Reese1379

Just even hint at criticising MICROS~1 and you get voted down, wanna talk to a sex pervert and that's ok on ycombinator.com, you people have some strange priorities.

Here's a link not behind a paywall:

http://canmua.net/world/the-fall-and-rise-of-iridium-882149....

"The sphere could have actually been produced by a natural occurrence known as concretion"

'Concretion: The Enigmatic Stone Spheres of Franz Josef Land'

http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2015/07/stone-spheres-concre...

It's easier to vote someone down rather than formulate a rational premise as to what objectionable in your post.

trigger warning: Churchill did have a lot to be depressed about, one of them being the firebombing of German cities.

http://www.onlinemilitaryeducation.org/posts/10-most-devasta...

edit: It looks like I upset yet another precious snowflake ..

edit #2: Oh, why don't all you precious snowflakes go fuck yourselves ..

This has to be the only tech site where a suggestion to use Linux results in a down vote.

Have they considered upgrading to a Linux distro?

http://distrowatch.com/

It's not baiting, in the wonderful world of work, you can expect to be on the receiving end of such comments. I speak from a position of experience.

"All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek"

http://www.amazon.com/Really-Need-Know-Learned-Watching/dp/0...

Sounds to me like a good test of character. It would be interesting if this self described 'black software engineer' would tell us who the founder/CEO was and the name of the company. Why do all the Black kids sit at the same table at school? Why do all the Asian kids sit at the front of the class? Why is it ok for rap singers to say nigger but not anyone else? I really want to know.

See another African American dude being racially profiled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uTP1fdFu0c

@rawnlq: "We should be more optimistic that all of these UI issues will be figured out once it actually gets adoption."

The future as nightmare more likely. The theme of the video is how this technology is going to further alienate people rather than facilitate communication. You can already see a contemporary version where people everywhere, faces buried in their devices obsessively txting and no doubt looking up their 'friends' on Facebook. Anything but instigate a conversation with the person sitting next to them. See 'The Congress (2013)' for an interesting variation on the theme. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/

I tried, indeed I did try, trice upon a time I didst, sorry, I just can't, I just can't get to the end of the article; reminds me of trying to tackle a Henry James novel in school, one knows one is not going to succeed but regardless one forges ahead in the vain glorious hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel, or at least an end to the paragraph, only to flounder, in a miasmic fugue of cognitive disphoria .. :)

ps: It's a fiction that LSD helped certain people in their creativity. These so-called psychonaut are selling a dangerous form of snakeoil. Terence Mckenna and the rest, after decades communicating with DMT machine elves etc, what have they brought back from the 'other side', absolutely nothing of value. Going on the blurb on Amazon 'Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America' reminds me of 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'. A very interesting section in there on 'Ken Kesey'. He of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ' fame. I don't think Tom Wolfe could have wrote 'Acid Test' if he actually was on LSD.

Beware criticising a Newyorker article round here, they'll never let it go.

I hate to disillusion you, but your parents bank account will have more to do with your advancement than any intrinsic ability. Also if you study the last names of the current elite, you'll notice they are the same as bygone elites.