If you’ve ever had a problem deleting a horizontal line in Microsoft Word,
this post is for you. The answer is something of a trick, as the horizontal
line is not a line (or a graphic), it’s a bottom border.

Removal

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They say you are a composite of your closest friends, and given my ambition
I often grapple with a balance between seeking to surround myself with those
with similar goals and those who I’ve been close with for many decades.

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The impostor syndrome, sometimes called impostor phenomenon or fraud
syndrome, is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to
internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their
competence, those wi…

It’s important to remember something about jobs: every industry is trying as
hard as it can to automate human workers out of existence in order to
maximize profit. And they’re finding some success. We should only expect
that succ…

I’ve always been taught it’s polite to trim emails and type the reply below
the text I’m responding to:

Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> Top-po…

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I am often asked how I square the circle of recognizing that free will
doesn’t exist but still embracing the joys of life, celebrating
achievements, etc.

My usual response is to ask the person to r…

At a recent team meetup in Atlanta I had the chance to talk to someone who
actually enjoyed hearing about my perspective on free will, a moral
framework, and a quasi-universal method of evaluating political
propositions.

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Everyone knows smart people read and lazy people watch TV, but aren’t they
often doing the same thing?

I’m reading Game of Thrones right now, which is an epic fantasy series that
I highly recommend. Being a human, I’m incli…

I have many conservative friends who love to throw this argument at me when
I speak of their lack of compassion for those who are weak, ignorant, or
otherwise powerless. This is how I generally respond.

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I believe that most…

Imagine what would have happened if, on September 13th, 2001, the President
of the United States had said the following:

Congratulations on killing 3,000 defenseless civilians. We will cry today
for the fallen, but we will …