Yes, this seems mostly sourced from that Laphram's Quarterly article. I submitted it to HN a few years ago (although the article was a few years old itself) and

Yes, this seems mostly sourced from that Laphram's Quarterly article. I submitted it to HN a few years ago (although the article was a few years old itself) and there was a bit of a discussion back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12417179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12417179