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.

Google turns up nothing by that name. It does turn up a book by that author called "The Way of Men". Is that what you meant?

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.

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

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

Bicycle riders only produce a few hundred watts, while an average kilowatt/hr is worth 12 cents.

It's kilowatt-hour, not kilowatt/hour. Multiply, not divide.

It's kilowatt*hour not kilowatt-hour. Multiply, not subtract.

Haha, thought the same.

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.

It is still possible, here and there to "read law" to qualify oneself to take the bar examination. It is definitely rare these days.

Caryl Chessman - The Birdman - passed the bar after reading the law in Alcatraz.

I've met some attorneys that I don't regard as being very bright. I don't think that's ever been the case for anyone I've ever met with a graduate physics degree.

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.

Nah, GMail was good. It still is, to be honest, compared to free webmail alternatives, but it keeps downgrading itself.

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. :-)