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This is how important networking is
Take the racial part of the article as gospel truth, with a grain of salt, or disregard it entirely. But read this part and burn it into your memory: Favoritism is almost universal in today’s job market. In interviews with hundreds of people on this topic, I found that all but a handful used the [...]
Aren’t bullets made of metal?
The whole print-a-gun-out-of-plastic thing is understandably freaking people out. But I have a question about the following: Security checkpoints, background checks, and gun regulations will do little good if criminals can print plastic firearms at home and bring those firearms through metal detectors with no one the wiser,” Source:This Is The World’s First Entirely 3D-Printed [...]
Client-overlords? That’s why I’m a plaintiff’s lawyer
Funny thing about representing injured folks – they’re generally grateful for my help and don’t expect me to shine shoes, fetch coffee, or kiss ass. Ivey advises law students to hang out with B-school students, who will be “your client-overlords and referral sources” after graduation. “If you want to make rain later, learn about their [...]
And that’s kind of the point of killing RSS
Note, of course, that it’s the big guys with all the traffic that want to kill it. Without RSS readers, the long tail would be cut off. The rich would get richer: only the big-name sites get regular readership without RSS, so the smaller sites would only get scraps of occasional Twitter links from the [...]
Great Quora post on shutting up the Holocaust deniers
Have you checked out Quora? If not, you should. It’s a great site where people answer lots of questions about lots of topics. (I love answering questions about asbestos and mesothelioma.) This one was e-mailed to me and I loved it because people who try and revise history really irritate me. No Nazi was ever [...]
