Benjamin Smith
@HashCons
Computer scientist. Supercomputer pseudo-scientist. Former U.S. Navy cryptologic technician.
Wake up every day and ask yourself "Am I American enough?" youtube.com/watch?v=HK18Y0…
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Installing Duck Tape Tires! On My Mini Jeep Gokart From Tsc
Why can't they make hilarious action movies like Speed anymore? That surround sound in the elevator sequence is worth the price of the ticket. It was 1994. Nobody today would believe Jeff Daniels as a SWAT team bomb expert. Risking your life for Sandra Bullock? No thank you.
I hope people don't read the 70% stat and think those people were studying for junk subjects. That's real people, with real degrees, in our country, with talent completely going to waste. However bad you think it is, it's much worse.
70% of college grads *are not* working a full-time job in their field of study. Amazon just laid off 30,000 Americans and then hired 10,000 more H-1Bs from India. We have to get honest about our labor market policy, and what I want to see from President Trump is exactly what…
What, are you still paying some sleazebag to make you $5 coffee? Pure caffeine is practically free. Ten years ago I bought a lifetime supply for about $30. It came in a big resealable bag, but I've never even refilled this glass jar. Weighing it works best, and it doesn't…
Whatever happened to Nan Woods, who played the beautiful Iowa girl in China Beach? Internet says she just quit acting after her character got blown up during the Tet offensive.
Thanks to @Thurdeye and @SteveContiDAGOD for getting that song in my head. The Europe logo on the album cover is embossed, because why wouldn't it be?
I've got a theory. The biggest problems often follow a pattern: Everyone can see it, but nobody will talk about it. In this case, the "Problem" is clearly spraypainted everywhere. youtube.com/watch?v=rFODLJ…
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This Place Was America’s Vacation Capital - Now It’s in Ruins
Listening to The Tornados, and pondering whether watching House was/is more valuable to someone than studying for a phd. Assuming you obtain the knowledge from whatever the required courses are, I lean heavily towards YES.
Tried out the new Grokipedia for a few obscure topics. I'm confident it will improve quickly. Hey, there is now a link to my github instead of a dead link on wikipedia! If you can find it, you've earned my everlasting respect.
Remember the movie "Boiler Room" about a ambitious college dropout who gets a job as a shady stockbroker? "How are they able to pay so much?" "Don't ask." How can fresh graduates, from a country that can't afford plumbing, afford to find jobs in the most expensive cities on…
The H-1B visa program in a nutshell: • H-1B sponsorship approved through an IT body shop called “Babatek” • The job doesn’t actually exist • Other body shops pile on: “We’ll help get you to America, give you food & housing—but we’ll take a 30% cut of your salary.”
"I can read the pictures. Believe me they're not for foreigners, they're for guys like ME!" An 80s tv-movie about a guy faking that he could read. He becomes a truck driver, and... I've got it queued up right before the Nabisco commercial break. youtu.be/nNcQm_bCvbY?si…
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Bluffing It (1987)
Last time I was in Toronto they said the garbage men were on strike. It looked like any normal American city, but my friend and I posed with some trash to commemorate the occasion.
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