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If you follow the link to his page "I'm upset...Here is why", you can see that this person has a significant degree of "crankiness". These people through their
by gver 11y ago
If you follow the link to his page "I'm upset...Here is why", you can see that this person has a significant degree of "crankiness". These people through their perhaps not deliberate obfuscation, often manage to trick the mathematically naive into thinking there is substance there - "it is so hard and confusing, it must be real math."
It is a disservice to have links like this on Hacker News.
- spacehome 11y agoI tried, but I don't think I have it in me to read that wall of text. What specifically made you think he was cranky?
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- mathattack 11y agoThat's two links away. Do we really need to hold HN to such a high standard?
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- SerpentJoe 11y agoThe parent isn't saying the author is cranky, like ornery, he's saying he's a crank. The link being referred to [0] seems to be a classic piece of crankery meandering from the solution to global warming to perceived slights against the author on Internet forums and who knows what else. The question then, knowing this, is whether the OP link is quality content? [0] http://settheory.net/life http://settheory.net/life