(polygon.com)
6 points by rglovejoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
Mr. Heinlein addressed these issues some fifty years ago in _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_.
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
And why is Santa Clara County left out?
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
Don't they have internships in the UK?
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
The same thing is true of home electronics: you can have any color you want, so long as it's black.
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Don't waste money on premium gas if your car is made for regular(nytimes.com)
1 points by rglovejoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
My worry about fraud isn't about the mothers, it's about the politicians and suppliers who would run this program. Too many pockets getting in the way.
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the p
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
That's very true. Driving 2300 miles East from Paris will get you to the Ural mountains.
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
But why is it wrong?
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The Mystery of the Melungeons(economist.com)
2 points by rglovejoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
You mean like Japan and India?
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
It's a pretty fair bet that the candidate with a "D" after their name will be the winner in CA/SV.
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/why-do-we-vote-on-a-...
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
>Source? Any recent news from Venezuela.
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If terrorists got hold of a nuclear weapon(worldif.economist.com)
3 points by rglovejoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
In a similar vein, I believe that "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is the most realistic portrayal of the dark ages that I know of.
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by rglovejoy 10y ago
There were cuts in defense spending after the end of the Cold War.
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Why California cities have an incentive to cheat under the new housing plan(latimes.com)
2 points by rglovejoy 10y ago|0 comments

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