thomasmarriott
Re:Fuck Your Miracle Year
on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:49PM (#31062207)
Benjamin Franklin.
Re:Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost
on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:58PM (#31029686)
No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time – And What They Did Next by Chris Wright
Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II ...
on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:43PM (#30364734)
'...Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should We continue to fight, not only would it result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization...'
— Hirohito, August 14,1945
Re:The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
on Saturday November 23, 2019 @02:35PM (#21615992)
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
-Einstein
Re:We Sold Pando
on Sunday October 27, 2019 @09:10PM (#21373559)
Jake Lodwick = Cofounder of Vimeo (acquired by IAC), first dev of CollegeHumor (acquired by IAC), and a serial investor.
Re:We Sold Pando
on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:12PM (#21373355)
"An acquisition is always a failure" — Pando, 2013
"An acquisition, or an aqui-hire, is always a failure. Either the founders failed to achieve their goal, or – far likelier – they failed to dream big enough. The proper ambition for a tech entrepreneur should be to join the ranks of the great tech companies, or, at least, to create a profitable, independent company beloved by employees, customers, and shareholders."
https://pando.com/2013/04/02/an-acquisition-is-always-a-fail...
Re:Alex Honnold's next summit: the rest of his life
on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:53AM (#20961240)
Great book:
"No More Worlds to Conquer: Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time – And What They Did Next"
by Chris Wright
Re:A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crises
on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:14AM (#20631928)
Re:Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
on Saturday June 22, 2019 @09:29PM (#20252718)
Ironic: "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." —Gates, 1995
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#The_Road_Ahead_(199...
"At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities."
Exactly — THE WAY OUT IS UP:
Re:The Baghdad Battery
on Sunday April 28, 2019 @01:57PM (#19772562)
Re:How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:11AM (#19642145)
"I am persuaded no constitution was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire and self government."
Full context of "empire": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Liberty
Re:Jerry Merryman, an Inventor of the Calculator Dies
on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @08:58PM (#19315865)
Gig'em.
Jerry Merryman, an Inventor of the Calculator Dies
Re:Microsoft Workers Demand It Drop $450M U.S. Army Contract
on Saturday February 23, 2019 @02:22AM (#19232193)
Accepting the truth is far less painful than rediscovering it.
Re:$250 Trillion in Debt: The World’s Post-Lehman Legacy
on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:14PM (#17983144)
"The system is insolvent. No one knows what to do next — except repeat the insanity till the next bubble blows. That'll be the one. The big one."
— Gekko, Wall Street 2, 2010
#thewayoutisup
Re:Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86
on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:13AM (#17165713)
Live long and prosper, Captain.
Re:Productivity Growth in the US Continues to Decline
on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:48PM (#16633511)
The way out is up.
Re:My new favorite book of all time
on Monday January 29, 2018 @12:20PM (#16258923)
"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." —Franklin Pierce Adams
Re:The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards
on Saturday May 06, 2017 @11:14AM (#14280577)
Re:Twitter’s CEO Says It’s Having an ‘Arab Spring’ Moment in the U.S
on Friday February 17, 2017 @03:11AM (#13666736)
No.
Re:Linus Torvalds: Successful projects are 99% perspiration and 1% inn...
on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:42AM (#13659128)
Fuck yea.
Re:Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses
on Saturday October 22, 2016 @07:19PM (#12771042)
Abhorrent.
Re:A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:23PM (#12665145)
'Next year you'll say last year was so much better.'
Re:Against Minimalism
on Monday September 12, 2016 @09:51AM (#12479647)
'It's really simple. We come up with a product. We try to tell everybody about it. Customer tell us by how they vote with their wallets whether we're on track or not. If enough of them say 'yes,' we get to come to work tomorrow.' — SJ
Re:Why cities keep growing, corporations and people die, and life gets...
on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:55PM (#12369590)
Scale is underrated.
Apollo 11 3D Scan – 1 trillion measurements
Re:Is ‘grit’ overrated in explaining student success?
on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @10:40AM (#11770071)
No.