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by repairing it
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> Thanks, I didn’t dig deep enough to find the boy buried at the bottom. That definitely clears things up.

...there's a boy buried at the bottom? i hope that's a typo!

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> I don’t understand the title? How do you get ‘rejected’ by Code Academy? It’s not a ‘boot amp’ with an application process. You either do the free lessons offered, or pay up for one of the ‘Pro’ level tiers.

From his blog:

> I've applied to work at Codecademy three times, once in 2014, again in 2015, and most recently in 2020. I've been rejected all three times. I wanted to prove to myself I was capable of building something like it, so I decided to build my own version.

Comment · 5 years ago
> Zuckerberg wants to be the villain from that Ready Player One book but without any of the hassle of taking it over

He probably sees himself as the misunderstood, genius creator of The Oasis rather than the conniving corporate bureaucrat in that movie (I never read the book version)

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conservation of energy can be broken if Temporal symmetry can be broken.
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Content that is inauthentic and/or misrepresenting the origin / source is definitely troll material
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The article literally talks about retired generals tweeting.

that sounds incredibly mundane

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Why is the area referred to as "the west Indies" unless he thought it was India
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Again, Columbus was not a very clever man.
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Are you suggesting that we should take moral cues from our enemies?

Or that normalizing peacetime assassinations won't have an obvious destabilizing effect?

Comment · 5 years ago
Assassinating scientists makes you happy?

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