hindenburg

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by hindenburg 3y ago
This is baloney, and it's pernicious baloney. If you're going to cite a YouTube video of TV news as your source... I hardly know what to say. Any large dog can be dangerous. They are, after all, carnivorous predators. Proper tra
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by hindenburg 3y ago
The article is a little bit breathless about this work as though evidence of solar system instability is completely novel and unexpected, but investigation in the area using simulation isn't exactly unprecedented. Gerry Sussman and Jac
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by hindenburg 4y ago
Please, elucidate. I'd love to hear about all the superior programming environments developed in non-capitalist economies.
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by hindenburg 9y ago
"Senior House has always had a heavy contingent of counter culture types, much more so than other dorms at MIT," -- ha ha. They nuked Bexley first for a reason. Ghetto -- suburb!
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by hindenburg 10y ago
You make some specific claims here that sound a little odd to this LISP and assembly language hacker. Assembly language doesn't provide any datatypes. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide any type checking. LISP does.
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by hindenburg 11y ago
According to the article, Dr. Reiffel said, 'The Air Force wanted a mushroom cloud so large it would be visible on earth.' That seems a very odd thing for a physicist to say, given that of course a mushroom cloud wouldn't for
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by hindenburg 11y ago
Wouldn't it be fun if we could set up a prediction market so that we could all place bets on whether Mr. Wright is or is not an inventor of Bitcoin?
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by hindenburg 11y ago
I completely agree. I'm surprised that the HN community, which so often points out poor science in other articles, in this case seems to include a lot of people posting personal anecdotes about their diets. For those people, I think i
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by hindenburg 11y ago
Even though I've never met the author or her brother, I actually feel relieved reading that; thanks for finding it and pointing it out.
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by hindenburg 11y ago
Umm, does anybody else cringe at the public documentation of this person's problems? The author hasn't spoken to her brother since 2013 -- so how does she know he wants his problems to be made public to all the world? She even g