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by delhanty 7y ago
So I read this story and wondered whether there were any undisclosed links between the author (Kate Kelland) and Monsanto. Google led me to sites alleging that this 2017 article and others were written to spec on the instructions of Monsant
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by delhanty 7y ago
Mainly for my own reference when I return to this story with more time, links to Professor Kevin Buzzard's project Xena [0][1] >Basically, Lean can understand mathematics, and can check that it doesn't have any mistakes in. Mos
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by delhanty 7y ago
My personal experience (n == 1) study finds that a couple of Chromium GTF taken sublingually (ie sucked under the tongue) works instantly to improve my mood. I never use picolinate. Sublingual is so that it can cross the blood-brain barrier
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by delhanty 7y ago
See this [0] historical retrospective of IPython (the forerunner of Jupyter) in 2012 by its originator Fernando Pérez: >Let's go back to the beginning: when I started IPython in late 2001, I was a graduate student in physics at CU B
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by delhanty 7y ago
It's nice! I was struck by how rolling back 150 million years ago, South America and Africa were part of the same land mass (that is, the Atlantic Ocean had disappeared) but the British Isles was still separate from Europe.
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It was claimed here [0] >... they continue to build on top of a broken foundation (MongoDB) ...but last I heard Stripe was still running a very outdated version ... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820879
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by delhanty 7y ago
>I just added a weirdly missing short section on plain rational beziers That's great! Thanks for writing and maintaining this document over the years! Coincidentally, I was referencing the section on offsetting [0] just last week a
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by delhanty 7y ago
Well it's not my claim, but I think it must be what John means. Otherwise, as you correctly point out, it's clearly just plain old competitive behavior. Edit: thinking this through, the Automattic sales people aren't stupid,
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by delhanty 7y ago
Hmm, it's implied at least later in the Twitter thread that it's predatory pricing. John's friend Pieter Level's quotes [0] Wikipedia [1] as follows: >"Under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the E
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by delhanty 7y ago
OK, fair enough. I notice that you were working for Wordpress.com in May 2018 and had a run in with John O'Nolan on HN then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17086661 Just disclosing that for you to put your commen
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by delhanty 7y ago
I'm not advocating either way - just curious to hear Matt's take on it.
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And flouride in the water [0], maybe good for your teeth, health effects on the rest of the body unclear ... law of unintended consequences and all that. Folic acid fortification of flour too [1]. Protects against neural-tube defects, heal
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by delhanty 7y ago
Or (for 7) as in [0] >in Japan, Korea and Taiwan 7 is written as ① in the illustration to the right. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7#Evolution_of_the_glyph [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by delhanty 7y ago
Dupe. We covered this about a month back [0]. The link was much better too: Scott Arronson's blog. Also, Knuth/Ben-David's shortened proof [1], announced as a comment on Arronson's blog. [0] https://news.ycom
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by delhanty 7y ago
It would be great to see that on HN, so that non-paywalled articles were considered more authoritative than paywalled articles.
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by delhanty 7y ago
Applications of discrete curvature have been around a while, for example this PDF [0] from 2003, so maybe this paper provides theoretical context for existing work. [0] "Anisotropic Polygonal Remeshing" Pierre Alliez, David Cohen-
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by delhanty 7y ago
I have that book, but regret buying it. Frankly, it's lightweight for a HN audience. The original technical book "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease" by Thomas N. Seyfried and published by Wiley seems pretty accessible to me. I&#x
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by delhanty 7y ago
As the intelligence (rather than the wisdom) of the network (i.e. the whole of humanity connected by the internet) goes up, wouldn't one naively expect the intelligence of individual average human to go down? (Like social insects - an
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by delhanty 7y ago
> ... Part of the vision for Atlas was that one could do companies as easily as getting an m3.medium. We’re getting there. [0] Even though there's a caveat ... >Not legal advice: companies don’t have an Undo button and you probab
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by delhanty 7y ago
>I read this post twice and I'm still not sure I understand what the Stripe nightmare is. Agreed - the text of the leojkwan's blog post is more balanced though. >It sounds like you and your accountant feel you'd have be
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by delhanty 7y ago
>The post mentions that a bridge between open source and proprietary needs to be open source but the add-on itself doesn't? The post isn't very clear, but they way I interpret it is that the Blender add-ons do have to comply wi
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by delhanty 7y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20056864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20052623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038872 https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by delhanty 7y ago
This was insightful from Pieter Levels Twitter: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1054985994838130688 > The accidental thing nobody noticed is how @Cloudflare is suddenly in the best position now to take over
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by delhanty 7y ago
Possible dupe from yesterday perhaps? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 And not a bogus story in my opinion.
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by delhanty 7y ago
Oh - update! I'm living in a farming & fishing village about 800 metres from the nearest combi. After the local village shop shut down, the railway station 7-eleven started sending a van into the village once a week on a Wednesday
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by delhanty 7y ago
Even for HN, these are some of the most empathy-deficient comments that I've ever read. Yes, it's true that there is a huge problem with overwork for the franchisees. But those stores aren't there (just) for you. Imagine this
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by delhanty 7y ago
Marine iguanas, found on Galapagos, are another counter-example to reptiles being strictly meat-eating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_iguana#Feeding >The marine iguana forages almost exclusively on red and gr
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by delhanty 7y ago
Here's another nice article from June 2018 touching on many of the same points: https://hackernoon.com/predictions-from-the-first-ar-os-9440... >The way we organise our physical world is probably more relevant to AR
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by delhanty 7y ago
That's what I thought - @types/three *.d.ts got imported via a script in this PR: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/15597 There's some discussion in there, but the way I read the conclusi
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I had some thoughts of writing some software a bit like that, and would be interested and hearing what would be the feature set for a minimal viable product. * For example, if you could do things like >I cannot for the life of me figure

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