December 2009
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In re Typewriters
Stories about typewriters seem to be popping up all over the place this December. I thought I’d collect them here.
Cormac McCarthy, author extraordinaire, put his Olivetti Lettera 32 up for auction at Christie’s to benefit charity. It sold for over $250,000 after he had knocked out more than 5 million words on it over 50 years. His friend bought him a replacement typewriter for less...
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“This is one of those rare cases where the laissez-faire approach is incorrect....”
– Obama’s Billions Could Render Furnaces Obsolete: Kevin Hassett - Bloomberg.com
You must be on the right track when even a policy analyst from the American Enterprise Institute, a fairly conservative think tank that maintains a strict free-market mindset, encourages government intervention in order...
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I live in a van down by Duke University -... →
How do I afford grad school without going into debt? A ‘94 Econoline, bulk food and creative civil disobedience…
I applaud this student. And I probably used to park a Volvo station wagon where he’s got his Econoline van.
This whole thing reminds me of the time my great uncle was very confused by Krzyzewskiville and thought there was a dorm room shortage on campus. We had to...
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“There’s a growing concern now about robot ethics, but what’s missing...”
– Robots of future may need a good lawyer— San Francisco Chronicle
This article discusses some fascinating issues in the inevitable field of robo-litigation, though the title mistakenly suggests that robots need to lawyer-up as opposed to the humans interacting with them. I think the former...
