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BTW, this is where I show my powerlevel and burn the account. Nice knowing you, HN. I learned a lot.

It's a later "chapter." The man writes essays, and he tried to string them into a book. The attempt is laughable, but the essays stand on their own.

This will be dismissed as racist, pseudo-intellectual drivel by the effete silicon set, but anyone wanting to understand why this happens ought to read Jack Donovan's excellent essay "The way of the Gang" to understand why grown men do this kind of thing.

We're having fun at this, but I think you may have just found a way to better gamify wellness initiatives...

Hear hear.

It's really not. People used to pass the bar without ever going to a law school.

The entire profession has been captured by educational institutions. It's a posterchild for what tech should not allow itself to become.

Step 1. Get admitted to MIT

Step 2. ????

Step 3. Profit.

This is a really cool story, but if the OP isn't coming from somewhere as highly regarded, it may not be the best thing to hear.

I think the last UI decision google got right was the search box on the main page.

Aw hell no. It's hard enough to concentrate in a cubicle.

I think it would be better that the landlords were not the beneficiaries of this type of subsidy, though. I'd prefer to see them have to compete, and this doesn't attack the problem from that end.

This is awesome.

No more searching for quick workarounds to share notebooks with people who don't know how to use a command line.

Step 1: get into MIT...

Looks like that train has sailed. :-)

It reads like a precocious high-schooler wrote it. I stopped reading when I got to that paragraph.

Some of us think the system can't be fixed--we just want ours. And that's okay.